Author: Matt Guerin

Olivia Chow speaks with supporters I am quite disappointed with the mediocre results former mayor John Tory achieved for the city of Toronto.    In eight years, Tory mostly dithered while the city was going to shit.  Apparently, he worked long hours but I don’t know what he actually achieved that

Today’s tonic: “York’s Catholic school trustees are abusing their power by refusing to raise the Pride flag. Their day of reckoning is coming,” by Martin Regg Cohn I couldn’t  agree more with the columnist on this.   It’s long past time for an Ontario leader to be brave enough to take

Tonight’s tonic: “Debunking three big myths about bike lanes” by Taylor C. Noakes, a public historian and independent journalist. I couldn’t agree more with these facts.  Enough of the neo-con nonsense that Mark Saunders is spouting in this election, which is just being pushed to divide Torontonians against Torontonians simply

Today’s tonic: “The Leap: Alberta Conservative Lee Richardson on Why He’s Voting NDP” “Policy: Why won’t you be voting for Danielle Smith?  “Richardson: I am a Conservative, a Progressive Conservative in the Peter Lougheed tradition. Danielle is not a Conservative. “Sadly, she is not the Danielle Smith I first knew

Today’s tonic by Edward Keenan: “Mark Saunders says he cares about ‘public safety.’ So why is he gunning for bike lanes?”  “If you ask me what I think the rationale behind Mark Saunders’s mayoral campaign appears to be — so far, at least — I’d say it’s to be a

This weekend’s tonic from Chantal Hebert:  “Is it time to step down? Five questions about Justin Trudeau’s future as he marks 10 years as Liberal leader…none of the would-be successors to Trudeau commands an audience quite as large as his own. That is particularly true in Quebec, a province central

Today’s tonic from (gulp) Warren Kinsella: “Francois-Philippe Champagne, aka Franky Bubbles, key to Liberals avoiding extinction“ I haven’t been agreeing much with Warren these last few years, but the guy has always been super smart and I have to admit he’s on the right track here.   I can’t ignore the

In a surprise move, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has declared himself a “gatekeeper,” quit his job as Conservative Party Leader and exited federal politics.   He’ll be moving on to become executive assistant to Tiff Macklem, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, as of Monday morning.  “I woke up from

This week’s tonic by columnist Andrew Mitrovica: “Canada’s spies and the hypocrites who adore them – Did China interfere in Canada’s elections? We don’t know. But journalists must not rely on friendly leaks for the truth.”  “I am the author of one of two books of any consequence written about

Today’s tonic from Taylor C. Noakes is a public historian and independent journalist: “20 years after the Iraq War, it’s clear our elites learned no lessons…Two decades on from the deceit and disaster of a war that claimed as many as one million Iraqi lives, no one has been held

This article, “Neither Trudeau nor Poilievre is shooting straight these days”, by Shachi Kurl, President of the Angus Reid Institute, made me think a lot about the next federal election in Canada. It lays bare the many recent mistakes and inherent flaws of Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre: “The prime minister

What a thrill!  Yesterday, I was so happy to be there when Ontario Liberals at their Annual General Meeting in Hamilton voted overwhelmingly to change our party’s leadership election process to allow every Ontario Liberal member a say in the final decision who becomes leader.  It was a truly momentous

Former Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty Ontario Liberals meet this weekend in Hamilton for their 2023 Annual General Meeting to again consider whether to open up and reform their party’s leadership process to end archaic delegated conventions and bring in a Weighted One Member One Vote system for electing the leader.  

Tonight’s tonic: “John Tory goes up in flames as Doug Ford hides in a smokescreen”   “But who would have thought that Ford would be foolish enough to hobnob with high rollers in his own home while the Greenbelt is in play? No matter how much Ford blinds himself to

Tonight’s tonic: “Controversial north Yonge bike lanes made permanent by city council” I wrote about this last month, calling for the Midtown Yonge Complete Street pilot project to be made permanent.  Today, Toronto City Council did just that, listening to the city’s data showing cycling and pedestrian use of the

Oh, it must suck a bit to be an Ontario New Democrat these days.   After dropping 10 points in the popular vote (and losing about 800,000 votes) between the 2018 and 2022 provincial elections, as well as losing almost 25% of their seats, former NDP Leader Andrea Horwath finally quit

Today’s tonic:  COVID-19 misinformation cost at least 2,800 lives and $300M, new report says The report — released by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), an independent research organization that receives federal funding — examined how misinformation affected COVID infections, hospitalizations and deaths between March and November of 2021. The

Today’s tonic: “Seriously, why should we care about anything Twitter trolls have to say?” by @reggcohn https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2023/01/23/seriously-why-should-we-care-about-anything-twitter-trolls-have-to-say.html #cdnpoli #Twitter

Today’s tonic: “Will the real Pierre Poilievre please stand up?” by @konradyakabuski  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-will-the-real-pierre-poilievre-please-stand-up/ #cdnpoli #Quebec

For decades, many parts of Toronto have been dangerous for most cyclists and pedestrians. Slowly, thanks to the leadership of community activists and many others, we continue to see gradual improvements to our road infrastructure that promotes safety for all.  While a fully integrated network of bike lanes that connects