Washington Post ribs Iceland’s planned adoption of Loonie: "Step one in...
The Washington Post isn’t too optimistic about Iceland’s plan to adopt the Canadian dollar. In fact, it finds it all a bit of a lark. More seriously, Iceland wouldn’t be the first country to...
View ArticleDriving The Porcelain Bus: Federal NDP Continue To Edge Towards A Majority...
The latest Forum Research poll (Forum Research results, National Post story) shows the NDP in the lead nationally, in Quebec, Atlantic and BC, and almost tied with the Conservatives in Ontario and the...
View ArticleAn individual with opinions.: Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim...
I was reading through the Ontario Progressive Conservatives White Paper on unions, and I came across a most interesting part. Page 6, emphasis mine, When the Canadian dollar had a low value relative to...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Self-Interest Versus The Public Good
We Canadians talk a good game. We want our unemployed to be able to find jobs, we want those with the need to be able to readily access the social safety net, and we think the plight of the working...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Alberta’s big problem is the same as Russia’s – so what’s...
Keep those wells a-pumpin! Keep those oil prices low! Squeeze those Russkies! Uh … just a minute. … isn’t that bad for Alberta’s many varieties of Conservative? Below: Russian President Vladimir Putin,...
View ArticleBlevkog: Oil buck$
Playing around on the internet at lunch today, I came across a couple of interesting databases that confirm, at least visually, that we are a petro-economy. With data on the daily price of West Texas...
View ArticleAn individual with opinions.: Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim...
I was reading through the Ontario Progressive Conservatives White Paper on unions, and I came across a most interesting part. Page 6, emphasis mine,When the Canadian dollar had a low value relative to...
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