April 2011

Canada Votes: Good leaders, like good teachers, are hard to find

April 30, 2011 Politics

Back in high school, we had several good teachers, and also many lousy ones. One of the good ones, my math teacher for most of my high school years, was extremely strict and demanding, but students still liked him, because we could sense his passion for his subject. With an ideal balance between authority and [...]

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Canada Votes: Boost to democracy thanks to NDP surge

April 30, 2011 Politics

The gnashing of teeth among Conservatives, Liberals and Bloquistes has reached a level so high that it’s threatening to drown out most everything else. For the first time in a very long time, certainly in the lifetime of most Canadians alive today, these so-called mainstream parties get to experience real fear.

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Canada Votes: Latest Conservative smear campaign against Layton will backfire

April 29, 2011 Politics

They might feel quite smug right now, to be sure, as Conservatives in Canada tend to be at most times. But this latest attempt to destroy the reputation of a decent man who simply happens to hold different political views will probably backfire – just as their ridiculing of Jean Chrétien’s facial features cost them [...]

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Canada Votes: Ethnic pandering is offensive and racist

April 29, 2011 Politics

Thus tweeted Jason Kenney, the immigration minister before the election was called, earlier today: “Visited the Masjid Usman Pickering Islamic Centre for Friday prayers with #CPC candidate @calxandr”.

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Sorry, Naomi Lakritz, but I won’t read the Calgary Herald anymore

April 28, 2011 Business

I reported about this previously, but an update is in order. The Calgary Herald, part of Postmedia, which used to be the Canwest newspapers before it went bankrupt, boasts about its digital presence every single day, but fails to live up to its claims.

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Canada Votes: Wake-up call for Canadians on May 2, courtesy of the NDP

April 28, 2011 Politics

The Orange Revolution, that is, the inexorable surge of the NDP in the polls, is marching on at full steam ahead. Within 24 hours, the NDP went from 30% to 31% in popular support, with the Liberals falling further behind, to around 21%. At this rate, the Liberals could find themselves in the teens come [...]

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Canada Votes: Orange Revolution fully under way

April 27, 2011 Politics

It’s been compared to the Purple Revolution Calgarians engaged in in last year’s mayoral election when they overwhelmingly opted for Naheed Nenshi as mayor. Jack Layton’s rise in popularity – call it the Orange Revolution – doesn’t seem stoppable just days before election day, as a new poll shows the NDP at 30%.

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Calgary schools dropping mandatory French

April 26, 2011 Politics

Things just got a bit easier for those who want to coast through school: Calgary schools are dropping mandatory French classes.

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Power outage outrages Calgarians

April 26, 2011 Business

Around 10 a.m. this morning, the power went out for a lot of Calgarians.

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Canada Votes: Time to write Liberals’ obituary?

April 25, 2011 Politics

We have entered the home stretch: just one more week to go before Canadians head to the polls.

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