If the rumours are true, and today is indeed Judgment Day, then it’s been nice knowing you, and I hope you get judged well. Kate and I are still in the UK, so unfortunately I won’t get to see most of my friends and loved ones again before the big event. On the other hand, […]

I’m not very good at delegating the workload I’ve created for myself. I’ll be the first to say so. It’s one of the things I need to work on, and I’m in a good position to do so, because I’m lucky enough to know my share of hard working, capable, creative people. One of those […]

In spite of my earlier promises, I haven’t posted much on this blog this week. What’s more, I won’t be posting much of any value for at least another week. Let me at least take a moment to tell you why. Tonight, my wife and I attended the wedding of two very good friends of […]

I haven’t been posting new content in this space as often as I’d like lately, and it’s mainly because things have been so busy over at democracy101.ca. The new blog is really taking off, thanks in no small part to a great community of readers and retweeters. If you’re one of them, then I thank […]

Speaking of Courage for the Earth, the Rachel Carson tribute featuring contributions by a wide range of her colleagues, friends and adherents, here’s an excerpt from an essay by a total Carson fanboy named Al Gore: “We have banned certain pesticides at home, but we still produce them and export them to other countries. This […]

The ol’ blog’s been a little quiet lately, and it’s going to stay that way for a little while longer. I’m at a work conference in Richmond Hill until tomorrow night, and I won’t have much time to write anything. I’ve also decided I am indeed going to make the switch to WordPress, which I’ll […]

Yesterday I threw a bone to Tony Phillips, the junior Conservative staffer who no doubt put his job and his future in politics in jeopardy by publicly complaining about the “stupidity” of his party’s communications people in perhaps the most ironic way possible. As much as I would love to see Harper get spanked in […]

Green Party member Chris Aikman, writing for the party’s admittedly hit-and-miss blog network, scored a potential hit last night by quoting a post by Guy Dauncey of EcoNews. “Coalition governments are probably the best way to govern, not the worst,” Dauncey writes. “In the European Union, 20 of the 27 member nations have coalition governments. […]

There’s a certain sad irony to a paid Conservative staffer taking to his Facebook page to condemn the “stupidity” of his own party’s communications staff. But that’s exactly what a junior staffer named Tony Phillips did last week, according to the National Post. “Can someone in the [campaign war room] please save the PM’s image […]

Writer and environmental icon Rachel Carson, perhaps best known for the seminal Silent Spring, was once accused of “ignoring God” in her 1951 bestseller on oceanography and the ecosystem, The Sea Around Us. Her reply, as quoted in the collection Courage for the Earth, was as follows: “As far as I’m concerned, there is absolutely […]