New column day
Here, on the Libs’ pleasantly surprising hints toward enforcing the Canada Health Act – and the Saskatchewan Party’s response that it would rather fight for profit-motivated medicine than work on…
December 2016
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Owen Jones argues that UK Labour needs to make far more effort to connect with working-class citizens in order to hold off…
Public Transit Makes Cities Safer
Obviously public transit is great for getting people around cities and is a very scalable traffic solution. One spinoff of a good public transit system is that the streets get…
Fidel Castro, Stephen Harper, and the Con Scumbags
I wasn't planning to write another post about the death of Fidel Castro, and the ugly way the Cons and the Con media went after Justin Trudeau for daring to…
We May Be Cooked
Surveying what has been happening in Europe and the United States, Jonathan Manthorpe asks, “Is Liberalism dying out?” He writes: Only in Canada (and Portugal) does the seemingly archaic and…
The bias of Toronto Star’s Paul Wells.
What is a writer such as Paul Well’s doing at the Toronto Star? Does he provide insight you wonder? Is his writing progressive? Does he know the Ottawa scene as…
If This Is So Goddamned Important
If this “pipeline to tidewater” is so goddamned important, why do the beneficiaries have so little skin in the game? Why isn’t Alberta defusing the dilbit bomb by refining the…
Setting the agenda #nlpoli
In a set of media interviews this week, Premier Dwight Ball thought he would be talking about what’s he learned in his first year in office, what motivates him, and…
I Got Myself a Date
I’m almost giddy to announce that I’ve finally got myself a date. It wouldn’t be gentlemanly to tell you who she is, not yet at least. Where would you go…