11 entries filed this month:
The one important thing they could have done well in advance of vaccine distribution is public education; instead we have Vancouver SkyTrain and Toronto Go trains decked out with gratuitous advertising. (179 words) More …
It's the home version of the Stephen Harper's Conservative Party spending scandal, dubbed the Cheque Republic and now you can make your own cheques too! (129 words) More …
She learned from our kids that our school board has new computers configured to use Bing, Microsoft's latest entry in the search engine field. (85 words) More …
Regular readers here will recall that I've been saying that Harper had already plunged the country into deficit and new debt since before the last election, back when Harper stated categorically that "we will not be running a deficit". The annual report reiterates what we've been saying here all along. (278 words) More …
Call it cheque-gate or promogate but when a normally Conservative-friendly columnist starts writing about your shiny tory-blue party in an objectively negative way, clearly something is wrong. (1158 words) More …
This isn't a new video but I was reminded of this piece recently and today's climate change data update (again showing Canada's emissions growth outpacing the U.S.) reminded me to link to it once again. Perhaps you can link and forward it on, too.
The presenter offers an insightful yet humorous look at four outcomes for our future and makes a compelling case for action which stands up to scrutiny no matter which side of the debate one finds themselves sitting on.
By comparison other advanced economies have managed to reduce their total GHG output. France - heavily reliant on nuclear energy, has reduced emissions more than 5 percent since 1999. Of particular note are emissions from Sweden and Germany which are respectively 5 and 21 percent below their 1990 levels. (147 words) More …
Stretch your mind back to the fall of last year, the halcyon days of Election 2008. You may recall Stephen Harper on more than one occasion stating categorically that he would not engage in deficit financing nor take on new debt? [2] (455 words) More …
Citizens of all political stripes turned out into Vancouver's streets in anger and protest. Canadians from across the country voiced their opposition to what Emerson and Harper had done. We rightly felt as if our votes, indeed the votes of all Canadians, had been disrespected and devalued. (619 words) More …
The charge is simple: federal spending is politicized. Canadians might be forgiven for yawning with apathetic boredom but instead we should be shouting. (819 words) More …