September 2016
Canada detains children
This is extraordinary and horrifying. I am astonished by this. If you object to Canada placing children, inter alia, in solitary confinement, contact your Member of Parliament here. And contact…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Tim Harford discusses how insurance and other industries are built on exploiting people who are risk-averse due to the inability to absorb substantial costs…
Stuff Still Happens, week 38: Bulletin – Liberals like to $pend money
The Trudeau government, less than a year old, has certainly adopted well to governing. Like most governments, the Trudeau Liberals have found that there is a surprising amount of money…
A Reading Recommendation
Heading off to Word on the Street this morning, so I only have enough time to strongly recommend that you read Marie's post at A Puff of Absurdity on protecting…
Ahmad Rahami
As a rule, I don’t ever name terrorists, mass murderers and their ilk. They don’t deserve the recognition they seek. But this New York Times front-page profile of the Chelsea…
Wrinkles: a review
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. It’s the phrase that highlights the entrance to Hell in Dante’s Inferno. It could just as easily by carved above the entrances to…
Jason’s Kenney and the Last Show in Ottawa
The ghastly show is finally over. After a shabby twenty year run on Parliament Hill Jason Kenney has packed up his harp, and finally left the building.But not before one…
Dullness Reigns.
It was during one of the overly warm days in this past August that are often referred to as the dog days of summer. It had to be a dog…
what i’m reading: your heart is a muscle the size of a fist, by sunil yapa
If only Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist could be required reading. Everyone who has ever scoffed cynically at protesters. Everyone who has ever seen a…
Putting Money Where Her Mouth Is
Recently, Health Minister Jane Philpott informed the province of Quebec that she intended to enforce the Canada Health Act. Tom Walkom writes:The Canada Health Act is the federal statute governing…
Bernard the Roughneck in his own words: Neal Bernard Hancock responds to his critics
PHOTOS: “Bernard the Roughneck,” Neal Bernard Hancock, addresses the media in Ottawa in this screenshot of the CBC’s tape of his interview. Below: Mr. Hancock at the same event with…
What’s Jon Latvis Up To These Days?
The last time we posted an article asking a similar question back in 2012, it resulted in a fair amount of msm attention, though to be fair that was mainly…
Deep thought
Memo to those commentators perpetually seeking any available excuse to compare Brad Wall to historical leaders: now would be an ideal time to point out his government's turn toward the…
A Brilliant, Simple Idea. The "Dutch Reach"
Check this out. You and every cyclist will be glad you did.
Eating up the Hill: Friday is fish day
If it’s Friday, it’s fish day in Parliamentary cafeterias. Often that means fish and chips — I usually sub out the fries for a salad — but this Friday, it…
Eating up the Hill: Friday is fish day
If it's Friday, it's fish day in Parliamentary cafeterias. Often that means fish and chips -- I usually sub out the fries for a salad -- but this Friday, it…
September 24: No. No word.
No, there's still no word about how we're being robbed of more than forty billion dollars a year by some of our better families. In particular, there's not a word…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada's longstanding - if far from inevitable - identity as a resource economy is standing in the way of…