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…
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…
President Troll
Son Four and I were listening to CBC radio on the way back from the Raps game (we beat the Grizzlies, but kind of didn’t deserve to), and some brilliant…
before the flood: good information but ultimately a weak message
Tonight we watched “Before the Flood“, Leonardo DiCaprio’s film about climate change, which I had heard such good things about. It’s well done, and is chock full of appropriately terrifying…
Kellie Leitch Fundraises Off Me
This appeared on CPC leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s Facebook page today. She’s got the twitter address wrong, but yeah she’s talking about me, as Nick Kouvalis helpfully clarified: @FraserFraserdw they…
Kellie Leitch Fundraises Off Me
This appeared on CPC leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s Facebook page today. She’s got the twitter address wrong, but yeah she’s talking about me, as Nick Kouvalis helpfully clarified: @FraserFraserdw they…
Not everyone is happy with the newest tenant in Stanley Park
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – by John Streit Posted Nov 29, 2016 7:11 am PST Last Updated Nov 29, 2016 at 10:15 am PST An artist’s rendered image of Stanley Park…
Not everyone is happy with the newest tenant in Stanley Park
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – by John Streit Posted Nov 29, 2016 7:11 am PST Last Updated Nov 29, 2016 at 10:15 am PST An artist’s rendered image of Stanley Park…
Nine Years
Yep, we’ve been plugging along for nearly a decade, though as recent article we posted noted we had planned on this being the last post we would make on the…
Just When We Thought Harper Was Gone
I guess we somehow knew all along – Preserving the legacy of Stephen Harper and Joe Oliver – bringing bitumen to tidewater. Makes me feel a lot more British Columbian…