Prediction time!
Hey all, I’ve been playing with my spreadsheet. It’s silly, fun, and a waste of time. That aside, I’ve taken the shift between polling numbers in 2011 (allowing for the…
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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...
Federal Securities Regulation: The Saga Continues
The concept of Federal Securities Regulation in Canada is perennial. It keeps on coming back, most recently via a reference to the Supreme Court of Canada. Pundits will talk, industry…
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…
A useful tool for strategic voting.
Hello bloggers of Canada! Grab this file! strategic-voting.xls I misspent a few hours this weekend creating what I hope is a useful spreadsheet for voters in the upcoming election. The…
Don’t Blame R2P: A Rebuttal to Margaret Wente
Sometimes I appreciate Margaret Wente’s contrarianism, sometimes it really blinds her. Her piece last weekend on R2P and Libya was wildly off the mark, replacing critique with a somewhat bizarre…
Oped in G&M on Election Debates
Rudyard Griffiths and I have a piece out today on how and why our election debates are flawed, and what can be done about it. We have a lot of…
LOTR on Queen’s Pro Bono Radio
This was inspired by lawiscool.com’s previous post about LOTR as property law. We tried to break down different methods of possession and discussed who we thought was the true lord…
International Intervention in Libya
By David Olevson and Ekaterina Perchenok With the conflict in Libya and throughout the Middle East escalating every day, we must keep conscious of the inherent bias of our news…
Foreign correspondents in an age of Twitter
My friend Mike Ananny and I have been chatting lately about the changing role of the foreign correspondent. As the evolving democratic movements in the Middle East have shown, the…