Conservative leader Erin O’Toole does not seem happy in his job. In this last week of our federal election, he is lashing out at others rather than recognizing the weaknesses of his own campaign. What he does not understand is that there is no perfect policy program to please Canadians.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Election Follies and Funnies #25: Mulroney’s turn
Forget about a statistical tie. @VoiceOfFranky has an honest-to-god actual tie – to one decimal point! 31.8% each for the #LPC and the #CPC ! #elxn44 pic.twitter.com/aPP6hWumW0 — David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) September 15, 2021 The NDP promise to align with with a CPC minority government will not be progressive.@JustinTrudeau🗨"I
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Kenney, declaring public health emergency, to Alberta: ‘I apologize … I don’t apologize!’
The richest, most self-righteous province in Confederation has been forced to go cap in hand to other provinces to beg for beds in which to park our sick vaccine refuseniks and health care workers to travel here and help us keep our hospitals open. Thanks, Kenney! Alberta Health Minister Tyler
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Oh No, Not Again
The election in Canada is on Monday, and the Conservatives are annoyed that HarperCon Kenney is trying to stop his province’s healthcare system from burning down completely by then. A CPC candidate texted me during the announcement and said "Does the premier not understand the position this puts us in
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: Our Ugly World
The U.S. went to war in 1941 because it was determined to conquer the whole world. That’s why it went to war with Korea. It was to be the entree to an invasion of a China which the British had ruled and plundered until 1939. But it didn’t work. All
Continue readingIn-Sights: This abominable scam of a climate election
Concern is skin deep: all of the parties climate platform policies are grossly insufficient, the climate villains are still in firm control, and any informed outsider would see a nation in deep climate denial…
Continue readingThings Are Good: To Revive Main Streets Let’s Make them People Focussed Instead of Business Focussed
Since the proliferation of big box stores and malls small cities have been struggling to keep their downtowns engaging and profitable for businesses. What if we rethought our downtowns to be about people and making a community instead of profit centres? That’s the very question a small city in the
Continue readingmark a rayner: 42: win and wear the ultimate answer!
The ultimate answer in sterling silver form: 42 I thought this would be a cool thing for fans of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy… Continue Reading42: win and wear the ultimate answer! The post 42: win and wear the ultimate answer! appeared first on mark a rayner.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jill Filipovic discusses how the mounting toll in human lives and health from COVID should leave no room for controversy about modest responses such as vaccine mandates. Andre Picard writes that there’s no prospect of moving from a pandemic to an endemic state
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Christo Aivalis discusses Jagmeet Singh’s much-needed willingness to take on the power of the rich to fight for a country that works for everybody. And Shelly Hagan writes about the resulting possibility of greater social contributions being required of those who can
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: All The Lonely People: Where Do They All Come From?
Before the advent of our current troubles, the Toronto Star’s Bruce Arthur won widespread acclaim for his sports reporting. Since the arrival of the pandemic, however, his writing has achieved an entirely new level; his coverage of various aspects of the disease, especially the social consequences, has been superb. In
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Money Talks. Will Big Oil and Its Political Handmaidens Listen?
Ten trillion dollars is a tidy amount of money. We may soon see whether that kind of cash is enough to tame the fossil fuelers and their political enablers. Investors managing more than $10-trillion on Wednesday published an ambitious blueprint for energy companies seeking to tackle climate change, including
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Same Old, Same Old?
Don Ivison is calling the election for the Trudeau Liberals. He figures we’ll be back where we were before the writ was dropped. O’Toole dropped the ball on the climate issue. He, after all, pledged to drive through a second bitumen pipeline, the Northern Gateway. Trudeau is only inflicting
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: New Lies
The Republicans are trading in new lies. Dana Milbank writes: On Tuesday morning, one of the most senior and important Republican senators used one of the most prominent settings in official Washington to level one of the most serious allegations possible against the commander in chief. And his charge was
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: JWR couldn’t be part of it. You can’t vote for it.
“Aga Khan. India. Vice-Adm, Norman. SNC-Lavalin. Blackface. WE. Payette. General Vance. There are patterns reflected in all of these…This way of governing was not my way of governing and I did not want to be part of it — to be complicit.” #cdnpoli #lpc https://t.co/bBno0D3dw5 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Dialectic of Sex – Firestone
Shulasmith Firestone is one of the important thinkers of the Second Wave of feminism. In her book the Dialectic of Sex she tackles some of the big problems facing women, and more importantly, lays out a path to understand not only how history has played out, but the why. She
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : The Perfidy of Quebec.
This argument is not going away quietly into the night. Premier Legault of Quebec said the other day that the question of Quebec’s Bill 21 and 96 did not belong in a federal election debate. Justin Trudeau said the question to Bloc leader Blanchet about Bills 21 and 96 was
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Election Follies and Funnies #24: Chretien is back!
Chrétien talks about importance of vaccines. Says he’s been vaccinated with various shots for 86 years. On Erin O’Toole- “He is doing something I cannot do – he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth.” pic.twitter.com/9i2drNzG5J — Abigail Bimman (@AbigailBimman) September 15, 2021 Chrétien said it’s not the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney’s rotten record of COVID chaos has finally become an issue in the federal election
So it’s come to this: Jason Kenney has become an issue in the federal election. All that effort keeping his head down for all but a couple of days over the past five weeks while Alberta’s health care system appeared to fall apart, and here we are. Chief Medical Officer
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: Canada’s Future?
It’s late. And I’m tired. And I’m disgusted. I’m disgusted with a hell of a lot of Canadians. I’m disgusted with a hell of a lot of Canadians as they make a farce out of the horror they are bringing down on all of us. You must know what flames
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