Binnie and Charron Retire
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, May 13, 2011 – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, announced today that Justice Ian Binnie and Justice Louise Charron have written to…
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Why Buy Local
This info-graphic was assembled by elocal.com and makes an exceptionally compelling argument as to why people should at least consider buying local when they’re in the grocery store and elsewhere:…
Controlling gas prices is a bad idea
Listening to the radio over the last few days, there’s been more talk of getting the government to step in and control rising gas prices. I don’t think anyone understands…
Duped
Again. All I know is I sure as hell didn’t vote for these guys.
Gas Prices and the Conservative Majority
I feel it’s safe to say that as long as we’ve got a Conservative majority, it’s very unlikely that we’ll see any kind of investigation into the price of gas…
Vancouver Mayors Go To Bat for Insite
Vancouver mayor, former mayors go to bat for supervised injection site Filed under: Uncategorized
Trail motion deferred…
Quick note: town council has deferred a motion naming the trail on top of the berm beside the Shipyards after former leisure services director Peter Dunbar. Councillor Ian Chadwick asked…
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…
MayDay 2011: Yer Blues, Orange Crush and RIP LPC
In 2015, the only thing that will defeat the Cons is a concerted effort. The 'death by a thousand cuts' approach by Canada's progressives will only ensure that we never…
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…
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…
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…
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…