Photo: Liberal candidate Brian Gold and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a campaign event in Spruce Grove on October 20, 2017. (Source: Twitter) Overshadowed by this past Monday’s municipal elections,…
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Have you ever noticed that the people who are the most vociferous proponents of radical social change are often the least competent in providing for the everyday needs of the…
The political two-step over Quebec’s law that would deny public services to those wearing face coverings is triggering the expected greasy responses from the NDP, the Tories, and the prime…
This is pretty speculative, but it makes sense to me and I’d like to get the idea own on (digital) paper in case I don’t get the chance to come…
The irving press of New Brunswick is great reading for the brain dead. The lead story for today is that a man who killed a girl thirty years ago is…
Way back in the nineteen somethings, Canada was going through the sort of identity crisis we all go through when we’re about fifteen. Québec was all stomping around the place,…
Purgatory is how a staff person described to me the current situation of our local electrical utility, Collus-PowerStream (CPS). It’s the result of The Block’s and the administration’s incessant interference,…
The US government and its allies never pass up an opportunity to vilify Iran. We make it out to be a horrible theocracy ruled by despotic Mullahs intent on nothing…
I know, I know, it’s Texas. But still. In the hurricane battered town of Dickinson, 30 miles southeast of Houston, disaster relief comes with some pretty weird strings. Those applying…
Gord Downie was the pride of our nation: Chantal Kreviazuk https://t.co/BnNLhznllF — chantal (@chantalkreviaz) October 20, 2017 He's our Rock Pounding Father of Canadian music, and he's gone. https://t.co/UHsCnPR2lR —…
It’s always notable when a Trump appointee strays from the script. This time it’s America’s UN ambassador, Nikki Haley. While the Mango Mussolini does his best to dismiss Russia’s meddling…
A couple of days ago The Guardian reported on a German study that flying insect populations had declined by 75 per cent over the past 25 years. Another report for…
Other than The Lancet, that is. A study published in the prestigious British medical journal finds that 9 million premature deaths are caused every year by man-made pollution. With our…
I have never worn a cup. I don’t know anyone who has. “Hell, yes!” Weinberg said. “We don’t have anybody to kick an extra point.”Six weeks later, on homecoming of…
There are a few fire and brimstone street preachers downtown. Unusual, and quite harassing to women and men who might choose to dress lightly, baring flesh for warm weather. I…
Were Bill Morneau the Conservative Minister of Finance, you can rest assured that ‘progressives’ would be howling for his political blood. However, because he is part of Team Trudeau, some…
Assorted content to end your week. – Edward Harrison comments on the business-backed push to rebrand corporate control and crony capitalism as freedom. And Ryan Cooper points out that the…
Justin Trudeau said that, back in July, when he was asked about his government paying $10 million to Omar Khadr. It’s a quote: “The Charter protects all Canadians, everyone of…
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bill Morneau. Yesterday he said he will put his considerable wealth in a blind trust. Tim Harper writes: Morneau finally did the…
