As of tomorrow, this site will be no more. I thank all of those who helped me with this over the years. The new site will be at https://scottdiatribes.wordpress.com. You’ll see I’ve kept all the old posts I’ve made.. but the site will look very.. minimalist at this point.. and
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Scott's DiaTribes: A Potential Blog Move
Well.. its renewal time for the server that hosts my blog due on April 7, and at this point, with lack of blog activity (except what you see on my Twitter feed that pops up on the sidebar), I’m not particularly inclined to pay the renewal fees for something I’m
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: What I’ll be watching for Election night (PPC – Rural ON/AB) #Elxn44
We’ve had a month of campaigning in the Federal Election 2021. I don’t need to recap everything that’s gone on, except to say it APPEARS (with large emphasis on that word) that the Conservatives seem to have stalled momentum with 3 days to go, and that the Liberals appear to
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The blog awakens for Federal Election 2021
Hello folks: Miss me? (Don’t answer that ) Seeing as we’re about to head into a Federal Election set for Sept 20, I thought it time to shake off the cobwebs off of this blog and revive it a tad. I won’t promise you posts every day, as I used
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Renewing the domain for another year
So my renewal for this domain came up. I thought long and hard for whether to bother renewing it… since its obvious to all that my blogposting on this has been much reduced since the advent of other social media platforms – notably for me Twitter, and because of the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: RIP Senator
It was always neat to have a sitting Senator show up at our Progressive Bloggers meetings/get-togethers — not just as a politician glad-handing us looking for photo-ops.. but as an actual Progressive blogger herself. For many years, Senator McCoy wrote on her own personal blog called “Hullabaloos”. It was pretty
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: 5 Days Until The Strangest Christmas Ever
With cases continuing to rise, and the spectre of an apparent Ontario province wide lockdown coming on Christmas Eve, widespread availability of these Covid-19 vaccines can’t get here soon enough.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Sanity has returned to the US (hopefully).
As of this writing, Donald Trump has not conceded the US Presidential race, but that doesn’t matter. Joe Biden is the President-elect and Trump’s court cases that have charged voter fraud have so far all failed. On Jan 20, Joe Biden will be sworn in. He will have many challenges
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Trump’s Covid-19 positive test – the ultimate October Surprise.. the ultimate Karma
News that US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and other high level Republican officials have tested positive for Covid-19 – and others awaiting test results after potential exposure to the above – has added another dimension of disarray to what was already one of (if not the most)
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: An Assessment of Erin O’Toole’s selection as Conservative Leader
In a leadership convention that will be known as much for it counting machines shredding ballot votes and the long delay in announcing results as it will for the picking of a new leader, the Conservative Party’s members finally picked someone to replace the inept Andrew Scheer. (Scheer didn’t go
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Blue Jays denied playing in Toronto. Right call.
These stats here should speak for themselves why it’s the right call. I also would think twice if I were the Jays about playing in Dunedin Florida; a state with a pro-Trump Republican Governor and Covid-19 stats showing the result of that blind loyalty. Oh.. and yes.. hi everyone. Sorry
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Evidence that a Trumpism strain is alive and well within the Conservative Party.
Witness this humdinger of an interview by Sarnia-Lampton MP and current Conservative Party leadership contender Marilyn Gladu. Apparently we should be following the lead of President Trump: Sarnia-Lambton’s MP wants Canada to implement COVID-19 cures she says have been proven in the United States… “In the United States they’ve been
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: COVID-19: Take care of your mental health too.
One of the twitter feeds I follow commented that since mass social/physical distancing and self isolation has taken place, every day is like the other – the news is the same, the newscasts are all the same. He has taken to calling every day “Blendsday”. This constant warning of COVID-19
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Covid-19 and the new normal.
Well… lots has happened since my last post. Normal political news and normal news for that matter is now almost completely gone due to the Covid19 pandemic gripping the world. Once this all passes (whenever that happens to be) it will be interesting to see what the new “normal” is.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Congrats to new #OLP Leader Steven Del Duca
We already knew going into the Ontario Liberal Party Convention that Steven Del Duca had won a majority of delegates going into the Leadership Convention, and only needed superdelegate votes to put him over the top. It was little surprise that he got that support and won decisively on the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Delegates Selection Weekend
This is the weekend where OLP members are voting for delegates to help choose the next Ontario Liberal Party leader. This is what the leadership campaigns were doing the membership drives for – to try to get more people as members who would then theoretically turn up this weekend to
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: “5 Questions” Interview(s) with Ontario Liberal Party Candidates: Steven Del Duca
Our next candidate for the Ontario Liberal Party Leadership to submit replies to the questions is Steven Del Duca (you’ll find his website link in one of the replies to one of the questions). 1) There are many candidates running to be the next Ontario Liberal Party leader. What would
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: “5 Questions” Interview(s) With Ontario Liberal Party Candidates: Mitzie Hunter
Mitzie Hunter is next up in answering some questions about her Ontario Liberal Party leadership run. You’ll find her relevant website and contact info below the very last answer of hers. 1) There are many candidates running to be the next Ontario Liberal Party leader. What would you say to
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: “5 Questions” Interview(s) With Ontario Liberal Party Candidates: Kate Graham
Kate Graham is the next of the leadership candidates for the Ontario Liberal Party to submit her answers to my “5 Questions”. You can find Kate’s website here. Her answers in their entirety are below. 1) There are many candidates running to be the next Ontario Liberal Party leader. What
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: “5 Questions” Interview(s) With Ontario Liberal Party Candidates: Alvin Tedjo
Alvin Tedjo is the 2nd of the Ontario Liberal Leadership candidates to turn in his answers to my “5 Questions” series. You can find his website here. His answers are again unedited by me and presented in their original format below. 1) There are many candidates running to be the
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