2015-10-10 16:35
Many of us have been disgusted the way that the election campaign's hottest issue has been whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the niqab during a citizenship ceremony (note that t… Read More
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2015-08-03 02:22
Today was election campaign launch day in Canada. Well I suppose that really happened a year or so ago, but today was the official launch, when the official rules kick in, at any rate. All t… Read More
2015-07-31 23:50
Imagine that the Democrats wanted to pass a federal law requiring food companies to label their products if they contained genetically modified organisms. What would be the Republican respon… Read More
2015-07-31 23:50
Imagine that the Democrats wanted to pass a federal law requiring food companies to label their products if they contained genetically modified organisms. What would be the Republican respon… Read More
2015-06-28 05:06
So says Kory Teneycke, the former VP of the new defunct Sun News Network and now Director of Communications for the PMO. The irony here is simply too much. He is at least half right. Su… Read More
2015-06-28 05:06
So says Kory Teneycke, the former VP of the new defunct Sun News Network and now Director of Communications for the PMO. The irony here is simply too much. He is at least half right. Su… Read More
2015-05-06 21:42
The question for the federal scene coming out of the historic NDP wave election in Alberta that saw them jump from four seats to 53, a solid majority, is whether anything close to this is re… Read More
2015-05-04 21:59
Going as far back as Justin Trudeau's leadership election, he has consistently kept his major campaign planks close to the vest. Little tidbits, like the policy on marijuana, come out in car… Read More
2015-04-24 07:37
It appears as if Samsung's next smartwatch is going to follow the Moto 360 in having a round face. This is an examples of short term thinking and skeumorphism gone horribly wrong.The concept… Read More
2015-04-07 20:38
After years of being promised whenever the federal books got balanced, it looks like the next Harper budget is indeed going to double the contribution for Tax Free Savings Accounts. This pol… Read More
2015-04-03 06:26
The Globe and Mail just broke the story on what will likely be the defining component of Kathleen Wynne's legacy: The Ontario Liberals are introducing a big cap and trade plan. Details… Read More
2015-03-29 07:29
Being a graduate student is in some sense in the middle of two extremes: being a student primarily benefiting oneself and being a paid worker benefiting society. Before graduate st… Read More
2015-03-13 00:44
At a bare minimum, when the media covers a major conflict between two sides - a union striking, say - it should include the briefest of quotes from people representing both sides of the conf… Read More
2014-12-13 19:35
The 2014 US midterm elections were a massive win for the GOP and, rightly or wrongly, gave them a mandate to act on the issues they campaigned upon. However, the big new budget bill is drawi… Read More
2014-12-08 22:58
Because it's always worth taking a moment to reflect on what really matters in life: Read More
2014-12-04 06:33
As John Tory is now officially the mayor of Toronto, everyone - particularly the media - is in search of an appropriate narrative to go with it. Some of those narratives are good and some ar… Read More
2014-11-26 21:23
This little scandal Tories have gotten themselves into is a bit delightful, but underscores a more important point about the dissemination of talking points.The problem started when a Conser… Read More
2014-11-25 00:55
The NDP's biggest problem electorally isn't a question of policy or values or leadership or connecting with voters or just about anything else perennially brought up to explain their difficu… Read More
2014-11-24 22:23
Airbnb and Uber are similar in many ways. They both use tech (particularly mobile) to solve a distribution problem and they are both market darlings with skyrocketing valuations. They are bo… Read More
2014-11-16 05:09
Two of the defining problems of our times are wealth inequality (both globally and within the first world) and climate change. With any socioeconomic order - our mixture of capitalism and go… Read More
2014-11-01 22:40
The motivation behind the idea of Income Splitting is quite reasonable. Namely, under the current scheme, two families with identical total income can be taxed at substantially different rat… Read More
2014-10-30 06:43
The dominant effect of government on society is to redistribute wealth from the richer members of society to the poorer. One can support or oppose this idea, but as a simply descriptive poin… Read More
2014-10-20 21:56
The ability to make phone calls on a modern smartphone is now just one app among many. For most people it isn't even close to the most used app with Facebook, YouTube, messaging, games, and… Read More
2014-10-04 00:24
I recently wrote a post about the motivations for middle powers like Canada to join international coalitions for wars such as the recent war in Iraq. Now that we have seen Harper official ju… Read More
2014-09-27 18:36
Harper got caught in a lie important enough that the US Secretary of Defence's office took the somewhat rare move of embarrassing Harper by telling everyone it was indeed a lie. Namely, as r… Read More
2014-09-08 23:08
On paper, the Toronto Mayoral race should be a cakewalk for the NDP's Olivia Chow. Consider, it is down to two conservatives who will split votes on the right and a single progressive on the… Read More
2014-09-08 19:38
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is ju… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Quebec has numerous very legitimate issues in governance and economics that can, and should, be addressed in an election. In many ways, the Quebec model provides for Canada an example of a s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sorry, fellow progressives, but it's true.The first debate was, somewhat mercifully, fairly policy focused with large sections devoted to debating various transit plans (such as LRT vs subwa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Students who come to Quebec to study at universities like McGill - as my brother has done - are in a rather uncomfortable position when it comes to voting in the upcoming provincial election… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I've had some fun slipping the occasional non-politics related post into this politics blog like some of my old piano recordings or the newer Tech on the Side series. Covering politics and p… Read More
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