Author: Matt Guerin

Today’s tonic, hold the gin: “More than 6 drinks a week leads to increasingly high health risks…especially for women” #alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen for decades, the more alcohol you drink the more #cancer you can get. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  We’ve

Today’s tonic: “The nasty verbal assault on Chrystia Freeland tells us a lot about rage in Canadian politics” by @maxfawcett https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08/28/opinion/verbal-assault-chrystia-freeland-canadas-rage-dangerous via @NatObserver #Extremism breeds #Violence against #women in #PoliticsToday #cdnpoli

 Tonight’s tonic: “Full Kinzinger: McConnell ‘Probably’ Won’t Be Able To ‘Save The Senate’” #uspoli #Midterms2022 @AdamKinzinger https://youtu.be/LDHQqlKdT3A via @YouTube

Today’s tonic: “Tim Ryan To JD Vance: ‘Screw You, We’re Not Giving Up On The Industrial Midwest’ https://youtu.be/YEkssDtMhp4 via @YouTube Moderate Democrat @TimRyan is giving the Republican a big fight in the Ohio Senate midterm race. This video makes clear why #uspoli #Midterms2022

Today’s tonic: “Charlie Crist Speaks After Winning Florida Democratic Primary For Governor” to take on Republican fascist Ron DeSantis in this November’s midterm elections https://youtu.be/Z12qCYpTr2g via @YouTube #uspoli #FloridaPrimary #DeSantisDestroysFlorida #DeSantisIsAFascist #Midterm2022

Police call for Bolsonaro to be charged for spreading Covid misinformation.  Brazil’s federal police ask supreme court to charge president over bogus claims in October 2021 social media broadcast.   #Brazil #COVID19 #misinformation

Today’s tonic #1: “Where would @PierrePoilievre take the Conservatives? Not to the far right, but the far out” #cdnpoli #extremism Today’s tonic #2: “Instead of escalating tensions in Toronto’s High Park, we should combat the myths that lead to road fatalities” #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #BikeTO #safety #Roadsafety

Today’s tonic: Andrew Coyne’s “Donald Trump’s rendezvous with reality may be fast approaching” #CDNPoli #uspolitics #TrumpCoupAttempt

Today’s tonic: In light of today’s FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home, I thought I’d share MSNBC’s Ari Melber must-see report from a few days ago, ‘How Jan. 6 Plan Emerged From Military Coup Plot’. #uspoli #USPolitics #todaystonic #MarALagoRaid

Today’s tonic: “Ontario has a doctor shortage. So why isn’t the Ford government licensing more internationally trained physicians living here?”  https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/08/07/ontario-has-a-doctor-shortage-so-why-isnt-the-ford-government-licensing-more-internationally-trained-physicians-living-here.html  #onpoli #cdnpoli #doctors #todaystonic #foreigntraineddoctors

Starting a daily post I’ll call, “Today’s tonic”: articles that bring reason, intelligence, & common sense to counter to nonsense, lies, & bigotries currently on the rise in our society.   Starting with Dan Leger today: https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2022/08/05/conspiracy-theories-arent-theories-theyre-stories-lets-treat-them-that-way/ #cdnpoli #onpoli #uspoli #conspiracy

TVO panel June 23 on the future of Ontario Liberals I have been busy as hell these last several months.   I lost two close aunts in the late winter / early spring.  For one of them, Joan, I’ve been working in my spare time as her co-executor on her estate.  

It’s pretty simple.  After four years of government at Queen’s Park that ranged from chaotic and crazy to barely adequate, I want Doug Ford’s Conservatives out.   A little bit of a bad thing can be overcome with time.  One term of Ford has done a lot of harm, but Ontario

Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca On the one hand, I can understand why Doug Ford’s PCs continue to have a decent lead among voters as we approach the June 2nd provincial election. Many voters aren’t yet sick to death of them, and feel ambivalent or even supportive of many

My late aunt Joan Guerin This year has so far been a tough year for my family.    Just weeks after we lost Janis Murray (the youngest sister of my mother Dianne), my aunt Joan Guerin, the younger sister to my late father Fred, passed away in Peterborough, Ontario.   Joan

Spider Man hotties Holland, Garfield and Maguire The Oscars this Sunday will provide a bit of fun and distraction amid these otherwise trying times.    I’m happy to finally share my official list of Favourite Films of 2021.   I’ll be happy if I surprise you a bit.   1. Spider Man:

Jan and me at my 40th b-day party My aunt and dear friend Jan Murray passed away today after a long battle with cancer.  I took the time a couple of weeks ago to write a love letter to her: Dear Jan,  We’ve shared a lot of beautiful memories of

Far-right grown babies demand ‘freedumbs’ in Ottawa yesterday I don’t always agree with everything Althea Raj writes, but good for her today to tell this truth: “(Un)vaccinated protesters on the hill say they are tired of restrictions. I am also tired of the restrictions. We all are. I think often

I’ve always enjoyed compiling my list of Favourite Films each year.   Before COVID, it was easy for me to check out many new films long before the end of the year by attending film festivals or heading often to movie theatres.  Nowadays, the release of some films on streaming services

Ontario’s not so great premier As an Ontarian over the age of 18 whose second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine was now five months ago, today I’m eligible to get a booster shot to try to ward off the Omicron mutation and do my part to try to get my