This is a great characteristic for private life:  •  “this is coming to be seen as one of Harper's signature traits — viewing communication as a one-way exercise: telling, not explaining or persuading or listening. Prime ministerial communication, as this current office-holder describes it, is all …

I can hear them even now - whiff, whiff, whiff. The sound of my new back to school cords, junior high late 70s. Crisp now, they would weigh me down in that cold October rain waiting for the bus, absorbing like a new sponge technology. This is the first bad day in the calendar since February …

Is this it? Is this the actual moment when the Gen X generation of Steve Harper starts to make good on the years of knowing that some time the boomers are going to have to go?  •  “The key move was one of Harper's first: pulling Kevin Lynch back from Washington where he was an executive director …

Good to read this news out of the Supreme Court of Canada this morning:  •  “HUMAN RIGHTS: "POLITICAL BELIEF" DISCRIMINATION  •  The Respondents were a group of occasional provincial government employees and members of the Provincial Liberal Party, who were either not recalled to work or had their …

Where is Gen. John Cabot Trail of the CBLA when you need him?  •  What are the odds this will actually be a fantastic success and bring a boost of the expected economic development? What are the chances? Less that zero.  •  “The Toronto Star has learned that Nova Scotia has signed a "team …

Have we fallen out with China without anyone telling us?  •  “There is talk of a possible visit to Beijing next month by International Trade Minister David Emerson, but it remains unconfirmed. Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay has travelled to many countries, including the war-torn streets of …

Oh, that we could always have a minority government:  •  “Prime Minister Stephen Harper has reached across party lines for foreign-policy help, appointing a Liberal MP as his adviser on the Middle East and Afghanistan. The sudden appointment of Mississauga Liberal MP Wajid Khan, a Muslim Canadian …

Even though this makes practical sense, it is fun watching how far the Tories are moving from the days of Reform and the grassroots will of the people:  •  “The federal Conservatives have moved to restrict two-time losers from seeking further nominations as party candidates. Tories who have run …

A big day around here. Once again we will have mortgaged ourselves but I have prepared myself and now feel fully empowered - or at least around 3 pm will - to scream about property rights and being a tax payer and all that. Except for the fact that the Cooles family is not through the wall of the …