Nov

30

Brilliant…

November 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I had never seen this before. The Honda Cog-tastic commercial.
According to the MadHacktress, where I found the link, it took 600 takes and 4.5 months. But it is real. No computer was used.
Nice.

Nov

29

Alberta Bound

November 29, 2006 | 3 Comments

Let’s see…Leader of a debt ridden, corruption plagued political party whose years in the wilderness may only just have begun or Premier of the richest province in Canada.
If Jim Dinning wins the leadership of the Conservative Party in Alberta there is a fairly good chance that Alberta will rub along in Confederation, a bit resentful […]

Nov

29

Freefall

November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

To be an English Canadian, by contrast, is to be a stranded colonist, floating untethered on the plane of human varieties. Our ties of continuity with the past were cut in the hope that the French would cooperate and drift toward us; it is indeed terrible to contemplate the betrayal of that hope and our […]

Nov

29

Brave Liberals, Men of Courage….

November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

A day after the House of Commons passed a Conservative motion to recognize the Québécois as a nation, the federal Liberals say they will not debate the contentious issue.
Liberal leadership candidates had been squabbling over their own motion, which was expected to be a flashpoint at this weekend’s party convention in Montreal.
William Hogg and Marc Belanger, who launched the move […]

Nov

28

November 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

CBC President Robert Rabinovitch says a new business model is needed to ensure the survival of over-the-air broadcasting.
Rabinovitch appeared before a Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission hearing into the future of conventional TV in Gatineau on Monday.
He proposed that traditional broadcasters receive fees from cable companies for the transmission of their programs, similar to the […]

Nov

28

Half of life…

November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

is showing up.
In principle there are 6000 plus delegate slots at the Liberals’ leadership confab. 5000 regulars and 1000 ex officio (in round numbers). But how many are going to show up? Most of the ex-officio delegates - say 900 or so - are party hacks and activists (but I repeat myself) who are more […]

Nov

27

Hail Mary

November 27, 2006 | 1 Comment

Mr. Kennedy will release a statement today expressing his opposition to the resolution as the wrong choice for Canada, according to campaign insiders, because he believes it is ill-defined and has raised a variety of interpretations that could lead to greater misunderstanding between Quebec and the rest of Canada. The motion raises expectations of future […]

Nov

25

GeoExchange

November 25, 2006 | 1 Comment

As regular readers know I am a full scale Kyoto sceptic who, never the less, for reasons of geopolitics and thriftiness believes that alternative energy is critical to the West’s survival. So I was delighted to read on Tyler Hamilton’s must read blog, Clean Break, that there is a Geo-Exchange conference coming up on November […]

Nov

25

Can of Worms - Update

November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment

“We are delighted by the fact that Canada will become the first country to officially recognize the Quebec nation. Mr. Speaker, there will be many other countries that will recognize the nation of Quebec and the country of Quebec,” Duceppe said.” cbc
The pointy thing you are feeling is what is laughingly known as the thin […]

Nov

25

Movie Accounting for the Feds

November 25, 2006 | 1 Comment

Over at Bound By Gravity Andrew raises some rather direct questions about Flaherty’s introduction of the “net debt” concept in the fiscal update.
He helpfully provides this definition from the fiscal update papers:
The full impact of public debt on the economy includes not only the federal government’s debt, but also debt of provincial-territorial and local […]

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