One of the big hub-bubs of the last week or so was around the fact that American right-wing commentator, Ann Coulter, had one of her speeches in Canada shut down by protesters. The one that was shut down was at the University of Ottawa while others at locations including my alma mater, the University of […]
I usually have an April Fool's joke lined up for my April 1 blog post but this year it just totally escaped me. So instead, here's a link to a MetaFilter post on the topic o' the day. Weird to note that I often end up doing two blog posts on April 1 for some […]
I wrote a lot about what the number of Facebook friends may or may not mean in a political race during the NDP leadership campaign last year. I'm not sure what if anything these same numbers might mean for a more local race like the one that's currently happening in Regina – Coronation Park. But […]
My candidate for the NDP Coronation Park nomination, Jaime Garcia is having a steak supper fundraiser this Saturday night. If you're in Regina, why not come out and support a future leader of the province?
Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA! Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]
As I mentioned recently on this blog, there is currently a nomination race happening to determine the NDP candidate in the provincial riding of Regina – Coronation Park, a riding which happens to be my home constituency. There are four announced candidates: Jaime Garcia – a labour activist who grew up in Coronation Park, […]
[Edit: As pointed out in the comments to this post and a Globe & Mail follow-up, they backed down on this announcement within a day.] The Harper Conservatives are quietly cutting funding for any organization within 25 km of a public library that offers public Internet access via the long-standing Community Access Program. This could […]
Ryan Meili posted a brief message on his Facebook page saying that he will soon be making an announcement about which riding he'll be running in for the 2010 Provincial Election. Presumably he'll be running in Saskatoon and that likely means one of the ridings currently held by members of the Saskatchewan Party (Sutherland, Greystone) […]
100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions. I wrote about this when our Saskatchewan Party government was out by 95% with their potash reveue projections late last year. But man, it takes a special kind of stupid […]
Rumours were swirling about the top secret torch bearer who would light the Olympic Cauldron during the Opening Ceremonies last Friday. The best suggestion I heard was that they were going to use current video editing techniques or another recently unveiled technology such as a hologram to have Terry Fox “run” into the stadium, symbolically […]
