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Remembering Kaila
Blog | Monday, 28 Feb 2011One year ago today, February 28, an extraordinary young woman died. She was one of my daughter’s best friends and was a big part of our lives. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her, and as...
Egypt
Blog | Sunday, 13 Feb 2011Great things have taken place in the life of a people. Over less than three weeks, an unshakable 30 year regime was toppled. It was toppled peacefully for the most part, although not without tragic...
The Saanich Office
Blog | Wednesday, 09 Feb 2011Thanks to everyone for sending messages of concern and support in response to the destruction of our office in Saanich. If you haven’t heard, a large truck lost control and plowed...
Our Cat
Blog | Thursday, 03 Feb 2011Some people think there are two kinds of people. Cat and dog people. I am tempted to say there are two kinds of people: people who think there are two kinds of people and people who know there are...
Kennedy’s inaugural address – 50 years ago today
Blog | Thursday, 20 Jan 2011I am blogging this to amplify on what may strike readers, lacking context, as an odd comment to a Globe and Mail reporter. In today’s Globe there is a feature on the impact of JFK’s inaugural speech...
What attack ads actually attack
Blog | Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011Here we go again. The Harper Conservatives are chafing at the bit, unable to wait until the writ drops before launching the latest round of attack ads. The Conservative mantra is that they do not...
Learning lessons from Arizona
Blog | Thursday, 13 Jan 2011We have all learned a lot more about Arizona this week. We now know that it has the least restrictive gun control in the US. We know that there are exemptions at gun shows where even the...
A call for Greens to take on the internet comment pages
Blog | Wednesday, 29 Dec 2010The other day George Monbiot made the following observations:http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/12/13/reclaim-the-cyber-commons/"Reading comment threads on the Guardian’s sites and elsewhere on the...
Flaherty's attack on the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Blog | Thursday, 23 Dec 2010As end of year interviews go, Flaherty's "shoot the messenger" interview with the Globe is one for the books. First, this government erases Canada's surplus (and Flaherty-Harper cannot blame that on...
Copenhagen to Cancun: what just happened?
Blog | Sunday, 12 Dec 2010It has caught us by surprise. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen was such a disaster -- a train wreck of a negotiation. The conference was contaminated by bad faith. On the...