Thursday, December 31, 2015

Should there be a referendum on PR?

›
The Conservatives are vowing to filibuster attempts by the governing Liberals to reform the way we elect our MPs - be it alternative vote o...
7 comments:

The GOP's worst nightmare, a brokered convention

›
Before we went to a primary-style system of selecting party leaders, we were used to the idea of contested party leader conventions in Canad...
6 comments:
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

This El Niño could be the worst ever

›
Remember El Niño 1998? The mild winter where we got more rain than usual in most places, while Montreal got the ice storm? Well, if the wea...

Weather happens, but customer service ...

›
Hamilton's airport isn't exactly a busy place. Although Westjet did run a lot of flights out of there for a while citing Toronto...
2 comments:
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Falwell U allows guns in dorms

›
Yes ... Liberty University, founded by the late Jerry Falwell, has announced that it is ending its ban on guns in dorms . Like this is suppo...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Libs to repeal spanking law

›
It is decades overdue, but finally in response to a recommendation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the Trudeau government will ...

Yeah, like I'd turn over my tax refund to Queen's Park ...

›
... yet since the Mike Harris days, people in Ontario have actually had the option of donating some or all of their tax refund to help pay d...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

First they want to ban Muslims. Now this ...

›
... an opinion poll shows that 30% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats want to bomb Agrabah, Saudi Arabia. Just one problem - it's the f...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

What is going on at CHCH?

›
Seriously? Has Channel 11 finally gone off the rails? This is the station that gave Canada The Party Game, The Hilarious House of Frightenst...

Make the ORPP voluntary, or enhance the CPP

›
Kathleen Wynne seems hell bent to introduce an Ontario Retirement Pension Plan by the year 2017. The idea is if a company doesn't have a...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Boy did I dial a wrong number!

›
I'm still surprised by the results: Liberal - 184 Conservatives - 99 NDP - 44 Bloc - 10 Green - 1 Much has to do with some distr...
Monday, October 19, 2015

My fearless prediction for Decision 2015

›
And here it is ...remember the Magic Number is 170. Liberals 143 Conservatives 132 NDP 55 Bloc 7 Green 1 My sense is that the Cons w...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Prediction

›
Nothing partisan, I assure you. But it's obvious that unless hell freezes over we're looking at a minority situation - no one will g...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

How to vote, how to vote ...

›
This will be my last post on the election until it actually happens ... barring a freak of nature. I will be working as a Deputy Returning O...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Look who we're dealing with in the TPP

›
So the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal has been initialled. I'm not prepared to discuss the merits of the agreement. But let's consid...
1 comment: