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Market calm as uncertainty ends

^NOT^ The Conservatives won the election, right? With a majority? So what the fuck is happening to the market? I thought all of the business papers said that such an…

A new Canada, what will happen?

Here are the results as of this morning from the CBC’s Canada Votes 2011: The Conservative majority is obviously bad for me, but I have to say I’m not unhappy…

Sigh

Convicted fraudster endorses Harper Government (as do most newspapers in the country)

Conrad Black: Exeunt the poltroons of separatism Tee-hee. I’m sure Stephen appreciates your support, Conrad. You are a stark reminder of exactly what type of people owns these rags and…

The most useful flowchart

I saw this linked on Reddit as “This is quite possibly the simplest and most Zen flowchart I’ve ever seen”, and I like it:

Live tweeting Can-Quadra all candidates forum

No fancy widget this time, but you can follow my comments on Twitter under #QuadraDb8 for the Vancouver Quadra all candidates debate at UBC.

Red, Orange or Green

It’s tough deciding where to put my vote on the “left” and it’s not getting any easier this election. Let’s take a look at my choices: Liberals The traditional “safe”…

Some sanity prevails in case of the murderer given “access to the community”

I noted recently that A murderer should not be allowed “access to the community” 2 years into his sentence and it seems like a lot of people came to their…

Why health care is not a normal industry

Patients Are Not Consumers – this is true for so many reasons, not the least of which being that the country who already has a more “consumer-focused” medical industry has…

Uniting the People: On the need for a left-right coalition

The struggle is not between left and right: it is between democracy and tyranny – that is, it is between the people and the power elite. If the people do…

“How globalization can save the planet”

A response to a very glowing review of Flannery’s new book on the state of the earth (Toronto Star, Porter) http://www.thestar.com/news/article/975785–porter-how-globalization-can-unexpectedly-save-the-planet There is always hope. Life never en...

Retro Is In

This post is a response to this article from the Telegraph about a French female lawyer ripping off another young woman’s burqa (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7735607/France-has-first-burka-rage-incident.html). What a disappointment! And what an insult…

Gerald Keddy: never change

Gerald Keddy (South Shore-St. Margaret’s) is getting a bit of bad press for attaching one of his campaign signs to a Government of Canada Economic Action Plan sign in his…

A murderer should not be allowed “access to the community” 2 years into his sentence

What? Child killer Schoenborn granted chance at escorted access to community. Really? What? I’m all for people receiving proper treatment when found guilty but “not criminally responsible”, but after murdering…

Why Canada should seize the R2P moment

The Oped below is in this morning’s Toronto Star. It was written with my new colleague Anouk Dey, with whom I am in the process of building something pretty exciting…

The security apparatus

Why is it that the Conservative campaign is rife with overzealous control freaks screening potential participants and declaring them unfit to gaze upon Dear Leader? I’ll tell you why: Because…