The hardened heart of Mr. Harper.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper had it right when he recently commented on the problems he has with friends. He does not have any. With Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in rehab,…
June 2014
It’s Time to Reset the Net
One year ago today Edward Snowden revealed to the world evidence that many long suspected – that the American government is actively performing mass surveillance. Innocent people have been targeted…
John Tory: do as I say, not as I do
Having just completed “a whiplash-inducing flip-flop on his transit “Number One Priority,” John Tory has something new to be a hypocrite about: ethics. Discussing Rob Ford’s regular violation of conflict…
His Way
Much has been written about Stephen Harper’s increasing isolation. Michael Harris writes that isolation was in plain sight when Harper chose Canada’s new privacy commissioner: The man named as Canada’s…
A Premier Hudak would put Ontario’s education system back to the Dark Ages…
…aka, The Harris Years. Anyone with school age kids are really worried about the impact that a OPC government would have on our kids. As someone who has been involved…
Why have our trees have lost half their value?
BC Stats released an updated report ‘British Columbia Origin Log Exports’ and I extracted data to produce these graphs. The statistics show the volume of raw logs leaving the province…
On The Madness of ‘King’ Stephen
Whenever I need evidence that politically aware and engaged citizens are not an endangered species, I turn to the letters section of The Toronto Star. Here are two from yesterday…
The Unlanded Gentry Have Captured North America’s Political Economy
During the first few decades of the industrial revolution in Britain, it was the landed gentry that ruled. They did not have the good fortune of being born into a…
Unmaking Global Capitalism
When Marx famously declared that while the philosophers have interpreted the world, the point is to change it, he was asserting that it was not enough to dream of another…
The Con Hookers and the War on the Supreme Court
I suppose it's only fitting that it should be Peter MacKay, the one who pimped the Progressive Conservative party to Stephen Harper and his Reform cowboys, who should make the…
There’s good news and there’s bad news #nlpoli
Corporate Research Associates and the provincial Conservatives played up the change in government satisfaction in the release of CRA’s quarterly advertising poll on Wednesday. But CRA’s satisfaction numbers don’t mean…
My Tienanmen Square experience
The current media coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre has brought back some memories for me. I walked around Tienanmen Square one month after this event.…
Gun-loving sicko kills multiple people in Canada
Canada under Harper. Don’t you just love it?
Ric McIver needs to explain his longstanding connections to the ‘Progressive Group for Independent Business’ and its beliefs
Found on the Internet, apropos of nothing in particular, Ric McIver and friend. Below: Craig B. Chandler of the Progressive Group for Independent Business. Up to now, Progressive Conservative leadership…
Justin Bourque, 24 Year-old Angry White Man
Justin Bourque murdered 3 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers Wednesday night in Moncton. Based on his Facebook page, the alleged RCMP killer clearly loved guns. When I read his Facebook…
On Ethics, That’s a Wrap: Ad Buy Confirms NDP Has Lost Moral Centre
As I was walking along the street today, I turned to take a look at the latest headlines in the newspaper box. To my astonishment, the front page of the…
When everybody expects a leader to be very bad, but ends up just being sort of bad, I guess that means he wins the debate…
I’ve had 24 hours now to digest what I saw during yesterday’s Ontario leaders’ debate, as well as the knee jerk analysis last night and today’s commentary and reactions. I…
Prostitution
Criminal lawyers, like almost everyone else nowadays, have an internet listserve. On reading the new proposed prostitution legislation (which criminalizes the buying of sex) one wag commented, "lots more work…