Randy Hillier and the art of the non-apology apology
In 2001, humourist Bruce McCall wrote a piece in the New York Times called the Perfect Non-Apology Apology. It is commonly used when someone needs to apologize but doesn’t feel…
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The train wreck that is PC candidate Kevin Gaudet
Earlier today I tweeted a video featuring Gaudet telling, um, I’ll be generous here and call it an untruth. In case you’re unfamiliar with Gaudet, he’s the guy that dressed…
Oops Tim Hudak did it again!
Yesterday, Kinsella posted a shot of the Hudak bus parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant. Tim just can’t seem to learn from his mistakes. Take a look at…
Tim Hudak loses the support of even more women
Said they feel “used.” A Leamington mom who spent months with nine others protesting when a convicted sex offender moved next to their neighbourhood elementary school is accusing Tory Leader…
File Complaints About Tim Hudak’s Robo-Calls
Stop Robo-Calls from the Tim Hudak Conservatives
To Grunfeld
I’m proposing a new word for the internet lexicon: To Grunfeld: To carefully omit a portion of a person’s statement so that your version of the statement is the polar…
Libya: What Was Canada’s Role In This Crime?
Libya. What a mess we've made.
High-frequency trading
Ran across this good explanation of the “high-frequency trading” term thrown around a lot: Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading. The impact on the markets of HFT is very…
On shared-use paths
I love them, for the most part. They are much safer for cyclists. However, the city of Halifax Regional Municimouthful does not do them properly. Shared-use paths have people going…
Not all NDP candidates got the message
Yesterday, I posted this about Andrea Horwath ordering her candidates to stop “trading on” Jack Layton’s name. And to stop trying to “benefit from his legacy.” So I was very…
Canada Mulls Ending Gay Blood Ban
Hot on the heels of the United Kingdom, which ended their gay blood donor ban in favour of a one year deferral last week, Canadian Blood Services is now mulling…
Andrea Horwath: Do as I say, not as I do
NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, rightly told her candidates to stop “trading on” Jack Layton’s name. Too bad she didn’t heed her own advice. Putting her face on the banner was…
GOP debate: the ugly face of conservatism. Also, never fly on 9/11 if your skin is brown.
The horror continues. Here are two items that bring the American psyche post-9/11 into instant, ugly focus. At the GOP debate tonight, the crowd loudly cheered a suggestion that society…
Word to the bland, blasé and banal – apathy is living death
A song came on the radio today that I have loved all my life – except this time, it was a cover, and it spoke something to me that I…
The media on Tim Hudak and abortion
“Hudak waffles on abortion issue” (Toronto Star, July 19, 2011) “When pressed by reporters Monday, Mr.Hudak refused to answer whether he still considers himself “pro-life.” (National Post, July 19, 2011)…
Why Tim Hudak Is Done
Tim Hudak's Conservatives get caught making mass calls from ... New Brunswick.
Tea Party Republican Debate
Hey, there’s another thrilling GOP “debate” taking place tonight in Tampa, Florida. This one is billed as the “Tea Party Republican Debate”… whatever that means. Presumably, the candidates will have…
Transit Is For Suckers
If there’s one lesson Canadians can learn from the latest Stats Can study into public transit, it’s that losers take the bus. A whopping 82% of commuters know that the…
Dads Win Right To Remove Surrogate From Birth Certificate
Two same-sex fathers in Saskatchewan have won the right to amend their child’s birth certificate, removing the name of a surrogate mother. The surrogate, identified only as Mary, carried the…