Author: Matt Guerin

Tonight’s tonic: “Shine a brighter light on contract government – Ottawa’s becoming addicted to consulting firms. Other countries have rung the alarm. It’s time for the same to happen here.”  Journalist Paul Wells outlines the facts about the Trudeau government’s addiction to hiring consultants to tell them what they want

I’m a huge film fan, as many will know.  As ever since the pandemic hit, I’ve got a long list of 2022 films I still need to see.  I didn’t have time nor money to see any Toronto International Film Festival movies during the festival.  So I’ve been playing catch

Today’s tonic: “(Dis)Ordered Liberty” by Erin O’Toole.  Refreshing and I wish we had heard more of this tone from him when he was in charge of the CPC  https://erinotoole.substack.com/p/disordered-liberty  #cdnpoli 

Today’s tonic: “Putting Christ back into Christian” by Michael Coren https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/12/24/putting-christ-back-into-christian.html   #MerryChristmas, everyone!

Last night, I had the misfortune of attending the latest Gentlemen’s Club event at the Carlu in downtown Toronto. It will be the last one I ever attend.  Post-pandemic, I wanted to push myself to go to more social events to try to break free of my pandemic malaise, the

Today’s tonic: “From Musk to Truss, 2022 was the year reckless populists came crashing down to Earth”  Let’s not forget idiots Trump and Bolsonaro too.  Although we’ll have to wait in Canada until next year to let Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith know what we think of him!  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/16/musk-truss-2022-year-populists-crashed-to-earth  #Politics 

Tonight’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s sovereignty act eats at our trust in democracy. Why aren’t Conservatives calling her out?”  http://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/12/03/danielle-smiths-sovereignty-act-eats-at-our-trust-in-democracy-why-arent-conservatives-calling-her-out.html  #cdnpoli #abpoli #democracy 

Actors Rob Salerno and Trevor Ketcheson My first short film as a director Tri-Curious is now available for the world to see on YouTube as of December 1, 2022. The film spent the last 5 years available on Dekkoo, a fine, paid subscription media streaming service focused on gay male

Today’s tonic: “Former Harper adviser denounces @PierrePoilievre drug policy unveiled in video”  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-former-harper-adviser-denounces-poilievre-drug-policy-unveiled-in/  #cdnpoli 

Tonight’s tonic: @TinaKotek becomes the 2nd ever out lesbian elected as a U.S. governor. The 1st @Maura_Healey was declared the winner in Massachusetts on Tuesday night. Both strong awesome women.   https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/politics/tina-kotek-christine-drazan-oregon-governor-race-result/index.html   #USPolitics #LGBTQ

On this day of remembrance, I do feel it’s important to reflect not only on the battles of the past, but also the battles of the present.  The world faces some grave threats today from fascists and fascist wannabes who are constantly attacking democracy and progressive freedom.   Let us not

Today’s tonic: Democrats do historically well for an incumbent party in US midterms as Trumpian liars/election deniers lose in most parts of the country. The majority of Americans are not the idiots they’ve been playing on TV in recent months   https://www.salon.com/2022/11/09/are-still-angry-over-the-roe-overturn–abortion-rights-win-big-across-the-us/   #USPolitics

Tonight’s tonic: “Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics – perhaps for ever” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/liz-truss-resignation-brexit-brexitism #LiztrussResign #LizTrussresigned #politics 

Today’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s uninformed views, particularly on Ukraine, expose other concerns” https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2022/10/18/danielle-smiths-uninformed-views-particularly-on-ukraine-expose-other-concerns.html #misinformation #UkraineWar #cdnpoli #abpoli

Today’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s populist playbook: make the dominant feel marginalized” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/opinion-danielle-smith-populism-playbook-1.6617059 #extremism #rightwing #populism #cdnpoli

 Today’s tonic: “Here’s why @PierrePoilievre’s attack on the Bank of Canada is absolute nonsense” https://thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/10/08/heres-why-poilievres-attack-on-bank-of-canada-is-rubbish.html… #PierrePoilievre #cdnpolitics

Today’s tonic on the eve of #Brazil elections: “Brazil, it is time to wake up from your Bolsonaro nightmare” https://aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/10/1/brazil-it-is-time-to-wake-up-from-bolsonaros-nightmare… and Today’s reality check: “Brazil may have its own January 6 moment – or worse” https://aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/9/29/brazil-may-have-its-own-january-6-moment-or-worse… #Dictatorship #Lula13

Today’s tonic: “Cuba overwhelmingly approves same-sex marriage in referendum” #Equality #Cuba #LGBT

Today’s tonic from writer John Ivison: “@PierrePoilievre should know better than to tear down Canadian institutions…The new authoritarians are not to be found in Ottawa or Washington, but they are thriving in Beijing and Moscow” #cdnpoli #authoritarian https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-poilievre-should-know-better-than-to-tear-down-canadian-institutions

I posted these two on my Twitter late this week: Today’s tonic: “In His Desk!” Hahaha! Thank you, Lawrence O’Donnell, for what you do: “Donald Trump Got Caught With Classified Docs In His Desk” because where else would the sinister idiot hide stolen stuff? https://youtu.be/wwYV2haruoo #MarALagoFBIRaid #InHisDesk #uspoli Another tonic: