What is the world coming to? Here we have a die-hard conservative such as Jaime Watt in Toronto commiserating with the new democrats over the
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Babel-on-the-Bay: Complacency is Justin Trudeau’s enemy.
With a federal election ten months away, we can ignore all polls. They tell us little. It reminds me of the first party campaign in
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Biting the hand with the handouts.
We have warned Justin Trudeau repeatedly that those so-called independent senators are going to bite him on the bum. Blame him for all those Christmas
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Doppelgangers don’t do it.
There is a tendency among political leaders to have someone very much like themselves to serve as their chief of staff. It gives them confidence
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Competing with Donald Trump?
It is unlikely that Canadians had any idea just how much American president Donald Trump would cost them. Our great-great grand children will be paying
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Chuckles’ confusion of conservatives.
Federal conservative leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer knows that a bunch of whales is a ‘pod,’ and a group of geese a ‘gaggle.’ We are guessing
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Get your social media on.
Despite the sage advice from aging sages, social media will continue to be a useful addition to political campaigning. It is not going to go
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Bernier’s bonus: “No more political correctness.”
As MP Maxime Bernier continues to build his new party of the far right, he is finding easy hunting in Alberta. The MP from Beauce
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: “Wasn’t That a Party?”
The Rovers got it wrong when they wrote a song about the party. It was certainly not the whiskey or the gin that is doing
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Clement’s calamity?
It is so easy when you never liked someone to get a little lift from their downfall. It is always best to leave subjects such
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Why should I apologize to Justin Trudeau?
It was disconcerting the other day to have some readers complain about my insulting prime minister Trudeau. I casually ended a commentary by saying that
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: It started with Kennedy and Nixon.
As a Canadian, I had no dog chasing a rabbit in the race but it has impacted my attitude about politics for the rest of
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Singh sings a sorrowful song.
New democrat leader Jagmeet Singh is not getting too much respect these days. And when he is not getting much respect from his own party;
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Exxonneration?
Help is on the way. It was wonderful to read that ExxonMobil is being sued by the New York Attorney General’s office in the United
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Let’s have ‘Whack-a-Mole’ voting.
Blame Chantal Hébert. The other day she described the voting reform question as a whack-a-mole game. It just keeps popping up and needs to get
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A government built on falsehoods.
Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star described the Ontario conservatives as ageist the other day. He believes that Doug Ford’s Tories are the party
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Kudos to Vancouver’s Kennedy Stewart.
It took guts. That was no walk in the park for a new democrat to give up his seat in parliament and challenge for the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Brown’s boy continues to disappoint.
It was always amusing to see how aspiring politician Alex Nuttall fawned on Patrick Brown as heir apparent to Patrick’s seat in parliament. It did
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A relentless push for change.
As best as I can follow the Google Analytics information about readership, there is a consistent and steady stream of world wide web users visiting
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Thumper: 1932 to 2018
The Hon. Donald S. Macdonald has died. We were never friends. He might have served in Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet and we were both Torontonians but
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