http://andrewcoyne.com/ en-us ac@andrewcoyne.com 2006-01-10T20:27:07-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004068.php Encore, le liveblogging. ... and after some technical difficulties, here we are. Martin starts by dredging up distinct society/Meech Lake. Great, let's rev up that psychodrama again. Duceppe tries to pin Unity Canada on Harper. How will he respond? Good!... 4068@http://andrewcoyne.com/ 2006-01-10T20:27:07-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004065.php Testing the MarsEdit software...... 4065@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Blogging 2005-02-18T02:51:34-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004064.php But this time with TypeKey registration turned on!... 4064@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Blogging 2005-02-14T21:28:39-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004063.php Posted with MarsEdit, which appears to be better than Ecto.... 4063@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Blogging 2004-12-11T13:36:09-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004062.php Today's rant. Yes, some of it has appeared here already... One of the dutiful journalistic clichés of our times requires reporters to note, in any story in which a cyclist is injured or killed, whether or not he was... 4062@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Safety Nazis 2004-11-24T01:10:56-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004061.php Bear with us, folks. The site is almost completely immobilized these days, but only because we're trying to fix it. ("We had to destroy the village to save it.") First pass at it was to upgrade to Movable Type 3.12.... 4061@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Blogging 2004-11-24T00:12:30-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004060.php Christo to Wrap Central Park in Fabric: NEW YORK - For two weeks in February, walkways in Central Park will be festooned with 23 miles of saffron-colored fabric gates by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in a public art... 4060@http://andrewcoyne.com/ 2004-11-22T16:33:50-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004058.php Parrish said she spoke to Martin for an hour Wednesday evening and thought things might work out because he gave her a "bear hug" as she was leaving. -- Canadian Press * * * TRANSCRIPT OF INTERROGATION Confidential: FBI... 4058@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Liberals 2004-11-20T14:15:59-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004057.php A propos of the previous item, I've posted the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's factum in their case against the Ontario premier. It's scalding reading: you could not imagine a solemner promise than McGuinty made, over and over again, to abide by... 4057@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Ethics in Government 2004-11-17T12:12:22-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004056.php Today's NP column... Perhaps the best way to describe what is at stake in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's lawsuit against the Ontario Liberal government and its much-loathed new health tax is to say what the suit is not about.... 4056@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Ethics in Government 2004-11-17T11:16:44-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004055.php As the blog slowly sinks beneath the waves of unwanted promotions for propecia, online poker and the like... I tried a plug-in called scode: couldn't figure out how to install it properly. Installed MTBlacklist: finds the spam comments, but... 4055@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Blogging 2004-11-15T17:39:34-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004054.php I can't count how many articles I've read before and since the U.S. election on what a "divided" society it is, occasionally with comparisons to pre-Civil War America. Bosh. You want to see a divided society? Here's a divided... 4054@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Security 2004-11-11T15:01:46-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004053.php An Aussie reader writes... I'm a journalist living in Perth, Western Australia. We've had [a mandatory bicycle helmet] law for 13 years now and our government data provides the world's best long-term overview of its impact in a jurisdiction.... 4053@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Safety Nazis 2004-11-11T12:33:50-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004050.php Today's column. You'll be hearing much more about this, I promise you... The other night on TSN they were showing, in lieu of the locked-out NHL, that great New Year's Eve 1975 game between the Montreal Canadiens and Central... 4050@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Safety Nazis 2004-11-10T09:38:33-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004049.php As I'm sure many of you would agree, this website sucks. Well, the jury's still out on the content, perhaps, but the mechanics of posting to this page are achingly slow, at best. These days, it seems to have given... 4049@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Blogging 2004-11-10T09:26:59-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004051.php More tales of inter-ethnic harmony from the country Stephen Harper cites as a model for Canadian federalism. The latest: a decision by Belgium's high court banning a Flemish separatist party on grounds of racism: The Vlaams Blok has risen... 4051@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Federalism 2004-11-10T09:22:35-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004048.php In a functioning federation, this sort of thing would be outlawed: N.B. government lures Molson with millions The New Brunswick government will help Molson build a new brewery in Moncton with millions of dollars in incentives, in part to... 4048@http://andrewcoyne.com/ Federalism 2004-11-09T23:32:14-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004047.php Fallujah Violence Leaves 10 Troops Dead (AP): A psychological operations unit broadcast announcements in Arabic meant to draw out gunmen. An Iraqi translator from the group said through a loudspeaker: "Brave terrorists, I am waiting here for the brave terrorists.... 4047@http://andrewcoyne.com/ 2004-11-09T22:59:01-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004046.php Post-Election, Hollywood Seen as Liability to Left... 4046@http://andrewcoyne.com/ US Politics 2004-11-07T02:20:45-05:00 http://andrewcoyne.com/archives/004045.php IS SPRINGFIELD in a swing state? Did it vote Democrat, or GOP? And what kind of demographic is suggested by blue hair? PoliticsWatch has the in-depth analysis.... 4045@http://andrewcoyne.com/ US Politics 2004-11-06T11:25:29-05:00