Author: Cam Holmstrom

2020 has been a crazy year so far, and maybe the continual piling of crap coming from it is wearing on me. Or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and my tolerance from rhetorical trash is quickly reducing. Whatever the reason, I’m finding my patience with some people petty garbage

It’s 2020 and there are many things that are normal parts of our society today that just weren’t decades ago. We’ve progressed a lot as a society and we’ve got a lot to be proud of there. But as with anything when it comes to progress, some don’t get the

As our fight against Covid-19 continues apace we’ve slowly started to see some activities come back to normal faster than maybe we would have hoped. One is the behaviours in our politics, which after this week seem to be pretty much back to the pre-Covid normal. When Covid-19 hit, we

The Covid-19 global pandemic & the economic crisis that followed from it has been hard on everyone. We’ve seen millions of people lose their jobs, certain industries shuttered and so many families put into the hardest times they’ve ever seen, all as a part of our fight to slow this

If there is anything we can say with certainty about our times is that they are very uncertain. Covid-19 has turned a lot of things on its head and we’ve been doing our best to respond to this challenge, the likes of which we haven’t faced for generations. While we’ve

All over the country we’re starting to see a slow re-opening of many parts of society as we adjust to living with Covid-19. Every province is taking different approaches, some being more aggressive than others. While Quebec has gone as far to re-open many schools on Monday, today neighbour Ontario

As a keen observer of politics all over the place, it has been interesting for me to watch how certain political leaders have managed to respond to the Covid-19 global pandemic and it’s fall out. Some politicians have done better than anyone expected, others have been par for the course

Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Doug Ford flaunting Covid-19 health rules for the second time, the responsibility that political leaders have to set the example for everyone else & the latest

During the battle against Covid-19 we’ve seen very few examples of poor behaviour when it’s come to our political leaders working together. We’ve seen some in Ottawa involving partisan spats and in Alberta we’ve seen some too. But for the most part, it has been collegial, and our elected officials

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the latest on the provinces beginning to ease COVID-19 restrictions, the risky return of school in Quebec & the latest announcement from Ottawa for large businesses. You

Through out our fight against Covid-19 we’ve seen so many people rise to the challenge of these times, make big sacrifices and do whatever they can to help their communities. We’ve seen great stories of self-sacrifice and work on the behalf of us all, doing hard things that most of

It’s almost hard to believe that for many of us we’re starting our third month living with the measures to fight Covid-19. It was two months ago today that Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that the province was closing schools, a watershed moment in this province where things really started

When the history of Canada’s fight against Covid-19 is written, after all of this is done, part of that history will tell the tale of those who shone in this moment, selflessly rising to the challenge and giving of themselves in the service of all.  That same history will also

We’ve reached the point during the Covid-19 pandemic where governments are starting to have deeper conversations about re-opening things and re-starting some economic activities that have been shut down since mid-March. With no clear guidebook about how to do this, that’s leaving different governments to take different approaches, going from

As we have been battling Covid-19 we’ve seen many things happen that Canadians can be proud of. As someone who worked and volunteered in politics for over a decade, one of the things that I’ve witnessed that made me particularly proud to see as a Canadian has been our political

We’re living in hard times that are full of so much uncertainty for so many. Covid-19 has turned the lives of millions of Canadians on its head and that’s forced government and society to step up to help. When you think of the scale of the work that has been

It was just a bit more than a week ago that I had the sad duty to report here on the sad inaction taken by the council of the City of Dryden. They had a motion of censure before them regarding disgraceful Senator Lynn Beyak, who is from Dryden and

Yesterday here at this blog I wrote a piece about how certain political figures have shown an inability to look past their partisan stereotypes in order to rise to the moment. The example yesterday came from Conservative leader & his cold comments about cutting back emergency benefits to “incent” people

As we have been fighting Covid-19 there have been some interesting developments in how we have reacted to certain things that would be normally be a part of our political discourse. Before all of this, we’d hear some pretty cold and callous comments from some politicians about helping the poor

Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the slow start of re-opening from Covid-19, the differences we’re seeing in each province, the push back Quebec is facing in some sectors, when is the