mike watkins dot ca : May 2010 Archives

May 2010 Archives

10 entries filed this month:

May 26 2010

Russ Hiebert, Conservative MP

I am entitled to my entitlements (1066 words) More …

Premier Gordon Campbell Under Attack

The Globe and Mail reports in Anti-HST campaign grows in strength that petitioners operating under B.C.'s citizen driven initiative laws have almost completed gathering sufficient signatures - with plenty of time remaining before the deadline - to force the B.C. government's hand if they go ahead with the roll out of the Harmonized Sales Tax as planned for June 1. See where your riding stands at the Fight HST campaign progress report page. (626 words) More …

May 23 2010

Harper Doesn't Understand Parliament

Clip: Craig Oliver on CTV's Question Period grills Soudas. (386 words) More …

May 19 2010

Improv Everywhere: Ghostbusters!

I love the Improv Everywhere group. Watching their captivating and usually hilarious productions makes me all warm inside...

Who you gonna call? Check out the behind-the-scenes details.

May 18 2010

CBC Angers Conservatives, Liberals, Alike

[The cannons roar anew] over the alleged wickedness of the CBC. As the Conservative government launched another broadside at the supposed Liberal bias of the Mother Corp, the Globe and Mail found itself in need of a picture for its story. How to illustrate a boring press release and grab some eyeballs for the Globe website? (240 words) More …

May 15 2010

Easy Install, Often Isn't

My story is cyclical in nature. I don't do any Zope work but do work with ZODB and Durus, a ZODB work alike, and a web app traversal mechanism that is Zope-similar. As a result I'm always inclined to check out major new releases of Zope or Grok or Plone and the ecosystem that surrounds same. (558 words) More …

May 14 2010

Thought Provoking Article On 'Family Values'

Can it be? One of the oddest paradoxes of modern cultural politics may at last be resolved. (1255 words) More …

May 07 2010

Prentice: Drill Baby Drill

... into this: (443 words) More …

May 05 2010

BC Libs Overstate School Space Surplus

The conclusion the provincial government wants the public to reach is that closing a few schools would solve the budget problems Vancouver and other boards face. If only this were true, boards would have relatively easy decisions to make. (400 words) More …

May 03 2010

CPC Senator Nancy Ruth: Potty Mouth

Courtesy the Toronto Sun's ever-attentive Susan Delacourt, Aid groups advised to "shut the f--- up" on abortion:

Listen up. (MP3)