“Huge pothole on #StAlbert Trail right now! This is a preview of Canada’s future if Justin Trudeau is re-elected as prime minister, as he continues to implement his terrible anti-automobile agenda.” Were I to take to Twitter and say such a thing, dear readers, presumably many of you would conclude
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Montreal Simon: Doug Ford’s Vacation and the Hidden Hand of Stephen Harper
When I heard that Doug Ford had decided to give himself and his government a five-month vacation until the federal election was over, I wasn't really surprised.I'd heard he'd found running a province about a hundred thousand times more exhausting than running a small label factory, and needed to take the whole
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Man Overboard!
H/t Michael de Adder Sometimes, it is best to let nature take its course. Recommend this Post
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Mixing ignorance and ideology in Ontario.
It’s a bad combination. Ignorance in itself is bad enough but in a mix with an ideology as strident as conservatism, it is simply bad government. It is a colonic that the people of Ontario do not need. It is hardly surprising that today you listen to the quiet admissions
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford’s Sad and Pathetic Anniversary
He is without a doubt the worst premier Ontario has ever known, a dumb Con beast who has disgraced himself over and over again.But as he prepares to celebrate his first anniversary in power he is giving himself and his government a five-month paid vacation. And although many believe he is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The D-Day Anniversary and Doug Ford’s Ghastly Con Clowns
Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images Today is a very special day in the history of Canada. The 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 14,000 of our soldiers joined the assault on Hitler's Atlantic wall.Storming the beaches of Normandy to strike a massive blow for freedom.Or in the immortal words of Toby Barrett, a Con
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: No Intervention for Doug Ford.
Those people who are promoting an intervention for premier Doug Ford’s beer bonanza are missing a few clues. First of all, an intervention is normally conducted by people who give a damn about the person who has strayed. Secondly, we figure that an intervention over beer and wine is for
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Still here! (Sorta)
Its been awhile since I posted something here.. so I felt the need to add a blog entry to indicate I’m still alive. (If you read my twitter account at the right sidebar, you’ll see I am indeed around still). Lots of things have happened in a couple of months.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Opportunity calling Andrew Scheer.
For a guy who got his job by surprise, conservative leader Andrew Scheer MP is a happy camper. He can hardly believe it when public opinion polls show him defeating liberal leader Justin Trudeau. All he could do two years ago when he got the job of leading the party
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Is Alberta’s ‘Yes to TMX’ campaign a sly tax-funded attack on the Trudeau Liberals?
Things are certainly different on the pipeline front now that Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party are in power in Alberta! Yesterday, the airwaves were full of reports Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage had announced an advertising campaign urging Parliamentarians to say “Yes to TMX.” (We’ll get back to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC examines the obscene corporate subsidies doled out by Canadian governments – with Alberta ranking as the worst offender even as it also takes in less revenue than other provinces. And Jeff Gray reports on the growing gap between Doug Ford’s budget promises
Continue readingAlberta Politics: B.C. Appeal Court’s Trans Mountain ruling may not be quite the slam-dunk Alberta thinks it is
The unanimous ruling Friday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the B.C. Government does not have the constitutional authority to control what goes inside the federally regulated Trans Mountain Pipeline is being hailed as a great victory in Alberta. Church bells didn’t actually ring on Friday, but the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Fighting the facts of the future.
In a discussion of what is currently happening in politics, the realization emerged that provincial politicians such as Alberta’s Kenney, Saskatchewan’s Moe and Ontario’s Ford are denying our progeny a future. It was not a question of a planned or malevolent denial of a future but simple ignorance. These men
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Exile on Mainstreet
So, that Mainstreet poll. On the one hand, I like its founder and the people who work there. My firm has used them in the past. When the Lavscam scandal broke, however, Mainstreet’s boss took it upon himself to – for lack of a better word – troll each and
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Scheer would do better if he shut up.
Sure, it is almost five months until the federal election but everyone is out stumping anyway. You would swear that the election was in June and everyone is getting desperate. But there is no excuse possible for the blather we are getting from the conservatives. Who told conservative leader Andrew
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney fiddles (with climate policy) while Alberta burns
It is an irony, though not a particularly satisfying one to observe, that while Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government moves swiftly to repeal Alberta’s carbon tax, the province is aflame, with more than 5,000 Albertans required to leave homes and communities in imminent danger of destruction. It is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Doug Ford Cost Andrew Scheer’s Cons the Next Election?
When Doug Ford became the premier of Ontario, Andrew Scheer was so excited he treated him like his new best friend forever.It was going to be the Great Alliance, with the two Cons vowing to work together to defeat Justin Trudeau and his satanic carbon tax.And Scheer seemed to believe
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Star’s editorial board rightly criticizes Doug Ford for his propensity to announce massive cuts first, then begrudgingly acknowledge their unconscionable consequences later. Linda White, Elizabeth Dhuey, Michal Perlman and Petr Varmuza note that Ford’s cuts to child care will be particularly
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Choosing Chuckles for Canadians?
Of all the ridiculous strategies for the coming federal election! Why should the liberals attack the conservatives when their real opposition in the October election is themselves? To waste time attacking conservative leader and Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer is assuming that he concerns Canadians. He never has been the problem.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On defining images
I’ve previously linked to Doug Cuthand’s column on the climate obstructionists who are endangering our future. But I’d think it’s worth putting his most powerful conclusion in a form which better connects the perpetrators to the problem. And so…
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