The work of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission is something I think is one of the most important challenges facing Canada. So, I suppose, it is no wonder it didn't cause a blip on the radar of the last election. But today's news that Commission chair Harry LaForme …

Jay is bored but Ben suggests there will be some sort of October surprise that may pull the Conservatives out of the nose dive death spiral self-fulfilling prophecy of a vicious circle that has found them where they are - possibly about to lose the election. Why are they there and what could help …

Is it that they know how they work or what they can do for you? The usually astute and not really diatribal Robert over at A Dime A Dozen Political Blog posted about the use of Google ads by the NDP as if the NDP learned who you were through the process. Fear of Google ads is pretty 2002 or so …

There is a certain pattern to elections. The days come and go and within only a few days some patterns seem to appear. Generalities. Themes. Motifs, even. So far in this one the main theme I see is that the Liberals have not collapsed through their own sheer incompetency. I think we all had …

...and especially for you, little Jimmy.  •  We stayed up again for a speech. I like speeches so I am something of a sucker but I thought there was just the right measure of menace and warning to the Republican party that my expectation that he would govern as an unfettered independent remains in …

I like Maine. You know I like Maine. Google knows I like Maine for God's sake. This year we are renting an urban cottage and looking forward to it. I have no idea as to the internet access so we will see how you cope.  •  Your weekly PEI is outraged over something update: Now the government is …

OK, it didn't change. It's pretty much the same as last week - but it is really like that week twenty-seven weeks back if you think about it. It's kinda eerie when you think about it like that. Or mid-May 2005. It's like that, too. Weird:  •  Georgian military update: Castle Aaarrgh knows all.Best …

When you think about it, blogs really should be just Friday Bullets. No one really wants to know the half-baked opinions of strangers. No one really is interested in how many ways the unhappy and unintelligent drop-outs and dopes who post comments can insult. They want to know about the stuff that …

I have to say, you know, that the idea of plucking tin-pot dictators off busses to have them taken to global justice warms the heart. Careful readers will know that I met many refugees from the Bosnia war in PEI of all places where early relocatations took place. I coached a mens soccer team that …