Jay Currie

Our pal Dawg has an interesting post up on Democracy. The comment thread is promising.

A key question in democracy is how it interacts with the concept of egalitarianism and, of course, self interest.

So, a couple of questions for my commentors:

Imagine a politician gave you a choice between everyone being 5% better off or you, personally, [...]

A.J. Strata has a round up of the assorted collapses in the IPCC’s “settled science”; our own Kate McMillan rounds up the gates slamming on the IPCC’s fingers; various investigations have been launched into “Team” conduct and the Met Office has taken control of the CRU temperature series from the now discredited East Anglia professors.

None [...]

Mr Blunkett, in his comments to The Times, warned that the Conservatives had an “absolutely clear strategy for buggering us after the next election” if they win power. He said this involved capping all donations, including those from the unions, Labour’s financial mainstay, at £100,000. Other measures such as redrawing constituency boundaries to the Conservatives’ [...]

Great to see that CAF, having characterized assorted Cabinat Ministers as “Professional Whores” will be popping by the stroll on Parliament Hill. Here’s a price guide…But, remember, you can always bargain on the tip.

CPC Cabinet ….if you have to ask you can’t afford it
CPC BackBench…Courtesan rates and wire transfers only
Liberal Shadow Cabinet…Well, big spender, for [...]

At a time when he needed to look reassuring, to look prime ministerial, he looked exactly the way the Conservatives have been trying to portray him – like the leader of some sort of third-rate coup, being filmed in his hideout with one of his accomplices sticking a cheap video camera in his face. [...]

I was in Guelph last Friday for a meeting. I wish I had met Frank Valeriote then. Maybe someday soon.

Here’s another brave man, Michael Chong, from the other side of the aisle. We were at a wonderful Sikh wedding last weekend, and Michael was there – and I can attest to the fact that he, [...]

Ezra has an ear to the ground…at length; but here is the money shot,

I am optimistic today. I see the divide between the Parliamentary “community” – the Liberals and their base in the media on the one hand – and real Canadians on the other. The Liberals and their chorus in the media are just [...]

Prime Minister Stephane Dion? Somehow, the guy who’s not leader enough to lead his own party is apparently leader enough to the lead the whole country. It seems the more prudent idea would be for the Liberal party to choose a real leader before signing onto an 18-month coalition that would include three completely ideologically [...]

LJ: Mike, I think we gotta problem here.
MI: Me too. Where do you see it?
LJ: Well we’ll know better when we have the polls but the only people who think the Coalition is a good idea seem to live in either Toronto or Ottawa.
MI: I live in Toronto and Ottawa and I’m a bit uneasy.
LJ: [...]

From Metblogger Jeffery Simpson

As 50 million storage lockers filled to capacity with consumer crap are emptied in a desperate move to reduce expenses and raise cash, the value of literally everything ever manufactured will fall to near-zero. charles hughes smith

Are there really 50 million storage lockers in America? Are there 5 million in Canada? I doubt it. [...]

Kady O’Mally is live blogging the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Great fun! No, really.

To get the Party name on the ballot – which is important because a lot of the Real Tory candidates will be more than a little obscure – you have to conform to the registration provisions of the Canada Elections Act. You have to have a party leader, a chief agent, an independent auditor, officers [...]

Three senior Canadian members of the 2007 Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are calling on Elizabeth May to lead Greens to make the difference in more than 50 close ridings where the Conservatives are set to win with a fraction of the expected Green Party vote. The leading Canadian climate scientists [...]

Watching people galvanize around the free speech issue brought up by the CHRC’s trampling of free speech in Canada I have been struck by the consensus which many bloggers have displayed. While we have no time for neo-Nazi action, we have a great deal of time for Canadian citizens right to speak. And we have [...]