Remembering the Day The Harper Regime Went Down In Flames
I was so excited to see Donald Trump hit the canvas last night, that I forgot that it was also the one year anniversary of the day Stephen Harper also…
2016
The Night Hillary Clinton Demolished Donald Trump
For a sickening moment during last night's debate, I thought Donald Trump was going to give Hillary Clinton a hard time, score some badly needed points. And maybe even win…
The Reverse Midas Touch Rides Again #nlpoli
The crowd running this place these days has an unrivalled ability to look at a problem and find the worst possible response imaginable. On Wednesday, natural resource minister Siobhan Coady…
Fixing the Cleveland I*****s Racist Team Name
Congratulations, Toronto Blue Jays on another exciting season! Let’s hope that before the Atlanta B****s or Cleveland I*****s come back to Toronto they will have changed their name. And as…
Alberta right now: The state of the province, its parties, and its oil after 1 year without Stephen Harper
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addresses supporters for her “state of the province” speech in Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall yesterday. (Photo from the Premier of Alberta’s Flickr account.) Below:…
Trump Train Derailed: Canadian Supporters Respond
You would have to be living under a rock to not be aware of what has become known as the "Trump Tape" in which Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks…
Canada, a welcoming country? The unaddressed issue of labour trafficking
The unaddressed issue of labour trafficking tarnishes Canada’s image as a compassionate and welcoming country. Temporary foreign worker programmes allow employers to violate migrant workers’ rights. The post Canada, a…
Book Review: Beyond Banksters – Resisting the New Feudalism
Bankers Hall in Calgary (Bernard Spragg, NZ / Flickr CC Licence) Something strange was happening in the world and until a social event in November, 2011, I was having trouble…
Justin Trudeau should resign as PM if this is true
Today we read that PM Trudeau is musing that his government is so popular that they might back off their solemn promise before last year’s election to carry out electoral…
I can’t bear this
What an utter disgrace that a qualified, competent, decent woman is obliged to treat this scumbag as somehow equal. #debatenight #uspoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 20, 2016
Illegal aliens
Trump sure is obsessed by them. Wonder why.
No offence to ‘black dogs’ but I got real today
Bright and early this morning, before I could slip into dishonesty, I volunteered to my diabetes specialist that I was depressed. Actually it was more like joining in conversation with…
Division of powers: Vires and Paramountcy
CITATION: Canada Post Corporation v. Hamilton (City), 2016 ONCA 767: The following section first articulates the general principles of the division of powers analysis, specifically the doctrines of ultra vires…
WikiLeaks Says Ecuador Shut Down Julian Assange’s Internet Access
LONDON — New York Times By STEVEN ERLANGER and DAVID E. SANGER OCT. 18, 2016 Ecuador said Tuesday that it had cut off Julian Assange’s access to the internet in…
Remembering “The Romans” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa
just an illustration? I found it in the Yellow Pages, which I was checking out at the Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay Street. I had just arrived from Niagara College.…
Oct. 19: Neoliberalism in action.
The headline story is that a former mayor of Moncton who just gave a speech about the murder of three police officers in this city over two years ago. He…
Anti-Semites for Trump.
He’s earned the fulsome endorsement of the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, and its Imperial Wizard. He’s pretty much the candidate of choice for all manner of American extremists and…
Trump going full Willie Horton
…but too late. I mean, he’s losing in Arizona and Georgia, for Pete’s sake.
Post Capitalism
Here is a link to my review of an extremely interesting new book by Guardian economics and political columnist Paul Mason. “Paul Mason is a leading British economic journalist, currently…
Sometimes, you can’t win
The Opposition and the media (and me) hammer Trudeau’s government for the electoral reform stuff, and we demand he rethink it. So Trudeau rethinks it, and the Opposition and the…