Andrew Scheer and The Rebel Connection
I'm pretty sure that most Canadians know very little about Andrew Scheer, the new leader of the Cons, who likes to call himself "Harper with a smile."They just see a…
May 2017
The Infrastructure Bank Conundrum.
It has been surprising just how many writers are interpreting the Liberal Government’s Infrastructure Bank as a prop for public-private partnerships (P3). It has also not helped that the government…
Corporate media have reached consensus about Andrew Scheer: He’s Stephen Harper with a human face!
PHOTOS: Andrew Scheer, demonstrating his vaunted smile. (Photo: Rabble.ca.) This fills corporate media with hope. It shouldn’t. In Canada, with or without a smile, social conservatism is ballot-box poison. Below:…
Racism and Violence Within WCAI and Canadian Combat Coalition
It seems that Joey De Luca is having an especially bad day: Based on what De Luca's friend and ally Ryan "Alberta" Dean of the Canadian Combat Coalition states, these…
Bill 17: A Unicorn or a Chimera?
Last week the NDP government introduced the Fair and Family-Friendly Workplaces Act (Bill 17). It’s intended to update workplace legislation that became increasingly outdated under Progressive Conservative rule. Premier Notley…
Dammit, Do We Really Need Fareed Zakaria to Tell Us This?
Fareed Zakaria thinks Trump was played for a chump by the Saudis during his opening visit of the 2017 Boor Tour. Even Canadians have to realize how Harper and now…
America First = America Alone and America Cannot Stand Alone
Donald Trump and the Gullibillies who installed him in the Oval Office have a childish grasp of America’s place in the world. They don’t understand what made America great and…
What’s the Big Deal with Kushner?
So Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sought to open a “back channel” line of communications with Russian officials. So, so what? Trump’s homeland security secretary, retired general John Kelly, dismissed the…
Merkel Writes Off America, Britain as "Reliable Partners" for Europe
Angela Merkel, it seems, has had her fill of the America’s fatuous president and Britain’s cadaverous prime minister also. Having endured Trump and May first at the NATO summit and…
Sunny days!
Sweetened up memory from a roadside photo. Waterlogue filter and layering different results from different sources in Procreate. Photo from somewhere in Iowa? Filed under: art
Column: Introducing the Smirker™
TORONTO—Smirk. The economy. Justin Trudeau. Free speech. His deceased mother. ISIS. On every subject, no matter how sad or serious, Andrew Scheer would smirk. It was, well, weird. His rictus…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 19: Will there be ‘Scheer madness’?
At long last, the federal Conservatives have a new leader … and it’s NOT Maxime ‘Mad Max’ Bernier, who would have been the first deeply libertarian leader of a major…
Victorious thanks to social conservative lemmings, Andrew Scheer has zero appeal to Canada’s progressive majority
New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer While following the now-finished Conservative leadership race, I always felt supremely irritated when listening to Andrew Scheer speak. The same kind of irritation that hits…
Normalizing Treason
Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly seems to have tumbled down a very deep rabbit hole. Recommend this Post
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nick Saul reminds us of the need for strong and consistent public pressure to end poverty. And the Economist points out how…
On changing opposition
While there will be plenty more to discuss about how the Conservatives’ choice of Andrew Scheer as their new leader, I’ll offer a few preliminary thoughts now – starting with…
in which we answer the burning question: "what kind of dog is that?"
At the beach! Diego’s favourite place. What kind of dog is that? People ask this all the time. All our dogs have been rescues, but most had recognizable breed markers.…
From tomorrow’s column about The Smirker
To wit: “Barton: But do you, yourself, believe ? Scheer: I, it’s, look, I don’t – it’s absolutely – our party dealt with this issue in Vancouver and, you know,…
The parade of the Conservative losers.
A political movement died out near the Toronto airport yesterday. It was the once powerful Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The new Conservative Party of Canada, heir to the Reform…
The Day The Cons Became the Reform Party Again
When I saw Rona Ambrose at the Con convention giving her farewell speech, praising herself extravagantly and bragging about how "she could kick Trudeau in the balls," I knew it…