American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
EXCESS COPYRIGHT (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Here's an scary and ill-informed interview on CTV Power Play ironically on Friday the 13th at about the 3:30 mark with with former Liberal & Tory Minister David Emerson and interviewer Tom Clark. Somebody has misinformed Clark a lot about Canadian law - and fed him lots of property talk about "theft" and "stealing." Tom Clark wonders why we can't bring in a law to "prevent...
Creekside (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Gordo's four new "green wash energy advisory task forces" will have just two months to come up with the goods to make running air-conditioners in California the "cornerstone" of BC's renewed green energy revolution. . "If you can do it faster, great," he said from the the B.C. Independent Power Producers' annual conference. . For the environmental perspective, we now go...
Vive le Canada (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
David Emerson's advice to Canadians about building "Canadian" technologies for world markets sounds very like one more argument for selling out the country.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
La Presse discovers that the current order of succession should the Prime Minister be unable to fulfill his duties is as follows: Lawrence Cannon, Jim Prentice, Chuck Strahl, Peter MacKay, Stockwell Day. Two years ago, when Kady looked at the list as it was then, the order of succession went Cannon, Prentice, Rob Nicholson, David Emerson, [...]
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Last week, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach named former federal minister David Emerson to chair a blue-ribbon panel on the province's economic future over the next three decades. In an e-mail interview, Mr. Emerson explains why he took the job on, and responds to critics skeptical about how much the panel will really achieve
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Last week, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach named former federal minister David Emerson to chair a blue-ribbon panel on the province's economic future over the next three decades. In an e-mail interview, Mr. Emerson explains why he took the job on, and responds to critics skeptical about how much the panel will really achieve
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
If a committee, as former British Clerk of the House of Commons Barnett Cocks once colourfully suggested, is a “quiet cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled,” then Alberta is the Boston Strangler of policymaking. Premier Ed Stelmach announced last week the appointment of yet another blue-ribbon panel, the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy . The 12-member...
Werner Patels (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
It’s not really news anymore: Alberta is in serious trouble. No, not because of the recession, which ranks merely as an add-on to the problems caused by a premier who doesn’t know what he’s doing. The problem is the guy people know as “Premier Ed Stelmach”. Now, though, Stelmach has decided to seek professional help. No, it’s not what you’re thinking, even...
The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced Thursday the 12 members of the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy. The council will be chaired by business executive and former cabinet minister David Emerson and will consider long-term goals for Alberta and provide advice...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
David Emerson Toney took the lemons-into-lemonade route.
Creekside (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
In the late great dystopian tv show Max Headroom , whenever a crime was committed, suspects were arrested, profiled, and then the most likely perp was sentenced via a big spinning wheel of "consequences" on the tv game show that had replaced the courts. Canadian content : Hey, David Emerson, how's your "one security perimeter" Project North America coming along? .
The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
In the late great dystopian tv show Max Headroom, whenever a crime was committed, suspects were arrested, profiled, and then the most likely perp was sentenced via a big spinning wheel of "consequences" on the tv game show that had replaced the courts. Canadian content : Hey, David Emerson, how's your "one security perimeter" Project North America coming along?
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Imagine the vintage sitcom Sanford and Son somehow fusing with Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and you can get some idea of what to expect in The Soul Collector , the bright and inventive play by David Emerson Toney receiving a robust world premiere production from Everyman Theatre.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
David Toney's 'Soul Collector' finds comedy amid the discarded things in life L ike the two garbagemen who are the main characters in his newest play, David Emerson Toney spends his days picking through the discarded remnants of his own and other people's lives.
The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
We have yet another new contender in David Emerson's "Project North America" sweepstakes .: The Standing Commission on North American Prosperity or "N.A. 2050" for short : "A united effort of distinguished individuals from Mexico, Canada and the USA to provide sound economic and social policy guidance to the political leaders of the three countries for the prosperity of all...
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