United States Inches Toward Real Freedom
Well, I’m back from my vacation abroad, so let’s start up again with some short, but welcome news! New York officially started issuing same-sex marriage licenses yesterday, just days after…
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Flight
April and I are on our way home from Halifax. We woke up at 4;15 to catch the shuttle, which after a short cab ride to catch it was probably…
Leaving books for strangers is a “thing”
So says my daughter. She was coming home from work on the subway the other night and found this book on the seat. I love that people do this!
Haunted Friday
On Friday April and I went to Kensington and its haunted mansion. It’s a historic house from the 1800s, redone into a haunted house and theme park with rides. The…
Follow us on Twitter
After holding out for years Things Are Good is finally on Twitter. Now you can find out when new posts (and thus new good news) are published using your twitter…
More on abortion and Hudak
FACT: Planned Parenthood is funded, in part, through LHINs and the Government of Ontario. FACT: Tim Hudak is pro-life and has signed a pledge to defund abortion. FACT: Tim Hudak…
Harry Potter in Syndey
Just after looking at the Sydney tar ponds, April and I watched another sort of dark magic: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ . I even had to…
PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here…
Readin’? We don’t need no stinking readin’
Proving that one Ford is as dangerous (and dumb) as the other, Doug Ford claims that there are more libraries than Tim Hortons in his area. He also wrongly said…
Have the Taliban Changed their Tune on Women’s Rights?
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I find that the subject of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a difficult one to engage with. To some, the shocking standard to which women…
More on the Integrity of the Comprehensive Approach
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I just had a conversation regarding my last post with a NATO Public Diplomacy official. In short, my argument was that in RC-N the ANP…
Notes from Mazar e Sherif: Tactical Challenges, Strategic Quagmire
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I am writing this on my phone from a c160 flying from mazar e sharif to herat where we have spent the past 48hrs. This…
First Impressions from ISAF HQ in Kabul
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I am in Afghanistan as part of a NATO TOLA tour. On Friday the six participants met in Brussels for a day of briefings at…
The Munk Debates, Henry Kissinger and Polite Company
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Disptach blog For the past few years I have worked on the Munk Debates. Officially, I am the Research Director. Unofficially, I help out however I can…
Four Ways to Reinvigorate the Canadian Foreign Policy Debate
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog Last fall, I participated in a workshop hosted by L’Idée Fédérale, a think tank in Montreal headed by one of our Roundtable bloggers, André Pratte.…
Welcome to opencanada.org
For the past eight months I have had the thrill of working with the CIC to answer the following question: what if the CIC wanted to build the online hub…
Confirmation that Rob Ford is a moron
This is insanity. Ford campaigned on a promise not cut city services and now he’s about to make $740 million in major service cuts. Including, eliminating 2,000 subsidized daycare spots,…
Tim Hudak: A wolf in PC clothing
A friend reminded me of this today – are we really surprised at Hudak’s dodgy behaviour this week? “Like his rhetoric, Hudak’s delivery often seems calculated and over-rehearsed. Worse, he’s…
Tim Hudak is “gutless”
From the Ottawa Citizen: “There’s nothing wrong with being pro-choice or pro-life, both are honourable positions. What is wrong is a potential premier dodging the issue. That’s gutless and misleading…
I’ve figured out RIM’s problem
Here’s a look at RIM’s stock price over the last 5 years, noting when I entered and left the company. Coincidence? However, noting where I bought RIM stock and where…