A few months ago, when every vote counted, Prime Minister Stephen Harper thought Information Commissioner John Reid was a pretty smart fellow. Harper's Conservatives campaigned on a promise to implement Reid's blueprint for a more open, accountable federal government as an antidote to the corruption and waste of the sponsorship scandal. He labelled the Conservatives' proposals "retrograde and dangerous," and warned they would erode the information commissioner's powers, make less information public, "and increase government's ability to cover up wrongdoing, shield itself from embarrassment and control the flow of information to Canadians. Why have the Conservatives broken so many promises? The government's discussion paper contends that "concerns" have been raised about Reid's proposal...
THE Savages is another movie I missed this year, but I'm inclined to say that Laura Linney should get an Oscar just on principle. Ellen Page was absolutely winning in Juno, spouting smart screwball dialogue while still being recognizably teenagerish, but she probably won't go home with Oscar just yet. [Cate Blanchett] rules as Elizabeth R, but she's the sovereign of a very weak film. (Besides, she'll be snaffling up the Best Supporting vote.) As the French chanteuse Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Marion Cotillard gives a profoundly physical performance, taking on Piaf's angular posture and convincingly aging 30 years. WE get solid work from Tony Gilroy on [Michael Clayton] and a smart, winning entrée from Juno's Jason Reitman, but they're in the "it's an honour just to be nominated" cl...
There is a clear anti-incumbent mood out there. [...] NDP endorsements in Winnipeg's elections didn't provide a scintilla of benefit to the recipients.
... of the folks eligible actually showed up to vote. I wonder what that statistic is telling us?. For ...Maybe the smart ones are staying at home and choosing to ignore th...
...(111) Following a 1915 vote by Alaskans, Congress passed the "Bone Dry Law" ba...(169) Others, including Smart and Ogborne (170) and Saggers and Gray, (171) have...
So Frances Russell sees herself as someone with a big mind and a big heart who encourages us to accept Stéphane [Dion]'s carbon Green Shift plan, even though we're not smart enough to understand it. I wonder if Russell could explain to all of us then, as a preliminary argument before we "do something" about carbon dioxide, the science behind why we should be taxed on carbon dioxide emissions. Please explain, with reference to specific scientific research papers, why she is convinced that carbon dioxide has any impact whatsoever on the global climate. The language of the bully seems to come very readily to Prime Minister Stephen Harper when his will is thwarted. When, for the third time in a year, his government was found legally offside in its efforts to emasculate the powers of the C...
... that it might make sense to hold a vote where the choice is clear, without resorting to tr...
...Le parlement a voté une loi pour constituer la Compagnie de chemins de... de mise en oeuvre de la déclaration Smart Border adoptée par le Canada et les États-Unis e...
The Dominion Institute survey found that 30 per cent of young people don't vote because they feel they don't know enough. That doesn't stop a lot of older voters, mind you. So that part is our fault. But there's blame enough to spread around. The institute also says high schools should be teaching mandatory civics classes, informing kids how our political system works. If you have teenagers, you're probably already aware some of them don't know you cast a vote for your Member of Parliament, not directly for Prime Minister. It's the political parties themselves who should be the most concerned. This cohort may look like a gang of basement-dwelling slackers to middle-aged guys in sweater vests, but they're smart, they're entering the workforce in droves and if you don't do something to ap...
Perhaps this is the time to look back with nostalgia at ND Lea's traffic study done for Waverley West in 2003. Gone are Smart Growth features like rapid transit and easy pedestrian access to a town centre that may or not be built. With all the attention on the Kenaston underpass (and the inevitable Waverley underpass) there are unnoticed, sobering projections in the ND Lea study. While 41 per cent of projected automobile trips out of Waverley West will be north on Waverley and Kenaston, 50 per cent of local automobile trips will be east on Bishop Grandin (38 per cent) and on Bison Drive (12 per cent). Bishop Grandin will need six traffic lanes by Year 10 of the build-out, and eight lanes by Year 25. The existing bridges over the Red River make this impossible. An already congested Pembi...
... lost, he blamed "money and the ethnic vote." As a former federal minister and as president of...
We're good at this process; it's a cool job," says [Zack Werner], while en route to Toronto's Pearson Airport to catch a flight west for this weekend's Canadian Idol tryouts in Winnipeg. "There are days that can be very draining, when you get the 50-to-1 ratio of awful to good, but mostly it's still a good job. "Winnipeg is one of those cities that's caught in sort of a strange bind when it comes to its size and its perception of itself," Werner explains. "It's really hard to motivate the people of Winnipeg who believe that their taste in music is so cool -- and it generally is -- to actually get up and vote. If somebody actually makes it through to the Top 22, Winnipeg is in that strange situation of being big enough and cosmopolitan enough that you can't just turn on the whole city ...
... it's from Winnipeg; Winnipeggers are smart enough to know when to champion something from Win...
It's not that Albertans are so enamoured of [Stephen Harper]. For years, the plaintive cry in this parts was "The West wants in." But somehow, electing a prime minister from Calgary didn't give Albertans quite the feeling of inclusion they were longing for. Many of Harper's most loyal Reform supporters have felt betrayed by their leader, exasperated at his flip-flops on ideological matters. Nonetheless, come election day, expect the majority of Alberta voters to vote Conservative. There's no credible right-wing party to attract the disillusioned Reform-era voters. And Stphane Dion, despite valiant and repeated visits to Alberta, has yet to convince voters that his Green Shift carbon tax program isn't just a wealth transfer to funnel Alberta tax dollars to other parts of the country. Alb...
...In this horse race, the smart money's on ennui. Paula Simons is a member of the ...
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