Author: Peter Lowry

I think not. After two years of hiding in the bushes, I bet Ontario liberal leader Steven Del Duca has a grand plan. There must be a scheme in place that will devastate the Ford conservatives. Hopefully, it is ready to rumble. After all, what will our June 2 election

You want freedom, you’ve got freedom. It is just hardly necessary to be free and dumb at the same time. Canadians will have to stop feeling so superior to those Donald Trump supporters in the U.S. Obviously Canadians can be just as ignorant. It is hard to accept this so-called

It is probably wrong to use big words when writing about MP Pierre Poilievre. The type of people who are buying into Poilievre’s campaign for the leadership of the conservative party might not understand big words. Like former president Donald Trump in the United States, Poilievre is a man who

There is no more powerful weapon than information. It is used by the good people as well as the bad. It can be used by a Donald Trump to spread crass rumours and misinformation. It can also be used by president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to defend Ukraine from the overpowering might

It is 13 years now that Andrea Horwath has been leading Ontario’s new democrats. It has been a sad four years of lacklustre leadership that Horwath has provided the official opposition. She only became opposition leader in the Ontario legislature because former premier Kathleen Wynne of the liberals gave up

You should never ignore a political party’s pamphlets. They tell you so much about how they think—or, in some cases, do not think. In this phony war before the real provincial campaign commences in Ontario, the sneakiness of the pamphlets dropped at your door can tell you much. All of

If anything could have annoyed us more, it was those damn demonstrators in Ottawa and at border crossings, waving the Canadian flag. These people were not respecting the flag nor the country it represents. It made the wife and I angry to see it. At the same time, we tried

It looks like Jean Charest has overestimated his conservative party credentials in Quebec. He hardly has the time to sign up CPC members one at a time. He needs to have large blocks of memberships handed to him. Ideally, he needs the 50,000 provincial conservatives of Éric Duhaime—which does not

It seems Alberta’s premier has decided to play out the tragedy of his time in Alberta politics. He was so eager and ready seven years ago when he bought a pick-up, a ten-gallon hat and fat-boy jeans and headed home for Alberta. It was Ottawa’s loss and the Alberta legislature’s

You asked “Who will protect your money?” It won’t be the Bitcoin miners. It won’t be MP Pierre Poilievre. In fact, Poilievre is using the Bitcoin confusion to try to add to his votes in the conservative leadership race. He might add some miss-led support to his campaign but in

Former premier Kathleen Wynne stood in the Ontario legislature last week for her farewell speech to that house. It was not an inspiring moment but her speech was gracious. And if she is not worried about her legacy, she should be. Wynne was premier of Canada’s most populous province for

Whatever happened to ‘Building Back Better?’ Conservative Pierre Poilievre could have written that budget speech from finance minister Cynthia Freeland. Just who the hell she was out to impress, nobody seems to know. This was not a budget in which a liberal could take any pride. Canada can have a

That young guy who runs Canada’s Weston Empire appears to be getting ahead of the game. He can enthusiastically raise prices in Loblaws, Zehrs, No Frills, Provigo, Superstore or Shoppers Drug Mart and the other chains will follow. The only question is why is he raising them more than necessary?

Ontario has bought into the federal government’s “Ten Dollars a day” daycare deal. That is what everyone calls it. And most people realize it is not going to happen overnight. What puzzles me though is this payment going to be in 2022- ten dollars or in 2027-ten dollars? The way

If there is one thing Ontario voters can agree on is that Ontario premier Doug Ford is not the brightest star in the sky over Queen’s Park. When he thinks he has an idea that might appeal to voters, he will ride the idea into the ground. Take his recent

It might seem disorganized to some politicos but the meanness of MP Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for the conservative leadership is coming into focus. He is befriending the conservative party’s extremists. Poilievre is appealing to the hardened right wing of conservatism. Yet, he is not really a doctrinaire conservative. He is

It was a picture of Canada’s first nations’ representatives with the Bishop of Rome that got me thinking. Where are the anachronisms in this picture? And who are the people of faith? It was the central figure in the white smock that got me thinking. He is the head of

Are we so desperate to help Ukraine that we have to ask Donald Trump for help? It seems obvious that the Russian generals have been lying to Vladimir Putin. The only person Putin still trusts is probably his friend Trump. He is the friend of despots around the world. If

There is a huge hole in the emissions target released by the Trudeau government the other day. Canada cannot continue to ship tar sands bitumen off shore and not take responsibility for added emissions of greenhouse gasses to convert it to ersatz crude oil and then the ultimate emissions of

Here we thought that former prime minister Stephen Harper’s dream of the F-35 procurement had been put to bed. Nobody in Canada needs or wants the American F-35 aircraft. It is a bad idea promoted by the Americans to soothe their egos. It is a ground support aircraft that Canada