This is on you, American voters
Sixty two million, nine hundred and seventy nine thousand, eight hundred and seventy nine. That’s how many people voted for Donald Trump. And that’s how many people should be looking…
February 2017
Highly Scientific Poll™: what about that Unpresident presser?
It was wild! It was wooly! Vote before I go on CITY-TV to talk about it! .@realDonaldTrump is: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 16, 2017
The Mad Hatter Holds A News Conference
This has to be seen to be believed. Mendacity AND an alternative universe: two for the price of one. Recommend this Post
It Feels Good to Know People are Listening
I was excited to receive two compliments on my blog this week. The first is from Drive DeVilbiss Health Care – they honoured me by listing The Caregivers’ Living Room…
New column day
Here, on Brad Wall’s choice to cover up the truth behind the Saskatchewan Party’s Global Transportation Hub scandal – and the most plausible (if still inadequate) explanations for that decision.…
Ours to own, not theirs to profit
It seems the public sector is under attack from all directions these days. Despite historically low public financing costs, despite proven efficiency and innovation, the public sector gets a bad…
The German Bank And the Deadbeat President
It’s one of Germany’s biggest and now its most controversial financial institutions, Deutsche Bank. Now Deutsche Bank is under investigation by US federal authorities for, among other things, its shady…
luxor: west bank sites, day two, and we miss abdul
These posts are one day behind. I write in the morning, but cannot get an internet connection until evening. Our taxi arrangement should be great, but it has not gone…
luxor: west bank sites, day two, and we miss abdul
These posts are one day behind. I write in the morning, but cannot get an internet connection until evening. Our taxi arrangement should be great, but it has not gone…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 16, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, and…
Empathy and The Dog Allusion
Empathy, writes Martin Rowson, is one of the things that make us human, make us civilized, allows us to interact without tearing one another’s throats out. Without it, we’d have…
Bad News From The North
No matter how you parse it, this is extraordinarily bad news. That glacier melt is taking place at an alarming rate is bad enough, but the nature of that melt,…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 16, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, and…
Tell Us More About Hacking, Christy Clark! Please.
Fresh off a week of lying and backpedaling about how the BC NDP hacked her party’s security-lite website, BC’s premier now needs to tango her way out of an actual…
Is Donald Trump affecting your mental health?
Stateside, some are certainly saying that he is: Up here in the Great White North, I’ve heard from plenty of folks – including regular readers, writing to me privately –…
A Toxic Brew
Lawrence Martin writes that the Conservatives appear ready to take a leap off the cliff. The two leading contenders for the leadership of the party are Maxime Bernier and Kevin…
More fallout from voting reform.
This subject would have been ignored if another commentary on it had not run in the Washington Post. The writer accused the Canadian prime minister of looking “both incompetent and…
Ezra Levant and the Con Bigot Show
It's hard to believe, it couldn't be more ugly, or less Canadian.But just two weeks after a white supremacist killed six Muslims in a Quebec City mosque, and wounded eight…
Stuart McLean in a serious moment
I once met Stuart McLean, the legendary Canadian broadcaster who died yesterday. It was both my brush with fame and utter modesty. The occasion was the aftermath of a very…
Alternative Facts: Prairie Dipper edition #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Erin Weir is the New Democrat member of parliament for Regina – Lewvan. In the House of Commons on Monday, Weir used alternative facts – i.e. stuff that is utterly…