Healthy Balance of Life-Work
By: Jasintha Kunasegaram For many years, we Canadians have played many different roles in our lives. As years go by, our roles only add up, and never reduce. Hence, it’s…
June 2014
Father’s Day 2014 – What Have We Learned From Dads?
This is my father, James “Babe” Thomson. I miss him so much – he passed away after a series of strokes in 1975. From my Dad, I learned to feel…
Ontario Election: A Good Case for Proportional Representation
Premier Wynne led her Liberal Party to a majority government this week, trouncing the anti-statist (drown the government in a bathtub) frothings of the Conservative Party, and shouldering aside the…
My Playwright Sister: a play about a play about a transgender sibling
My Playwright Sister, written and performed by James Diamond and Johanna Nutter, is a sequel of sorts to Nutter’s earlier work, My Pregnant Brother. My Pregnant Brother sets Nutter’s struggle…
STATEMENT BY SANDRA YEUNG RACCO
I would first like to begin by thanking the voters of Thornhill for their commitment to democracy in Ontario. You voted for a provincial representative that you trusted and that…
My credit card got hacked. There is an upside
The issuing bank, which sent me an email alert today, presumably as weird charges started showing up, very kindly went over my current charges and I got a chance to…
Why Are Pipeline Spills Good For the Economy?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Energy giant Kinder Morgan was recently called insensitive for pointing out that “Pipeline spills can have both positive and negative effects on…
Why Are Pipeline Spills Good For the Economy?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Energy giant Kinder Morgan was recently called insensitive for pointing out that “Pipeline spills can have both positive and negative effects on…
Peter Mansbridge Speaks Out
Readers of this blog will know that I am a frequent critic of both the CBC and Peter Mansbridge. Both ‘institutions,’ in my view, often fail to live up to…
June 14: Please, Mr. Mayor….
On page A1, Mayor George Leblanc says “…police killings will not define Moncton.” Mr. Mayor, talk a walk to Victoria Part.There is a monument there with the many, many names…
Posts Regarding CVRD Shenanigans Delayed Temporarily
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger There has been considerable buzz throughout the community regarding recent gravelly matters and the disappointing conduct of the CVRD, Acting CAO Raimondo and the CVRD insiders…
On sucker’s deals
Shorter Brad Wall: But what you less-sophisticated, not-so-business-savvy people don’t understand is this: when you pawn the furniture, you get CASH MONEY UP FRONT. How can that be anything but…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne discusses the need to address inequality through our political system. But that will require significant pressure from exactly the citizens who…
In Sunday’s Sun: As The Au Pairs sang, it’s obvious
The first duty of intelligent people, said George Orwell, is to restate the obvious. In politics, it isn’t done nearly enough. So, let us state the obvious: Kathleen Wynne won…
Partisan hypocrisy shows why voting reform is doomed
When Harper won a fake majority on 39.6% of the vote, many Liberals claimed it was an outrage and affront to democracy. Now that Wynne won one on 38.7%, they…
Liberals didn’t fool progressive or centrist voters
This election in Ontario, the Liberal party’s campaign strategy was to out-left the NDP and win the majority they missed by one seat in 2011. They did this with a…
Let’s Hope They Draw The Right Lessons
Ontario — and Ontarians — are lucky. So writes Gerry Caplan: The Liberals’ luck is also Ontario’s luck. The Conservatives, and a good number of observers, believed Tim Hudak would…
What was the Hair doing with that Aussie?
We wrote recently that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had no friends. That was a lie. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott dropped by early last week and he and his friend…
The Right Wing Instructs Us On Our Errors In Thinking
Benighted soul that I am, I did not realize the myriad errors of thinking I have fallen prey to. Happily, University of Toronto geography professor Pierre Desrochers has set me…
Food, man! There’s no food!
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