2017
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 52: RIP
As the last blog of 2017 – and the last in the Stuff Happens series of blogs – let’s look at the names we lost in 2017. January Mary Tyler…
Something is Seriously Wrong
How fitting. The UCP will close 2017 with yet another bozo eruption. Bozo eruptions were mildly entertaining in the past, but they’re occurring with increasing regularity and have taken on…
On Shame, Honour, and Vulnerability
I was forwarded this 47 minute podcast with Brené Brown on 1A, and some of the ideas she has are remarkably similar to Timothy Snyder’s views in On Tyranny (e.g.…
Happy New Year, y’all
Heading out to a fancy dinner and then a party with the most amazing woman. She’s beautiful and brilliant. Have a great evening, all – and an even better 2018!
An Unlikely Colonel
I was more astonished than I could express to learn that the Governor had commissioned me as a Kentucky Colonel, for contributions to global affairs and international equestrianism.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Parkin discusses how the growing pile of Liberal disappointments is creating opportunities for Canada’s opposition parties. – Julie Ireton reports on…
what i’m reading: what i haven’t read and am not reading
Many of my co-workers keep colourful lists like this,or use Goodreads or Shelfari to track their reading.I prefer plain old text. Like most avid readers, my to-read list contains far…
new year’s un-resolutions
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, but I do enjoy using the revolution of our Earth around the Sun as an excuse to take stock in where I am and…
10 Questions With B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver
B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver went from being B.C.’s solitary Green MLA in 2013 to holding the balance of power in the province’s current minority government. While the transition…
2017: looking on the bright side
The thing that most characterized and energized 2017 for me was a deep and visceral loathing of Trump. It made me feel 30 years younger. It was a revivifying and…
Voter Suppression And Gerrymandering
Robert Reich does his usual fine job of warning about threats to American society and democracy posed by the entrenched interests who care nothing for principle and everything about the…
Happy New Year
It’s been quite a year. And I make no predictions about the one to come. I do know that it will — at least where we are — start out…
The greatest single sentence in the history of the New York Times
Until the “Donald Trump today resigned the presidency” sentence, that is.
Candice Bergen and the Trudeau Hating Cons
I've been trying to write something about what the year 2017 felt like to me, but it isn't easy.So many things happened, I can't decide whether it was a good…
A farewell to 2017
Twenty seventeen has a special significance for me, beyond merely another year in the ever-lengthening calendar of my life. I find it difficult, sometimes, to believe I am as old…
A New Year rich in political opportunity.
This political junkie is looking forward to 2018. Starting with the Ontario election in June, Quebec scheduled for October 1 and then the American mid-term elections in November, there will…
Happy New Year! It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten political predictions for 2018
PHOTOS: Will U.S. spear hunters like this guy still be able to come to Alberta after 2018? Your blogger predicts they’ll have to find ursine victims elsewhere. (Photo: Youtube screengrab,…
Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Bethune interviews Joseph Stiglitz about his longstanding recognition that an international economic system biased toward capital could lay the groundwork for Trump-style…
2018: the coming provincial and municipal elections
My former Sun colleague Antonella Artuso got in touch with me to seek my opinion on the coming Ontario and Toronto elections. Her story is here. And my full response…