I’ve been feeling pretty disgusted lately with our world, given our impending climate doom and the humanitarian crises and wars going on. Those pungent testaments to our profound failures as a species (from which not one of us can be excluded) make me angry, disgusted and sad. However, something
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Politics and its Discontents: Happy Thanksgiving
And let us give thanks that we do not live in the Benighted States of Amerika. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Hits Keep Coming
If the Doug Ford government has any credibility left (a big IF), it has taken yet another hit, thanks to a Star investigation. Uncovered is yet another example of the cronyism that should be anathema in any healthy democracy: the weighting of The Species at Risk Program Advisory Committee with Ford’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: No Friend To The Environment
Readers will know that Ontario premier Ford cares little for environmental matters. One remembers his rash act upon assuming power of enthusiastically tearing up 750 green energy contracts, costing Ontario taxpayers over $230 million. “I’m so proud of that,” Ford said of his decision. “I’m proud that we actually
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Keeping Up The Pressure
Fires are burning in the House of Ford (not the fashion mogul’s, but rather the corrupt and incompetent one that ‘rules’ our province). That increasing attention is being paid to the sometimes smoldering, sometimes white-hot combustions is attributable to citizen awareness, ceaseless probing by NDP leader Marit Stiles and her
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: John Kelly Reveals All
In addition to the blatant corruption of the Ford cabal, my other ongoing obsession is with all that Donald Trump represents for a rapidly-declining Amerika. Here, John Kelly, his former chief of staff, confirms things we already know about the morally-diseased wannabe dictator who, by the way, recently opined that shoplifters
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Never Letting Go
The uproar over the Greenbelt theft has died down to a seething anger, despite Doug Ford’s promise to restore it. There is ongoing anger over the fact that he lied to us, anger over his apology for having made “a mistake,” anger that he was willing to overlook the environmental
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ford’s Ongoing Legacy
Some of you, especially if you live outside of Ontario, are likely tired of hearing about the Greenbelt Scandal. Since I reside in the province, its tentacles of corruption continue to both rivet and repel me. Global News political reporter Colin D’Mello has been providing consistently good coverage of Ford’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: ‘Nuff Said
And today’s thought comes us from the mighty Moudakis: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Not In A Forgiving Mood
As I wrote in my previous post, I am not in a forgiving mood, now that Doug Ford, in order to desperately try to salvage his and his government’s reputation, has promised to restore and never again touch the Greenbelt. Judging by a flurry of letters appearing in the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are We Supposed To Be Grateful?
Make no mistake about it: I am absolutely delighted that the Ford cabal has, albeit quite belatedly, seen the light and is restoring the pilfered Greenbelt lands. But, like puppies receiving scraps from the table of a master who regularly abuses us, are we supposed to submissively wag our tails,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What Happened In Vegas
… didn’t stay in Vegas. Consequently, another one bites the dust. Dean Blundell explains all: The corruption obviously runs deep, and it runs from the top down. Doug the Slug is holding another news conference this afternoon. Given how deep the premier is in to the developers, expect only the usual
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sometimes It’s Difficult To Know
Sometimes it’s difficult to know what is going on in the mind and motivation of Ontario premier Doug Ford. Is he merely a benighted soul who embraces a simple mantra of ‘private sector good, public sector bad’? Is he incapable of grasping the perilous climatic times and food challenges in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Now This Is How You Make A Commercial
Just a change of pace for today. Besides, have you ever seen Samuel L. Jackson give a bad performance? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Makes Perfect Sense To Me
What’s good for the silly goose should be good for the gander, eh? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Yet Another Inconvenient Truth
crimes against humanity a deliberate act, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale. One hardly knows where to begin, but one knows how it ends, at least in Ontario. The consequences of the Doug Ford cabal’s depredation of the Greenbelt will
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Not Exactly As Advertised
Despite all of Doug Ford’s bluster and lies about how important the Greenbelt is to meet his goal of building 1.5 million new homes in the next 10 years, the reality of real estate in Ontario, indeed, in Canada as a whole, offers a quite different picture. So far this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Yet Another Post About Corruption
H/t Patrick Corrigan I’m fairly certain that readers who have stuck with me during my protracted postings on the Doug Ford corruption scandal are growing a bit weary of my apparent monomania. I don’t blame you. Even I get tired of writing about a situation that seems to have
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’ll Be Watching You
Woke up this morning thinking of some lyrics from The Police: … Every move you makeAnd every vow you breakEvery smile you fakeEvery claim you stakeI’ll be watching you Then I found this: Sometimes, the surveillance state, when it is a force for good, has its advantages, eh? Here is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Unabated Fury
If the people of Hamilton are any indication, the citizen fury against Doug Ford’s brazen and corrupt theft of Greenbelt lands continues unabated. In a meeting ostensibly called to get input into the kinds of benefits the city should negotiate with provincial minions, compromise and collaboration were the last things
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