Category Archives: canadian politics

The Prime Minister, The Press and The Fear Disintermediation

Last week the Prime Minister announced that he would use YouTube to answer citizen submitted questions. Over the past seven days thousands of Canadians have submitted and voted on questions that they would like to Prime Minister to answer.
Is this novel or new? Not really – on a smaller scale politicians have been doing Town [...]

Today in the Globe: A Click Heard Across the Public Service

I had the following piece published in the Globe and Mail today. It’s actually better if you read it there since I could easily include the hyperlinks when blogging from my phone.
The piece can be found here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-click-heard-across-the-public-service/article1493566/
A Click Heard Across the Public Service
Quietly, without fanfare, a small but powerful seismic shift took place in [...]

Canada’s Three Tiered Healthcare System

Thanks to Premier Danny Williams’ comments, we are in another short bout of collective denial and misunderstanding of Canada’s healthcare system and the public perception thereof.
1. Denial.
For those not in the know, Premier Williams recently jaunted down to Miami for heart surgery. In his interview with NTV reporter Fred Hutton, he stated, “This is my [...]

Today in the Globe: Facebook’s Political Reach

I have the following piece published in the Globe and Mail today. It isn’t going to further endear me to Michael Valpy (who is already not impressed with me)… but felt another perspective on the issue was needed. He, like many traditional columnists, is not a fan of social – or digital – media. Indeed, [...]

Conservative Senator Talks Harm Reduction

First, for those who have not seen it Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter Foundation has an important op-ed in the Vancouver Sun titled Attention Ottawa: Insite is a health care service.
More intriguing Safe Games 2010 and the Keeping the Door Open Society (which, for full disclosure, I sit on the board of) [...]

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