When you pull apart the Ontario Climate Change plan, there’s very little to it except for new taxes, bigger costs and massive transfers to companies that don’t them. I really want it to be better, but I don’t trust the Wynne government to deliver.
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Excited Delirium: Ontario ‘Bait and Switch’ Climate Plan
Ontario has finally set into action a plan to do its bit to reduce climate change. But wait … what they’re doing is creating more electricity consumers instead of gas consumers. For those of you who know me or who follow my writings on this…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Homecoming & Double Standards
Are small towns able to deal with Homecoming events that chew up property values and perpetuate double standards with enforcement and other costs?
Continue readingExcited Delirium: About the Toronto Dispensary Busts
To be honest, I don’t think I can add a lot of context to this discussion because I’m neither a pot smoker, a pot dispensary, nor a police officer in the Toronto trying to stick to the current law of the land. That said, John Tory declared …
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Scummy Race to the Bottom Orchestrated by the Conservatives & Media
The people that pull Justin Trudeau’s wife into the limelight are the scummiest scum of the earth.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Paul Godfrey is What’s Wrong With Capitalism
Canada’s media companies give capitalism a bad name.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Lynton Crosby Stock Plummets
Something tells me Lynton Crosby will make an appearance soon in the US to support Trump and his pleasant messages about Mexicans, Muslims, women and others in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential election.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Trump and the Grand Old Puppeteers
When you look at the recent history of American Republican politics, maybe Trump is the best thing for them. Time will tell.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Saudi Ambassador: Atheism = Subversion = Terrorism
Atheists are not terrorists. We need to start a Boycott-Divestment-Sanction campaign against Saudi Arabia similar to that started against Israel.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Celebrating Easter … With a Rant Against Easter
What better way to celebrate easter Sunday than with a rant against Christianity’s most holy weekend, Easter. Easter is the mythological period during which the star performer for Christians – Jesus – is resurrected after dying on the…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Safe Injection Sites: Lots of Possibilities
What are your thoughts on safe injection sites? Many cities are about to follow Vancouver’s lead by introducing these sites as options for drug addicts. Here is my simple thought on safe injection sites: they’re not worth the effort. For …
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Understanding ‘Changes’ With Ontario’s Alcohol Business
The Ontario government’s recent changes to alcohol sales in this province are not quite as promising as they seem. The initial flurry may create some ‘good loving’ feelings for the Wynne government, but it won’t be long before we get the ‘same old, sa…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: FFS STFU About Pipelines: Rick Mercer Gets Told
Rick Mercer supporting oil pipelines? The whole topic is madness. Our economy is a basket case because we relied on oil for the last decade to fuel our economy and pocketbooks. We have to move forward and ditch oil.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: FFS STFU About Pipelines
Drop it. Just drop it. There is more to the world and Canada’s economy than oil pipelines. We don’t want them. So STFU.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: On PostMedia’s Decline
Part I: The Long, Slow Demise of PostMedia A lot of people are bemoaning the slow, painful death of PostMedia. I do not. I’m glad to see others don’t mind their demise as well. For a decade, people with this right-wing chain of second-rat…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Zeitgeist: Almost 10 Years Old
I have long been a fan and follower of many of the ideas from experts like Joseph Campbell or Mircea Eliade. I have come to believe that themes like the ‘Universal Myth’ or ‘Monomyth’ are vital to our understanding of one anothe…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Canada’s ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Moment
October 19 in Canada could be seen much the same way as the revelation experienced at the end of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. Just when the lead protagonist didn’t think things could possibly t…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: She Must Be High
Kathleen Wynne says the LCBO should be the one selling marijuana. She must be high.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: ‘Slippery Steve’ is actually ‘Sticky Steve’
I have to admit that I haven’t followed the Duffy trial as closely as some others (like Montreal Simon), but yesterday’s news report had one juicy little tidbit in it that I refuse to let go of and I’m hoping more sane Canadians and r…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Uber’s Message To Those Who Are Protected
What is it about Uber that has people rethinking their security and job protection?
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