Stephen Harper’s Conservative caucus has been meeting in Ottawa, trying to figure out what to do next. In particular, is it still correct to talk about what the latest issue of the Ontario newsletter Inside Queen’s Park has nicely called “the pending annual contest to decide who isn’t governing Canada”? Meanwhile, the bigger brothers in the US […]
As still further evidence that extending the vote to women was a sound idea, the ladies’ home website handbag.com has compiled a tidy collection of “Bush Bloopers” – engaging examples of the mangled wit and folk wisdom of President George W. Bush.I have taken the liberty of selecting the fourteen bloopers I like best myself, on […]
As the prospect of warmer weather settles in again across the true north, the latest political rumblings of quasi-hysteria in Ottawa can start to seem beside the point. Now even Liberals are apparently unhappy about the Liberal government’s neo-Machiavellian blending of both the Kyoto and Atlantic accords with upcoming federal budget legislation. Yet a “vote […]
US actress Sharon Gless is best known as Cagney in the vintage TV series Cagney and Lacey (for those of us who can remember back that far). Last weekend’s Globe and Mail included a more timely report on her current struggles to officially immigrate to Canada. Ms. Gless does not want to be confused “with […]
One of the quieter but potentially more interesting parts of the recent federal throne speech in Canada alludes to “the social economy–the myriad not-for-profit activities and enterprises that harness civic and entrepreneurial energies for community benefit.” Paul Martin’s government argues that these enterprises can make the country’s “Cities and Communities” stronger. To help “create the conditions […]
Here at the 14th World Conference on Disaster Management, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, June 20-23, 2004, it finally dawns on you … “Disaster management” is yet another good example of an early 21st century oxymoron. Anyone who has been involved in real-world disasters will tell you they can never really be managed. Yet […]
