Welcome to an eight-week campaign

And election day is… January 23, 2006. As one veteran political organizer I spoke to this morning said, “That’s way too much underwear to buy.”* Okay, political junkies: deep breaths. Deeeeeep breaths. Calm down, and take the next two months in...

Graphical user interfaith

With all the protests that the impending federal election campaign will likely impinge on Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations, there hasn’t been one word about how badly it will interfere with the speculation over what Steve Jobs will be announcing at Macworld...

Canadian Social Research Links

The title says it all. Gilles Séguin, a retired federal public servant, has compiled an unbelievably vast collection of links on social research in Canada. From education to health care to First Nations to housing… it’s like a Yahoo! of Canadian social...

Yesterday’s alarmism is today’s common sense

Ah, nostalgia: it seems like such a short time ago that anyone who believed in fighting climate change — and meeting our commitments under the Kyoto Protocol — was an anti-business extremist who lived in some kind of socialist dream world. Time to add a...
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