Author: Peter Lowry

We need a leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition for Ontario. Applicants must have qualifications and strong desire to replace current incompetent as premier. Political leaning should be to the left. The voters have had enough guff from conservatives. Applicants must be adult individuals, qualified to vote in Ontario with

Alberta premier Danielle Smith won this week’s prize. That would be the case if we had a prize for the dumbest statement of the week by a provincial premier. It seems we have a constant three-way contest between Doug Ford in Ontario, Danielle Smith in Alberta and François Legault in

You can always have a laugh when another conservative goes on about their hate for red tape. They are always telling you they are going to cut it. They just don’t know which red tape they are going to cut. They will have to get back to you on that. 

Mayor John Tory of Toronto should know better. He knows premier Ford. He knows how those guys at Queen’s Park think—or don’t think, as the case may be. From the time, that buffoon premier Michael Harris downloaded the province’s social welfare costs on Toronto, the province has been taking more

Just how dumb is Ontario premier Doug Ford? We all know why and how he is screwing with our Greenbelt. We have understood his close relationships with developers. It dates back to his brother’s time in the Toronto mayor’s chair. Doug was the understudy at the time—sitting in Rob Ford’s

It is a love-hate situation. Alberta is six months away from a provincial general election and you would swear from the noise level that it is happening next week. And you wish it would. From the time in 2015 that Jason Kenney got his pick-up truck painted blue, packed his

Do you miss Elizabeth II yet? Or do you feel the emptiness of the Crown? You have to admit that Charlie is trying. After spending most of my life with some in-direct connection to being an Elizabethan, I am just not yet into Charlie and the Lovely Camilla. Nor can

It is hard to say whether Ontario premier Doug Ford is encouraging gambling in Ontario or simply doesn’t care. Either way, he is going about it all wrong. After the cautious steps during the Wynne years, the number of casinos and the way they are being run today is likely

Justice Paul Rouleau’s inquiry, doesn’t hold a candle to Tim Ralfe of the CBC during the October Crisis of 1970. Justin Trudeau’s father did not suffer fools. Ralfe was lurking with other reporters for Pierre Trudeau’s arrival at the Centre Block of the parliament buildings and he got a clear

It seems to be a regular song they sing in the United States Congress. Once again, they want to ban assault rifles. It seems useless but you have to give them credit for trying. It happens most often when there is are outbreaks of murdered children. And yet, they can

It’s a bad combination. Conservative party leader, Pierre Poilievre has been considered an ideologue. Yet, he appears to treat his ideology as dogma. He seems to accept theory as belief. In this, he is a danger to himself. When rank and file conservatives expect him to try to broaden his

For a while now, I have been wondering why I have been getting so many strange e-mails from the United States. What idiot thinks I am interested in writing a story about the supposed usefulness of the second amendment to the American constitution? This has obviously gone beyond stupid. Today

Justice Paul Rouleau of the Ontario Court of Appeal is listening to a concert of cabinet members this week at his Emergencies Act inquiry. First minister up was super cop, emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair, the former Toronto police chief. Blair is something of an expert in how police can

It is unlikely that the acquisition of Shaw by Rogers will affect my readers to any serious degree. Knowing this sometimes bothers me but I have good news for the few who can see the problem: Help is on the way. When academics such as Lars Osberg of Dalhousie come

Heh, wannabe one of Ontario premier Doug Ford’s super mayors? The line forms to the right—the far right. And you might not be quite as enthusiastic when you find that part of the inaugural process involves kissing Ford’s fat ass on the front steps of the Ontario Legislature. Besides, your

In the news media across Canada, the Toronto Star is an icon. It is a newspaper created for the working man 130 years ago and it is today, the largest circulation broadsheet newspaper in the country. And, like other news media today, it continues to re-invent itself and struggles on

This is not good news. Former president Trump is only good to write about after the fact. I like writing about politicians because, being politicians, they are predictable. Donald Trump is not a politician. Ergo, he is not predictable. Maybe, if I were a bookie, I would be happier. There

When do the pressures of inflation take major retailers from legitimate profits to price gouging? I ask this out of deep concern. I watched recently when chairman and president Galen W. Weston Jr. who runs the Loblaws food empire, with annual revenues of over fifty-three billion, made the claim that

Columnist Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star refers to Ontario premier Doug Ford as a populist. Well, he might have Cohn convinced, but you really can’t read sincerity off a teleprompter. The truth is, Doug Ford is a phony. He is a conservative with a heart of stone. Cohn

A by-election has been called for the Ontario federal electoral district of Mississauga-Lakeshore. What makes it of broader interest, is that it is a typical Ontario riding that would be a must have for the conservative’s new leader if he ever expects to get close to being prime minister. This