Sarah Palin on SNL
I don’t agree with her politics, but I have to say that she’s an incredibly good sport about the skewering that they’ve given her on SNL:
Chillin’ with Olivia
Last Sunday brought an enormous, city-closing snowstorm to Toronto, and our condo holiday party — good attendance because no one wanted to leave the building. Given that many of us are NDP supporters, we also had a visit from Olivia Chow, our MP, who bundled up in her boots and parka to walk the 1.5km [...]
Net Neutrality’s big chill
Neutrality.ca is off the air, with the following message: Thank you to all those who have supported our websites. Due to increasing legal concerns resulting from our public participation in the Net Neutrality debate, we have at this time decided to shut down the operation of these sites. We have no comment for the media [...]
Income trust tax a screw-up — what a surprise
Last October, my investments took a beating when the Conservatives brought in a new tax on income trusts, something that they swore during their election campaign that they wouldn’t do. If I had ever thought about voting Conservative again (which I hadn’t), that would have been enough to stop that notion. Today, the Globe and [...]
Net neutrality in real life
A couple of weeks ago, Mark tagged me to get involved in the net neutrality debate online. I added a link to neutrality.ca to my sidebar while I contemplated what I had to say about this, then suddenly found myself discussing it frequently enough to realize that I really do care about it. For those [...]
Canada’s middle-aged government
Catching up on my Harper’s reading, this caught my eye: stupid civil servant tricks, straight from Ottawa. “Canada’s New Government”? How long until they’re no longer considered “new”, and waste more time and money changing this?
Getting Canada out of Afghanistan
There are over 11,000 people who have already signed the NDP’s petition to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan. You could be next. Unlike most internet petitions which become filled up with fake names, this one requires your full name and address, so is more likely to be taken seriously as a real petition. From Jack [...]
Garth Turner’s transparent politics
I’m about as far as you can get from being conservative (or Conservative), but I have a huge amount of admiration for Garth Turner, the former Conservative MP from Halton, for the level of transparency that he brings to the political process. First of all, he blogs. Second, he blogs his opinions even when they [...]
Not so friendly after all
American “friendly fire” is now responsible for over 15% of our military deaths in Afghanistan since 2002: 5 out of 32, assuming that the rest of the injured from this weekend’s strafing run by an American fighter jet on a Canadian troop survive. You can be sure that if we were killing 15% of the [...]
