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Author: Peter Lowry

February 25, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Andrea Horwath has an easy job.

Other than being insulted occasionally by Ontario’s premier-in-training, the new democrat’s Andrea Horwath seems to enjoy her continuing role as leader of the opposition at Queen’s Park. The biggest complaint we have heard about her recently is that they never answer the phones in her riding office in Hamilton. You

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February 24, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Canada doesn’t need a Governor General.

Not since the ‘King-Byng-Thing’ in the 1920s has Canada needed a governor general. The conflict between the prime minister and the governor general of the time, resulted in the Statute of Westminster of 1931 that emancipated Canada and other former colonies of the United Kingdom. It also made the post

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February 23, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Damaged Democracy.

It is catching on. This writer is delighted that more and more Canadians are starting to question our commitment to democracy. Many point to the United States and say, ‘Boy, isn’t that democracy a mess. The bad news is that our mess is no better than theirs. It is just

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February 22, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: The silence of Doug Ford’s lambs.

Sometime in the next couple months, the province of Ontario is expected to offer me the opportunity to get one or two jabs with a needle. This knowledge alone is helping to lift me out of some of my covid-19 doldrums. As I am considered to be among the more

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February 21, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: The answer to Justin’s prayer.

Just started reading Linda McQuaig’s 2019 book; The Sport & Prey of Capitalists. I have always been a fan of Linda’s. We might lean towards different parties but we seem to think alike. Somewhere in my bookshelves there is a copy of Linda’s earlier book about the quick and the

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February 20, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: They’re pissing on Ted’s legacy.

Did you know that a company that started business with giving cheap FM radios to all the advertising agencies in Toronto is today worth billions? The company was the brain child of the late Ted Rogers. He started with a FM radio station that nobody else wanted in the 1960s.

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February 19, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Beware Benevolent Business.

Business is not often built on benevolence. And no matter how badly business leaders think the government has screwed things up, Canada is not ready for fascism. Yet, Perrin Beatty, chief executive officer of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, says that big business in Canada is ready to step in

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February 18, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Our fearless leaders fix the gun problem.

Did you not see the sign as you drove into town that handguns are forbidden? That is part of the announcement that the government is banning assault rifles and municipalities are at liberty to ban hand guns. And does that make sense to you? Frankly, it is stupid. Yes, assault

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February 17, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Waiting for vaccination.

It is a stay-at-home vacation. Using depression medication. And booze for self-realization. Gotta get back to civilization. Need in-person conversation. The wife came and looked over my shoulder to see what was holding up my commentary for today. She shook her head and said, “I don’t think your readers are

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February 16, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Basic income is not dead.

As much as the Toronto Star and others might want to bury the concept of basic income, it is very much alive. When someone puts what they think basic income will cost ahead of other objections, you know they are more interested in their supposed opinion than people. It is

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February 15, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Does Singh know why O’Toole’s nice to him?

It might have been the annual event celebrating Saint Valentine, but Jagmeet Singh of the new democrats should be suspicious of all the cards he received from conservative MPs. The rationale for all this lovey-dovey, kuchi-koo business from the conservatives could only be that they need Jagmeet and his NDP

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February 14, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: While the World Watches.

It was hardly just Americans watching the fiasco of an impeachment in their senate last week. Canadians were only a small part of the international community watching the events. You can easily imagine the hourly reports arriving on the desks of Xi Jinping in Beijing and Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

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February 13, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Never upstage your leader.

Pierre Poilievre MP appears to have been demoted in the conservative ranks in parliament as it heads toward a possible spring election. Little boy blue might have made the political mistake of upstaging his leader. The member for Carleton, in the Ottawa area, has been having much too much fun

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February 12, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: An apology to Gillian Steward.

Fair is fair. For years I have thought that Gillian Steward, a freelance journalist in Calgary who frequently writes for the Toronto Star, was an apologist for the oil interests. Her scathing indictment of the Kenney government’s public enquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns the other day helped correct my opinion.

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February 11, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: The polarization of the provinces.

There is some further thinking about the TVOntario program I watched last week on the polarization of Canada. A Quebec participant had others laughing when he made the comment that Canadians really do not like each other. In the same vein, another countered that Canadians are nice, except for Albertans.

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February 10, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: In the cause of Canada.

It was an interesting program on Steve Paikin’s Agenda last week that was co-sponsored by TVOntario and the Toronto Star. It was on Canada’s prospects in sustaining its democracy. The thought was that the same pressures that affect American democracy eventually get to Canada. Well, that thought is likely to

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February 9, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Big Tech versus Big Media.

It is not as exciting as the meeting at the OK Corral. There is no shooting. And the only people shouting are the news media. They want Big Tech to stop stealing their work product. If our copyright laws where easier to enforce, it would not have even been a

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February 8, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Going where no politico dares to go.

It always amazes me when some politicians will wade into subjects about which, they know nothing at all. It is what can get them in trouble, most of the time. Take Justin Trudeau’s supposed expertise in vaccines. It is like the other day when he was assuring parliamentarians that he

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February 7, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: On the right with U.S. Catholics?

And we thought Donald Trump was a problem. What gives with those politically right-wing Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S? It turns out that those guys are criticizing their own Pope and, at the same time, their country’s new president. Is Pope Francis the last line of defense for Joe

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February 6, 2021 Peter Lowry

Babel-on-the-Bay: Did you know the campaign was on?

Jagmeet Singh has been heard from. He did not exactly come down from the mountain with tablets of stone. The new democratic party leader has decided that the low-hanging fruit of for-profit, long-term care homes was as good an issue as his party needs in the looming federal election. It

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