stephen harper
Beane Counters – Grantland “The team has been remarkably successful since, winning six division titles and making seven playoff appearances in the past 17 years. The A’s have managed that sustained excellence despite consistently fielding one of the game’s smallest payrolls, and they’ve done so by constantly staying ahead of … Read More
Somewhere in Ottawa, a red phone rang. Stephen Harper’s aides looked up and said, “My God! The Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve!” [Bloomberg]
Unless you spent Monday beneath a rock, you already know that Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party earned its first parliamentary majority this week. It’s hard to imagine a more favourable outcome for the formerly put-upon PM: his party has 167 seats, two of the three men he stared down (or avoided … Read More
According to the Canadian Press, hosting a G20 summit means 10,000 hotel rooms in your city or region will be rented to dignitaries, functionaries, media members and protesters from around the world. That struck the dispassionately neutral side of my brain as an interesting fact; an astounding one, even. But … Read More
