Canada Archives

September 11, 2025 Is the Ending of The Night Girl too Optimistic?
July 22, 2025 Sleepwalking Towards Union: Missed Opportunities on the GO Train from Kitchener
June 30, 2025 How a Pilot Project Hurts Service Rather than Improves It (On the failure of Metrolinx's GO Train Extension to London)
March 24, 2025 Even More Podcast Attention
February 14, 2025 The True Patriots
February 10, 2025 The Premier Who'd Rather Dig a Hole Beneath a Highway
March 2, 2024 Thoughts and Prayers and Action
November 30, 2023 Wow. (The Green Party takes Kitchener Centre by-election with 48% of the vote)
July 8, 2023 My Left Retina
July 2, 2023 On Canada
June 3, 2023 My Father Drew Libraries for a Living
April 25, 2023 I don't like Mondays
January 4, 2023 On Train Service to Timmins and Weekend GO Service to Stratford
October 23, 2022 Whither Joan Sprat?
September 8, 2022 The Queen is Dead. God Save the King
August 28, 2022 Statement of Principles (Part 1: Healthcare)
August 3, 2022 Remembering Mike Filey
July 9, 2022 Canadian National Broadband Lines
June 25, 2022 Yesterday
June 5, 2022 We Need to Raise Taxes
June 3, 2022 The Need for a Rural Strategy
March 5, 2022 This Was Always Going to Happen (On $2/Litre Gas Prices)
February 10, 2022 We, the Silent Majority
October 9, 2021 North and West
July 1, 2021 Day of Atonement
March 16, 2020 Quarantine Journal, Day 4
March 13, 2020 Remarkable Events
February 15, 2020 Escape from Canada
October 20, 2019 My Statement on the TPL TERF Room Rental Controversy.
May 21, 2018 Farewell, Mr. Seiling
April 25, 2018 I'm getting tired of still having to deal with this crud...
February 23, 2018 On the need for an Integrated Transit Plan
Part 3: Stop the Silos
February 20, 2018 On the Need for an Integrated Transit Plan
Part 2: The Need to Rescue VIA Rail
December 8, 2017 Remembering When Ontario Was an Oil Power
August 25, 2017 On Hydro Rates
August 9, 2017 On the Death of VIA Rail
July 16, 2017 On Ontario's Reinventing the Wheel
July 7, 2017 Canada's connection to the past is being degraded
April 5, 2017 On Heritage LRTs
March 30, 2017 Giving NIMBY a Bad Name
March 3, 2017 End the Agreement
February 20, 2017 Fixing Fixed Incomes
October 25, 2016 The Long Honeymoon
October 18, 2016 How Stupid People Threaten the World
October 5, 2016 The Great Canadian Mark-Up
August 3, 2016 Mel Hurtig (1932-2016)
November 25, 2015 On Ambitious Schedules and Getting the Job Done
October 20, 2015 The Conservative Leadership: Who's Next?
October 15, 2015 Smallwood Shenanigans
August 11, 2015 The Hypothetical Elephants
(On the Sherbrooke Declaration and the Clarity Act)
August 3, 2015 A Summation of Ontario's Transit Policy
August 1, 2015 Strength and Bloc
July 31, 2015 On Tom Mulcair's Proposed Exit from the Consortium Debates
July 28, 2015 On Toplessness
July 16, 2015 Recession and Perception II
July 3, 2015 John Crosbie Unleashed
April 29, 2015 An Odd Way to Conduct an Opinion Poll
April 24, 2015 The Fall of the Alberta Tories
September 12, 2014 The Conversation We Did Not Have
July 24, 2014 On Tim Horton's and its Faulty Embrace of New Technology
June 5, 2014 Bring Back the Hockey Rover (At least for a tryout)
May 30, 2014 Oh, For a Little Accountability
May 26, 2014 Credit Where it's Due
May 16, 2014 Cue Angry E-mails In 3... 2... 1... Ah, here we go...
May 11, 2014 How Not to Handle a Job Interview to be Premier...
December 12, 2013 The Naming Fad
August 2, 2013 On Unintended Narratives and Uncontrolled Expectations
July 1, 2013 O, Canada
June 6, 2013 On the Conservatives' Goldfish Memory
March 15, 2013 Announcing the Closing of the Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians
March 7, 2013 The TTC Skidaddler
February 5, 2013 Oh, For a Little Clarity
January 10, 2013 Why I Support the Teachers, Even Though Tomorrow Promises to be a Big Fat Pain in the Ass
December 21, 2012 In Conversation with Sandra Pupatello
November 26, 2012 The Perils of Mandatory Minimums
November 20, 2012 In Conversation with Gerard Kennedy
October 15, 2012 Farewell McGuinty
September 30, 2012 The Last Northlander
July 22, 2012 The Man I Was - IV
July 2, 2012 Happy Canada Day
June 24, 2012 Nora Graduates From Preschool
May 26, 2012 The Man I Was - III
April 30, 2012 Quick Hits - April 30
April 24, 2012 The Fall of the Northlander?
March 24, 2012 My, Grandpa! What Big Patties You Have!
January 31, 2012 The Hill He Chose to Fight On
January 10, 2012 Tim Hortons Tries to Kill Me
December 18, 2011 What Six Year Olds Are Capable Of
October 28, 2011 This is How You Know it's a Slow News Day
October 15, 2011 People Power
October 4, 2011 On Tim Hudak's Very Disappointing Performance
August 22, 2011 Jack Layton (1950-2011)
July 25, 2011 When Not To Throw Your Weight Around
June 21, 2011 Government of the Kludge
June 11, 2011 The Difference Between Political and Partisan
June 6, 2011 Take This Job And...
May 29, 2011 A Dose of Fiscal Reality
May 21, 2011 Rebuilding the Library at Slave Lake
May 10, 2011 Accidental Gerrymandering
April 29, 2011 Alternate Canadian History
Election 2000 - Preston Manning Gets His Ontario Breakthrough
April 25, 2011 Alternate Canadian History
Election 2004 - Joe Clark's Triumphant Return
April 18, 2011 Am I Angry? Am I Cursed?
April 12, 2011 A Way to Improve the Vote Subsidy System
March 8, 2011 A New Reader
March 4, 2011 Stephen Harper's New Best Friend
February 24, 2011 Fiscal Inanity and Arrogance
December 20, 2010 The Forgotten Bloc
December 5, 2010 Rally For Rails in Waterloo Region
November 4, 2010 On Making Remembrance Day a Statutory Holiday
October 13, 2010 Blame Ignatieff!
October 11, 2010 You Always Got Time for the Casual Belittling of the Common Man
October 8, 2010 Power or Good Government. Pick One.
September 13, 2010 Rossi's Tunnel Vision. Rossi's Gift.
August 22, 2010 You Can Lead a Voter to Water, But...
August 17, 2010 When the Law is an Ass
August 10, 2010 On the Green Party's Protection of Elizabeth May
August 6, 2010 Behind the Sofa
August 2, 2010 Run, Tory, Run!
July 9, 2010 Protesters and Hooligans: What Would You Do?
July 8, 2010 We the People
July 3, 2010 Contemplating Austerity
June 27, 2010 The Revolution May Be Twittered
June 12, 2010 A Letter of Complaint to Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro
June 9, 2010 On Canada's Potential Liberal Democrats
June 3, 2010 Leaders, Go Home
April 30, 2010 Reason Why First Past the Post Sucks, #1094
April 28, 2010 The Corruption of Incompetence
April 27, 2010 Thank You, Mr. Speaker
April 26, 2010 Prime Minister Jack Layton?
February 23, 2010 Rob Anders Brings Out the Dead
February 2, 2010 Quick Hits, Groundhog Day
January 27, 2010 On Partisanship (Again)
January 23, 2010 Make Perogies, Not Prorogation
January 20, 2010 Democratic Exercise
January 19, 2010 Canadians Are Not Ashamed to be Elite
January 14, 2010 Things that Made Me Chuckle Today
January 14, 2010 Yo, Catelli: You Missed a Podium (Why the Governor General Should Remain, and Remain Appointed)
December 30, 2009 The Real Canadian Coup d'Etat
December 17, 2009 A Hatred of Expertise and Professionalism
December 10, 2009 The Power of Parliament
December 9, 2009 Peter MacKay Must Resign
December 6, 2009 Twenty Years Ago Today
November 6, 2009 Vivian Katherine's Fourth Birthday
October 20, 2009 On the Fall of the National Post
October 13, 2009 The Dangers of an HST Election
October 7, 2009 To Ban a Mockingbird
October 1, 2009 Impostoring Good Government
September 25, 2009 Farewell Mayor Miller
September 21, 2009 Handouts to Me is My Right. Handouts to Other People is Wonton Socialism.
September 14, 2009 The Mechanics of Losing Confidence
September 3, 2009 It's Time For a Change. Again.
August 28, 2009 The Real Hypocrisy of Stephen Harper's Senate Appointments
August 25, 2009 Meanwhile, at Union Station...
August 12, 2009 Stupidity in the Health Care Debate
August 11, 2009 Harper Didn't Blame Canada. I Blame Bad Planning.
July 28, 2009 Devaluing the Canadian Passport
July 9, 2009 Oops.
June 29, 2009 Undervaluing the Other Parents
June 26, 2009 Thank You, Globe and Mail
June 22, 2009 Abousfian Abdelrazik to Return Home to Canada
June 20, 2009 Can Canada Do More in Iran?
June 17, 2009 Another Call For Food and Drink
June 11, 2009 Clock Ticking on Toronto's Streetcar Deal
June 10, 2009 Layton's Mortgage Comes Due?
June 8, 2009 Raitt's Steakhouse (The Conservatives' Dingwall Moment?)
June 4, 2009 Federal Court orders Ottawa to let Abdelrazik return to Canada
June 3, 2009 Conservative Fiscal Mismanagement
May 29, 2009 And I Can't Even Eat Sushi!
May 21, 2009 Will Someone Apologize to Linda Keen Now?
May 13, 2009 Human Shields on the Gardiner?
May 7, 2009 The Wanderers of Ontario?
May 5, 2009 The Last Days of Being in the Black
April 30, 2009 The New Coalition Government?
April 28, 2009 Our Government of Mean-Spirited Idiots
April 25, 2009 Recession and Perception
April 4, 2009 Dear Stephen Harper: Bring Abousfian Abdelrazik Home, Now.
March 31, 2009 On Partisanship
March 30, 2009 Why Harris, not Eves, Lost in 2003
March 28, 2009 Things I Approve Of (And Second Thoughts)
March 14, 2009 The Mini Canadian Mortgage Crisis
March 6, 2009 Happy 175th Birthday, Toronto
January 27, 2009 Hmm....
January 22, 2009 On the Canadian Deficit, Conservative or Otherwise
December 16, 2008 Beer and Popcorn... at the Movies
December 14, 2008 The Internet Senate Elections
December 12, 2008 A Local Venture
December 7, 2008 Proportional Representation and National Unity
December 5, 2008 The Greatest Canadian Blog - Part V
December 5, 2008 The Greatest Canadian Blog - Part V - Part II
December 5, 2008 The Greatest Canadian Blog - Part V - Part III
December 3, 2008 Irony, thy name is Bloc
December 2, 2008 Updates, Corrections and Comments
November 30, 2008 Why Those Evil Boy Scouts! (Today, Being Prepared is Somehow Sinister)
November 29, 2008 Why this Conservative Government Deserves Defeat
November 28, 2008 A Grand Coalition?
November 26, 2008 A Cynical Attack on Democracy
November 14, 2008 A Proposed Liberal Party Manifesto
November 9, 2008 Multiculturalism is More than the Sum of its Parts
October 27, 2008 Canadians Pay Lower Income Taxes Than Americans
September 19, 2008 The People Behind the Politics in the Canadian Blogosphere - Week 2: What are you Reading?
September 12, 2008 The People Behind the Politics in the Canadian Blogosphere - Week 1: Rock On
August 31, 2008 Ye Olde Parties: 307
The Greens: 1
August 28, 2008 For Conservative Eyes Only!
August 26, 2008 How to Spark an Election Without Really Trying
August 25, 2008 Sorry, Guys: If he calls it, it's a broken promise.
August 23, 2008 Eleanor's Chinese Name
August 21, 2008 Charles McVety Embarrasses Christians Everywhere
August 13, 2008 Our Sanctimonious Government
July 29, 2008 On Civility and Murder
July 25, 2008 The New Conservative Federal Deficit Begins?
July 22, 2008 Quick Hits - July 22
July 17, 2008 I am Sick of Moral Outrage
July 1, 2008 Happy 141st Birthday, Canada
June 24, 2008 The Man Who Should Be Prime Minister
June 20, 2008 An Open Letter to Ministers Prentice and Vernier
June 13, 2008 I Get Letters... From Jim Prentice!
June 9, 2008 A Carbon Tax is Okay by Me
May 21, 2008 Terrorism in Toronto's Subway... in 1985
May 16, 2008 Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part VI (Conclusion): Bill Davis
May 8, 2008 The Conservatives' Achilles Heel
April 26, 2008 On the TTC Strike, ATU Local 113 and Essential Services
April 22, 2008 Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part V: Bob Rae and David Petersen?
April 16, 2008 Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part IV: Mike Harris and Ernie Eves?
March 30, 2008 Next Time Let's Declare "Let's Not Hit Ourselves Repeatedly With a Hammer Hour"
March 25, 2008 Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part III: Dalton McGuinty?
March 24, 2008 Nothing We Create is Good or Evil, Until We Use It
March 19, 2008 Being Partisan Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
March 18, 2008 Suddenly it's Easier Being Green...
March 12, 2008 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
March 6, 2008 Another Sign that the Human Race Might Be Too Stupid to Live
March 4, 2008 On Political Venom, Part II
March 2, 2008 On Political Venom (Redux)
February 28, 2008 On Conservative Corruption
February 27, 2008 The Formalization of the Liberal-Conservative Coalition Government?
February 21, 2008 Quick Hits -- February 21
February 14, 2008 Quick Hits -- Valentine's Day Edition
February 12, 2008 February 18 is Love Day, Dammit!
January 29, 2008 The Greatest Canadian... Blog -- Part IV
January 24, 2008 To: Left Hand, From: Right Hand,
Subject: What Are You Doing?
January 23, 2008 Well, That Didn't Go As Well As Planned
January 16, 2008 The Protest Process
January 9, 2008 McDonald's Attacks Russia During Winter. Or, Rather, Starbucks.
January 8, 2008 Our Angry, Impatient Government
December 29, 2007 A Very Odd Definition of Courage
December 23, 2007 Bloggers Are Strange
December 22, 2007 On the Road Again
December 17, 2007 Question Everything. Even Ourselves. And Chill.
December 12, 2007 The National To-Do List V:
Saving the Family Farm
December 10, 2007 Credit Where It's Due - December 10th Edition
December 8, 2007 The Fall of the CD and the Rise of DMCA
December 4, 2007 Wherein I Kick Warren Kinsella's Butt!
November 22, 2007 Prisoners in the Promised Land
November 21, 2007 How Police Officers Work on Ottawa Street
November 17, 2007 Quick Hits - November 17
November 7, 2007 A Matter of Control (Freak!)
November 3, 2007 An Open Letter to Stockwell Day
October 31, 2007 Not Bad, Mr. Flaherty
October 29, 2007 Quick Hits -- October 29
September 18, 2007 After Hysteria, Contemplation
September 4, 2007 The Failure of Our Government to Serve Us Impartially
August 23, 2007 The Government Shouldn't Try to Make People Afraid of the People
August 22, 2007 An Open Letter to Royson James
August 9, 2007 Wanting to be right *and* popular
July 19, 2007 Politicians to City: Drop Dead
July 11, 2007 A Long Life, Well Lived. Honest!
(Ed Mirvish, 1914-2007)
June 17, 2007 Breech!
June 12, 2007 Farewell to Andrew Anderson
June 10, 2007 Quick Hits - June 10
June 8, 2007 Jump, Science! Jump!
June 6, 2007 Italo Calvino and Me
June 4, 2007 Quick Hits - June 4th
June 2, 2007 The Impressive Mr. Day
June 1, 2007 The Return of Mr. Angry
May 29, 2007 A Question of Anonymity
May 28, 2007 Quick Hits - May 28
May 20, 2007 Does Anybody Remember Blinky?
May 19, 2007 What Part of Representation by Population Do You Not Understand?
May 18, 2007 How to Manipulate Procedure and Stymie Committees
May 17, 2007 Democracy Isn't Easy (Nor Should It Be)
May 12, 2007 How Andre Boisclair Could Have Avoided Defeat
May 8, 2007 Ontario's Little Known Germ Warfare Program
May 6, 2007 Beware the Politician With the Courage to Say What She Thinks
May 4, 2007 You Can Lead a Voter to a Ballot, But...
April 30, 2007 How Many Conservatives Does it Take to Remove an Incandescent Lightbulb?
April 27, 2007 Yet Another Toronto-based Political Blog, But...
April 23, 2007 My Planet Before My Party?
April 14, 2007 The Fifth Player, Not a Fifth Wheel
April 13, 2007 Belaboured Statistics
April 10, 2007 What's Black and Blue and Floats in the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
April 7, 2007 Talking 'bout My Education
March 24, 2007 Irresponsible Rumour Mongering
March 22, 2007 Screw the Safety Net, I Want a Floor!
March 20, 2007 Quick Hits - March 20
March 16, 2007 Overusing the Bigot Epithet
March 10, 2007 The Inefficiency of Conservatives
March 9, 2007 Credit Where it's Due - March 9
March 8, 2007 Quick Hits - March 8
March 5, 2007 Strange Bedfellows Indeed (Harper and McGuinty Seduced... by Transit)
February 25, 2007 So, What Do I Want?
February 24, 2007 The Real National Scandal
February 23, 2007 Gaffe!
February 22, 2007 When Asking Questions Provokes a Strong Response
February 9, 2007 Optics and Reality
February 8, 2007 Fear Her. And Fear the BANPC (Yeah, Right)
February 6, 2007 Reading and Copy Editing
January 29, 2007 Way to Go, Conservatives! (Said Twice, the Second Time With Irony)
January 24, 2007 Cynicism is Not a Centrist Principle
January 23, 2007 Yeah. I know.
(Love & Monsters Reviewed)
January 22, 2007 People are Strange
January 19, 2007 The Canadian Wheat Board Finds its Western-based Support
January 13, 2007 The Only Post I'm Going to Write About Little Mosque on the Prairie
January 10, 2007 When Middle Ground Becomes Battle Ground
January 7, 2007 On Wajid Khan and the Blogging Tories
January 5, 2007 What's Jack Layton's Moustache Still Doing on his Face?
December 24, 2006 All I Want for Christmas is...
December 22, 2006 Mr. Angry Becomes Mr. Sneak
December 13, 2006 The Marketplace of Ideas Sells us Lemons
December 10, 2006 Further Thoughts on the Canadian Blogosphere
December 6, 2006 Second Class Canadian Citizens II
December 4, 2006 Night of the Underdogs
December 2, 2006 An Object Lesson in Identity Theft
November 30, 2006 The Death of Fear IV
November 27, 2006 Oh, So Close!
November 23, 2006 The Greatest Canadian... Blog -- Part III
November 15, 2006 The National To-Do List IV: Electoral Reform.
November 10, 2006 Remembrance V
November 9, 2006 A Bad Month for Conservatives
October 27, 2006 The World Wide Schoolyard
October 20, 2006 If Bob Rae is so Unelectable, Why are you Afraid He'll Win?
October 7, 2006 Mediocre (non-Mainstream) Media
October 6, 2006 Why do the Tories Fear Anders?
September 14, 2006 Cheri DiNovo and Bob Hunter (In Response to Warren Kinsella)
September 14, 2006 Let They Who Are Without Sin...
September 13, 2006 Edna Staebler (1906-2006)
September 11, 2006 Quick Hits - September 11
September 8, 2006 Forgive The Liberals, Lord; They Know Not What They Do.
September 6, 2006 On Afghanistan
August 26, 2006 So, One Man's Terrorist Really *Is* Another Man's Freedom Fighter
August 12, 2006 Never Fear II
August 9, 2006 Conservative Spending Strategy
August 4, 2006 To the True End of Yonge Street V:
Midtown
August 1, 2006 To the True End of Yonge Street IV:
Heart of Yonge
July 27, 2006 To the True End of Yonge Street II:
At the Beginning
July 25, 2006 To the True End of Yonge Street
July 24, 2006 The Baby Bonus Has Arrived
July 19, 2006 Second Class Canadian Citizens
July 11, 2006 Finally, Blogging Pays Off!
July 10, 2006 Spirited Energy - Lame Marketing
July 4, 2006 On Varying Reactions
June 30, 2006 The Problem of Public Transit III: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
June 27, 2006 Getting Noticed
June 22, 2006 Apology Accepted
June 7, 2006 Never Fear
June 6, 2006 Passport Canada
June 3, 2006 Good Hunting
June 1, 2006 Quick Hits - June 1
May 26, 2006 The Unwritten Girl Literature Unit
May 21, 2006 Quote of the Day
May 20, 2006 On Prejudice
May 17, 2006 Another Appearance by Mr. Angry
May 12, 2006 A Canadian Blogger in Virtual Texas II
May 11, 2006 The Problem of Public Transit II: Not Spending Where it's Needed, Not Needing Where it's Spent
May 9, 2006 Amplification (Ooo, Scary!)
May 7, 2006 Maybe We Should Be Paying Attention to the Green Party Leadership Race...
May 5, 2006 Don't Tread Upon Me
May 4, 2006 The Problem of Public Transit I: The Silent Necessity Grows Louder
May 1, 2006 Mayday! Mayday! (Quick Hits for May 1st)
April 29, 2006 The National To-Do List III: Not Health Care, Demographics
April 28, 2006 Another Entry in the Mediocre Media Carnival
April 27, 2006 A Nation Mourns Too
April 21, 2006 Ow! Ow! Ow! Where's the Secret Service Guys When You Need Them?
April 19, 2006 The Eleventh Province Revisited
April 18, 2006 Mediocre Media: My Entry
April 15, 2006 Canada's Kennedy?
April 3, 2006 Resurrection Ship, Part 2
April 1, 2006 Erin Reads at the Brantford Armouries
March 28, 2006 James in the Middle
March 23, 2006 An Open Letter to John Tory
March 20, 2006 Sex and the Flying Tory
March 14, 2006 The National To-Do List II - Reinvesting in Canada's Military
March 11, 2006 Non-Partisans Signs 100th Member, and Gets an Upgrade
March 8, 2006 Mr. Angry Knows He's Right, and Damn Anybody Who Says Otherwise
March 7, 2006 Living With Writers
March 5, 2006 The National To-Do List
February 27, 2006 In Other News...
February 23, 2006 On Confronting Hatred
February 17, 2006 Quick Hits - February 17
February 15, 2006 The Liberal Party Is Sick
February 14, 2006 On Conservative Integrity (David Emerson III)
February 12, 2006 On the Defection of David Emerson II
February 6, 2006 My reaction upon hearing that David Emerson had crossed over to the Conservative Party
February 1, 2006 There's Something Happening Here...
January 30, 2006 Quick Hits - January 30
January 9, 2006 Wherein I Find Myself at the Centre of a Blogging Controversy
January 3, 2006 Why the Liberals May Lose, But Will Never Die
December 28, 2005 Due North From Lincoln
December 8, 2005 Smart (Alec) Cards
November 27, 2005 When Stephen Met Paul...
November 25, 2005 It's Time For a Change
November 21, 2005 Letter from the CBC
November 16, 2005 Advice to the Mainstream Parties After They Lose the Next Election
November 10, 2005 Brilliant!
November 7, 2005 Uptown Waterloo Receives Free WiFi
November 5, 2005 Baby Bureaucracy
October 26, 2005 Rosemary and Time now The Unwritten Girl
October 24, 2005 The Seven Year Itch
October 15, 2005 Thirty-Eight Weeks
October 2, 2005 The Conservative Critique IV: Why Stephen Harper Really is Scary
September 23, 2005 Interesting Tidbits
September 13, 2005 Good Move, Dalton
September 12, 2005 You're Welcome
September 10, 2005 Are We Too Political for the Canadian Blogosphere?
September 9, 2005 Credit Where it's Due: the Conservative Policy on Daycare
September 6, 2005 Uh, Oh.
August 30, 2005 The Drowning of New Orleans
August 25, 2005 Patriotism Really is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel
August 20, 2005 The Curious Case of the $10 Bill Shortage
August 17, 2005 The $1L Gas Problem (Like the Y2K problem, except with gas)
August 15, 2005 The Conservative Critique III: the CBC
August 14, 2005 Milk: It Does Bilingualism Good
August 7, 2005 Right Down the Memory Hole
August 5, 2005 "Never Do Anything You Don't Love"
August 4, 2005 The Conservatives Are On Their Trolley
August 3, 2005 Odd Spam
August 2, 2005 On the Arrest of Mark Emery
July 27, 2005 Canada: The Manual
July 22, 2005 Quick Hits, Quick Comments
July 3, 2005 Messianic Michael Ignatieff
June 30, 2005 The New Doctor Who: Continuation or Reboot?
June 28, 2005 The Slow Road Home
June 25, 2005 Google Bomb Backfires
June 24, 2005 Venomous Mammal Discovered in Alberta
June 18, 2005 The Quakers Support Same Sex Marriage
June 16, 2005 The Mystery of the Lost Heads
June 11, 2005 The Conservative Critique Ia - Urban Affairs Redux
June 10, 2005 No Joy. Just (Temporary) Relief
June 8, 2005 At the CMPA Conference in the Old Mill
June 7, 2005 Welcome Back!
June 6, 2005 Liberal. Tory. Same Old Story.
June 3, 2005 The Conservative Critique II: Same Sex Marriage
May 31, 2005 Late Night
May 30, 2005 The Conservative Critique I - Urban Affairs
May 28, 2005 The Barons of Suburbia
May 24, 2005 Why Harper's Strategists Have It Backwards
May 21, 2005 Where Do We Go... From Here?
May 19, 2005 They Live!!!
May 19, 2005 Tipping Point?
May 18, 2005 What Stephen Harper is Thinking Right Now
May 17, 2005 My reaction upon hearing that Belinda Stronach had crossed over to the Liberal Party
May 15, 2005 An Open Letter to Karen Redman, MP Kitchener Centre
May 14, 2005 Judy Sgro Vindicated (Well, Almost)
May 13, 2005 Ontario Voters are not Stupid
May 11, 2005 A vote to hold a vote of non-confidence...
May 8, 2005 On the Sixtieth Anniversary of V-E Day.
May 7, 2005 The Ultimate in Suck
May 6, 2005 The Sound of One Hand Slapping Forehead Repeatedly
May 5, 2005 Breaking the Blocs
May 4, 2005 How to Keep the Scary Suit Off Stephen Harper
April 28, 2005 What Harper Should Have Said
April 25, 2005 So long, Paul. It's been nice... actually, no it hasn't.
April 22, 2005 Breaking the Log Jam II
April 19, 2005 Liberals to Perform Emergency Surgery?
April 17, 2005 Warren, You Go Too Far
April 14, 2005 Breaking the Log Jam?
April 9, 2005 In Praise of Other
April 8, 2005 A Dearth of Leadership
April 5, 2005 Oh, For Heaven's Sake!
March 18, 2005 I was feeling especially patriotic...
March 13, 2005 Defending (Oh, God) McGuinty
March 10, 2005 Credit Where It's Due
March 5, 2005 Tragedy
March 2, 2005 Never Apologize for Prudence
March 1, 2005 Standing Up For A Terrorist
February 25, 2005 Okay, This is Just Weird...
February 24, 2005 The Centrists' Manifesto II
February 21, 2005 Irrelevance
February 17, 2005 The Best Game You Can Name?
February 11, 2005 The Four Ring Circus
January 23, 2005 Walking on Water
January 22, 2005 Demonizing Decent People
January 17, 2005 47,973
January 8, 2005 The Perils of Making Champagne Vinegar
December 31, 2004 2004 in Review
December 9, 2004 Summing Up Canada/US Relations
December 7, 2004 Incoming Asteroid? Bruce Willis Will Stop It!
November 18, 2004 Carolyn Parrish Kicked Out of the Liberal Caucus
November 6, 2004 André Bellavance
November 1, 2004 A Compelling Canadian Political Thriller. Who'da Thunk It?
October 23, 2004 Crossfire Gets Blown Away
October 21, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity IV:
Did Free Trade Work?
October 19, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity III:
Is Taxing Consumption Key?
October 18, 2004 Okay, It Was a Dumb Idea, and Now I'm Ticked.
October 17, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity II:
Are Balanced Budgets More Important than Tax Cuts?
October 16, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity: What's Our Secret?
October 14, 2004 A Deep Question
October 13, 2004 Americans Need to Take a Deep Breath II
October 10, 2004 A Sample of Things I Didn't Know
October 9, 2004 "OCAP Setting a Poor Example"
October 7, 2004 Cloak and Dagger
October 6, 2004 Everybody Dance Now!
October 4, 2004 Politician in the Badlands
September 29, 2004 Canada -- no, the West's -- Looming Health Care Crisis
September 19, 2004 Why John Tory is Good For Ontario (and Dalton McGuinty)
September 17, 2004 Things You Don't Expect to See Reported in the Toronto Media
September 15, 2004 Welcome to the Echo Chamber
August 28, 2004 The Big City
August 26, 2004 In the News
August 3, 2004 The Twelve Percent Solution?
August 2, 2004 The August Civic Holiday
July 19, 2004 An Open Letter to Kasra Nejatian
June 14, 2004 Some Speech is Freer than Others
May 19, 2004 McGuinty's First Budget -- A Reluctant Thumbs Up
May 17, 2004 Proof that Blogging Has Entered the Mainstream:
May 14, 2004 The Frat Boy of Canada's Premiers
May 8, 2004 Elect Mark Who?
April 26, 2004 Rebuilding the Library
April 23, 2004 Blame Canada!
April 16, 2004 Fun With Hornets
April 15, 2004 Parody and Fair Use
April 12, 2004 A Public Private Partnership I Could Support
April 11, 2004 The Rise of Waterloo Region
April 8, 2004 Photo Radar
April 7, 2004 Another Ad Scandal
April 2, 2004 It's Time to Think Outside the Box
March 21, 2004 Stephen Harper as Gabbo
March 19, 2004 Dressed For Autumn? But it's Spring!
March 11, 2004 How to Spend a Billion Dollars Without Really Trying
March 10, 2004 Tooker Gomberg
March 9, 2004 Letter to Warren / The Centrists' Manifesto
March 5, 2004 Turks and Caicos Petition
February 24, 2004 Line of the Night
February 20, 2004 Photo of the Day
February 17, 2004 Hazzah!
February 15, 2004 Playing the Lottery
February 11, 2004 A Shot Across the Bow
February 9, 2004 Bats in the Belfry
February 7, 2004 Patience...
February 4, 2004 What He Said
February 2, 2004 Top Blogs!
January 27, 2004 David Orchard's Lonely Quest
January 26, 2004 Organic Weekend Happenings
January 24, 2004 Canada's Howard Dean?
January 15, 2004 As Paul Martin Leads From the Right, He Loses From the Left
January 13, 2004 Carnival of the Canucks V - Now Up
January 8, 2004 Canadian Politics: Mix Well and See What Happens
December 30, 2003 Leadership Aspirations vs. Survival Aspirations
December 23, 2003 Free Advice For Our Prime Minister
December 20, 2003 Bias in the Search of Bias
December 18, 2003 Disappointment II (and a little anger)
December 13, 2003 PM now our PM this very PM
December 11, 2003 It Pays to Read the Fine Print
December 10, 2003 Unite What Right?
December 7, 2003 Fun With Google
December 5, 2003 Diefenbaker and Trudeau, Part II
November 25, 2003 When Did This Happen?
November 23, 2003 Disappointment
November 15, 2003 New Leadership
October 30, 2003 Plunketing?
October 29, 2003 Interview with a VampBlogger
October 28, 2003 The Death of Fear
October 8, 2003 Izzy Asper Dead at 71
September 29, 2003 No Remnants This Time.
September 29, 2003 Some Facts About Canada
September 21, 2003 Political Conversations about the Governor General
August 30, 2003 Masters of Bad Timing
August 26, 2003 The Myth of the Liberal Surplus
August 24, 2003 Random Points for August 24
August 23, 2003 Random Stuff for August 23
August 22, 2003 The Myth of the Liberal Deficit
August 14, 2003 The Blackout of 2003
August 12, 2003 The Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and ESPECIALLY Churchill Falls
August 1, 2003 Wasn't that a Party?
July 14, 2003 All News is Local, Somewhere
June 2, 2003 The Party Ain't Over / Or It Was Over a Long Time Ago
May 13, 2003 A Place to Stand, A Place to Grow
May 11, 2003 Salvation For A Dollar
April 25, 2003 More Words About SARS
April 24, 2003 So, WHO Overreacted?
April 2, 2003 SARS (No Symptoms Here)
February 28, 2003 An Open Letter to Carolyn Parrish
February 19, 2003 The Federal Government Ignores Our Cities, Again
February 5, 2003 Here's To the American-Canadians
January 13, 2003 The Canadian Senate Followup / I Pity B.C.
January 11, 2003 The Canadian Senate III - Constitutional Implications
January 8, 2003 The Canadian Senate II - Balancing the House
January 6, 2003 The Canadian Senate I - The Sleeping Giant
December 17, 2002 My Toronto Includes Canada
December 11, 2002 The Billion Dollar Rounding Error
December 6, 2002 Guns Kill People
December 3, 2002 We're All a Bunch of Morons!!
October 23, 2002 We Weren't Supposed to Go There
October 22, 2002 The Dangers of Political Hyperbole
August 22, 2002 Getting Better Today
August 16, 2002 Lets All Stick Together Until We Come Apart
July 31, 2002 Chretien Should Widen His Mind, Not Our Highway.
July 12, 2002 Breathe Easier
June 21, 2002 Jean and Joey
June 20, 2002 Conrad! All is Forgiven!
June 18, 2002 Give Me Something to Vote *For*
June 18, 2002 Navigating Around the Rocks
June 17, 2002 King Jean
June 3, 2002 God Save the Queen
June 2, 2002 Take a Walk in the Snow
June 2, 2002 Dangerous Liberals
May 2, 2002 The Green Democrats
March 21, 2002 You Can't Always Get What You Want