Waiting for your train.
Ontario’s MetroLinx people came to Barrie the other day to talk about planning for the future of the GO Train commuter line to Toronto. The good news is that it…
2016
Pierre Poilievre and the Death of the Unfair Elections Act
In all the nightmare years of Harperland, it was one of the foulest bills the Con regime ever rammed through parliament.Pierre Poilievre's Orwellian named Fair Elections Act, which he claimed…
Fractured Fairy Tales: Jerry Earle edition #nlpoli
Via VOCM, the reaction of NAPE boss Jerry Earle to a study that showed the provincial government is overloaded with provincial public servants compared to the situation in other provinces:…
Robo-gaffe: What do you do when caller-ID says it’s a PC on the line and you get the NDP?
PHOTOS: The offending caller ID message (photo found on Twitter). Below: Edmonton-Castle Downs NDP MLA Nicole Goehring, former Edmonton-Castle Downs Progressive Conservative MLA Thomas Lukaszuk and NDP Caucus Outreach Director…
Notley owes Alberta’s coal communities an in-person visit
Mr. Jean: Thank you. The NDP has found time to fly to Paris, to Morocco, but they haven’t found time to visit communities like Hanna and Parkland county. They haven’t…
NDP Pledge to End B.C.’s Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt if Elected
Grizzly bear trophy hunting will be banned, for both resident and foreign hunters, if the NDP form the next provincial government, leader John Horgan promised Thursday. The NDP is walking…
NDP Pledge to End B.C.’s Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt if Elected
Grizzly bear trophy hunting will be banned, for both resident and foreign hunters, if the NDP form the next provincial government, leader John Horgan promised Thursday. The NDP is walking…
On advance opportunities
And now, time to give credit to the Saskatchewan Party where it’s due. Some people are justifiably anticipating that thanks to Donald Trump, self-dealing will be the word of the…
New column day
Here, on how the Wall government has Saskatchewan on the road to the same post-truth politics that laid the groundwork for the spread of fictitious “news” and Donald Trump’s election.…
First Nations Chiefs Say Site C Highway Route Will Desecrate Graves, BC Hydro Disagrees
The route chosen by BC Hydro for a Site C dam highway relocation will “desecrate” a First Nations burial ground and destroy a culturally significant site used by the Dunne-za…
First Nations Chiefs Say Site C Highway Route Will Desecrate Graves, BC Hydro Disagrees
The route chosen by BC Hydro for a Site C dam highway relocation will “desecrate” a First Nations burial ground and destroy a culturally significant site used by the Dunne-za…
Don’t Throw Away Our Shot
For the first time, we find ourselves not as a reflection of another power. Our politics is not a derivation of Westminster or Washington anymore. Our politics is specific to…
Clinton By Two
Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump in the popular vote by more than two million and they’re still counting. If Greg Palast is right, there are millions more that were…
Remember "Snakes and Ladders"?
Well, Americans should brace themselves, for their future holds a lot more snakes and damn few ladders. I have long been convinced that the American public and, to a lesser…
Use Your Words
This, courtesy of our friends at Raw Story: Recommend this Post
Bathroom Bill Senator Don Plett back at it again
Don Plett is the genius behind the previous Canadian government’s attempt to legislate on trans rights–he proposed the amendment to Bill C-279, which specifically excluded public accommodations and housing protections.…
It’ll be a White Christmas somewhere, at least
I wondered how much snow I’d gotten up at the cabin. So I checked the security camera. Now I know.
When the President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal.
Takes you back, doesn’t it? Back to the days of Richard Milhous “Tricky Dicky” Nixon. It came up in the Frost-Nixon interviews. Flash forward to 2016. Now we have the…
The A, B, C’s of Dictatorship
Harvard prof and Foreign Policy columnist, Steven Walt, has a thoughtful essay, “10 Ways to Tell if Your President is a Dictator.“ My fears about Trump’s foreign policy have always…
The “other” Bill C-38 – Fish habitat redux and lessons for today
Thursday, November 24, 2016 Many Canadians who care about nature, democracy and Indigenous rights will recognize the name Bill C-38 – the omnibus budget bill from 2012 that dramatically weakened…