Trapped in Suburbia…

a blog by Rafael Gomez

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IT guy, code monkey, husband, father, target shooter, but unfortunately not independently wealthy.


Archive for the 'Politics' Category

What was Paul Dewar thinking?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Stephen Taylor was blogging from the NDP national convention and reported the following: Another striking moment came during the international policy discussion portion when NDP MP Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre) suggested that Tamil actions in blocking traffic in Ottawa and occupying a highway in Toronto were legitimate methods for Tamils to get the attention of [...]

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It’s getting crowded at the trough…

Friday, August 14th, 2009

The whole eHealth thing has been in the news for a while, so much so that it’s getting a little old. Luckily, Dalton and crew are loathe to disappoint. Today, just when I was thinking the latest scandal was getting a little old, someone sent me a link to an article on the Ontario Ministry [...]

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More eHealth Shenanigans.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

The fact that the Ontario Liberal Government’s eHealth plan appears to have been nothing more than a mechanism to shovel money into friendly pockets isn’t news anymore. But what is news is that Dalton McGuinty and Health Minister David Caplan appear to have been lying when they suggested PriceWaterhouseCooper was retained to perform an independent [...]

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Guns… they make you deader?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

It’s been over 10 years since I left the hallowed halls of academia. That being the case I may not be current on the latest trends in creative statistical-analysis. I’m fairly certain, however, that logic has been around since Aristotle. Sadly it doesn’t seem like IANSA’s Elizabeth Mandelman – a Masters student at the Hubert [...]

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Coincidence, I’m sure.

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Yesterday I mentioned that the Courtyard Group, a consulting company founded partly by former Ontario Liberal campaign chair John Ronson, had received $4-million in untendered contracts from eHealth Ontario. In completely unrelated news the Globe and Mail reports: The Ignatieff Liberals have raised $3.9-million in the second quarter for this year, four times the amount raised [...]

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