CBC
CBC fights the culture war
What’s this? A CBC story about huge guns, a baby, and Santa? From Scottsdale Arizona? What is the relevance? Oh, those Americans and their guns. “Is it…
November 2011
9 posts from November 2011.
Climate and Environment
Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol
Was Canada ever even in? The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 in the city of the same name in Japan. The United States was the only holdout at the time, with…
Canadian Media
Just another day in Ottawa…
So, this tweet stream caught my attention yesterday, [quotetweet tweetid=139742792263016448] [quotetweet tweetid=139744432890195970] (5 minutes later, Coderre…
New Democratic Party of Canada
Vacated prime real estate in Ottawa!
Paulina Ayala is the NDP Member of Parliament for Honoré-Mercier in Quebec. She was elected on May 2nd in the Orange Crush that saw the NDP take most of the…
Parliament of Canada
Occupy Eviction Day
Occupiers in Toronto and Ottawa stand to be evicted from their tents today as St. James Church and Ottawa’s National Capital Commission have issued trespassing…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Syria now on UN human rights committee
Maariv via The Weekly Standard, A short time after UNESCO, the UN’s organization for education and science, accepted the Palestinian Authority as a full member…
Ontario Politics
Richard Ciano’s bid to run the PCPO
My friend Richard Ciano is running for the Presidency of the PC Party of Ontario. He’s launching his campaign tonight in a simultaneous telephone townhall/live…
Free Speech
What are they teaching in school?
Concordia’s student newspaper on Movember (November 2011): The whole ‘Movember’ thing is cute and all, but can we stop and be real about it for a second?…
Columns
State of Twitter
Treasury Board President Tony Clement recently remarked that Twitter is important in the public policy process. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MP has discovered its…