Author: Peter Lowry

It hardly seems like Ontario premier Doug Ford’s summer is going as planned. The conservative populist is neither conserving much of what he rules over nor has he improved his popularity with Ontario citizens. And it just might be driving him to a point of showing signs of paranoia. And

You go after this subject with some trepidation. I have always been proud of our multi-racial Canada. I abhor racists and their writings. I have also been paying close attention to this current leadership of the Ontario liberals. I admired Yasir Naqvi when he was attorney general of Ontario. I

There is no doubt about it: Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is making Justin Trudeau look better every day. You can take away his glasses, his starched shirts and his insipid ties but the boy is still turning out to be the prime minister’s best friend. What has clinched it is

In the summer we are having, you have to be damn stupid to deny there is climate change happening. In the warming of the oceans, there is danger for humans. In the increased wild fires destroying our forests, there is danger for humans. In the increased imbalance between drought and

We interrupt this stream of commentaries to discuss a matter of some concern. It has to do with the leader of the American dip sticks. His leadership is in jeopardy. He is being threatened with incarceration. That means he could be headed for prison, you bunch of yo-yos. That is

Watch out Doug Ford, the liberals are going to get you. You pulled out all stops to win the two provincial by-elections last week. Local radio ads for your government must have run heavy in Toronto and Ottawa. You did personal canvassing with the media in tow. It was a

The tale has many layers as the Toronto Star continues to unpeel the doings of the last federal conservative leadership farce. The why of Patrick Brown’s ejection from the race is coming clearer in the mists of intrigue. The role of the weasel Poilievre’s campaign becomes even more understandable. The

It is not what we thought. You might have supposed that the best person available, in this recent cabinet shuffle by Justin Trudeau, would get the right job. That might be in an ideal world but Canada has to deal with regional realities and sex and skin colour when considering

It seems redundant to tell you what Ontario premier Doug Ford’s word is worth: nothing. The Ontario Greenbelt is now the happy hunting grounds of his close friends, the developers who befriended him when he was spending some disappointing times at Toronto city hall with his late brother Rob. And

Olivia Chow had a Hobson’s choice. And both choices were wrong. The temporary mayor of Toronto soon found that she was out of her depth. She was never expected to get along with the federal or provincial governments and the foolish voters of Toronto, who voted for Chow, got the

Recently the wicked witch of the west told us that her Land of Oz was beset with arsonists who were razing millions of hectares of her beautiful province. She told us that she is going to hire investigators to find these evil doers. If she was older, she might have

It seems to be fate that the right-wing crazies in Canada search me out to send propaganda. The most recent e-mail from the so-called Montreal Economic Institute is a case in point. I might as well think of it as the Montreal office of the Fraser Institute. They only seem

Not being on the inside with the conservatives, I do not make accusations about things that I cannot prove. Knowing Patrick Brown, as I do, and having followed Pierre Poilievre over the years, it was no surprise when the Toronto Star accused Poilievre’s campaign of sabotaging Brown’s candidacy for the

It all started with the conservative Ontario attorney general. He and some of his fellow conservative lawyers in Ontario wanted to be able to use the ‘King’s Counsel’ designation.  It could help fool the public into thinking they were the more important lawyers in the province. They would be allowed

This summer the federal conservatives are road testing their new leader, MP Pierre Poilievre. They have been trying to analyze why so many Canadians are doubtful that they want him as prime minister. You would think that the numbskulls might have checked that out before letting him become conservative leader.

The Last Spike was a momentous event in Canadian history, a hundred and thirty-eight years ago. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway across Canada also marked the beginning of the end of a dream. In a country that pioneered inter-city rail, passenger traffic on our railway’s has given way

This could be Ontario premier Doug Ford’s last best summer on the Muskoka Lakes of Ontario. As he speeds around the lakes on his personal water scooter, the storm clouds are gathering. Doug has made it a better time for the liberals to sign up those disquieted voters who do

It is hard to believe that the replacement mayor of Toronto came to her first day at city hall by bicycle. You have to wonder about the voters in Toronto who promoted this mayor. The city is going to have to pay her almost $200,000 per year and she rides

You need rules in politics just as you do in boxing. And if there are none, we need to write some. I note this because the chemistry of the Ontario liberal leadership has gone off track. A gentleman, for example, does not comment negatively on a lady’s age. It is

It feels like we are all having our chain pulled here. I do hope that the average person on the street knows that there is a lot of crap on the Internet. As a writer, I spend more time researching than pounding the keys of my computer. And I can