January 2011
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Kevin Page States the Obvious...Again →
The link in the title is to an article from yesterday’s Toronto Sun.
The Parliamentary Budget Watchdog Kevin Page has once again stated the blatantly obvious: the Harper Government’s budget numbers are a bogus.
Harper and Flaherty says they’ll balance the budget by 2015 and we’ll do so without any tax hikes or major spending cuts (at least, none they’ve announced so...
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Street Gospels: The Director's Cut →
As many of you know, I won the Dalton Camp Award last summer from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
My essay was about the role of political cartoons in Canadian democracy.
It has now ran the peer-review gauntlet and has been published by an academic journal. The link in the title will take you to the most recent edition of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies.
Mine is the third entry....
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Phoque Off!!! →
The world is pissing me off today.
It took the Liberal Party of Canada less than a week to exploit the latest shooting tragedy in the name of Canada’s irrational, ineffective and wasteful gun registry;
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/920779—ignatieff-hails-canada-s-gun-control
I suppose that’s an improvement. Usually they jump on school shootings and other horrific...
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Defending Palin →
I can’t believe I’m doing this…
For once, I actually have to defend Sarah Palin.
It the wake of the monstrosity in Tuscon, Arizona, people have tried to spread the blame around for why some reject grabbed a gun and attacked a crowd of people including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
One of the people who is getting raked over the coals is Sarah Palin because her...
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Harper and McGuinty: Toast in 2011 →
I had decent success last year predicting the outcome and the margins for Toronto’s Mayoral race. Now it’s time for me to really stick my neck out there and make my political predictions for Ontario and Canada in the upcoming year.
Ontario will have a provincial election in October 2011 as is required by the law.
I believe there will be a federal election in the Spring of this year...
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