How The Con Media Made Themselves Look Like Idiots. Again.
As we all know, the good old boys from the parliamentary press gang have been in a frigging frenzy recently. Covering Justin Trudeau's visit to India, from Ottawa and/or somewhere…
February 2018
La Bohème at the Galaxy
Starving bohemian artists living in drafty Paris attics in the mid-19th century, struggling to produce their art, falling in and out of love, sharing and suffering, living and dying, all…
A Dying Cause
As a reasonably rational individual, I no longer look upon the ongoing cascade of gun massacres in the United States with either horror or sadness; the only real emotion I…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nick Falvo highlights some of the most important proposals in the CCPA’s alternative federal budget (parentheticals omitted): 3. Introduce a national pharmacare…
Repeating The Same Mistakes
Political parties, Robin Sears writes, tend to make the same mistakes. That is true of Canada’s three major parties — particularly true when a new generation of leaders takes over.…
in which i finally give up my blackberry
Well, I finally did it. I gave up my BlackBerry, and got a Samsung Galaxy phone. Yeah, I know, welcome to the 21st Century. Goodbye, old frenemy I previously only…
In search of a Red Tory in Ontario.
There are two former Conservative Members of Parliament whom I could vouch for as Red Tories. They are both very fine and principled gentlemen. They are Patrick Boyer and David…
Trudeau in India, Part I: PM’s family goes full Bollywood; Conservatives freak out; some alterations suggested
PHOTOS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and their children visit the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, during Mr. Trudeau’s official visit to that country. Below: Mr.…
Yet ANOTHER Pegida Canada Rally In London Fails
One day Pegida Canada might get the message that neither they nor their message are welcome in the city of London, ON and they will leave. While this was not…
Town Hall Discussing Systemic Racism Disrupted By Bigot and Racists
This past Thursday an Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Town Hall took place at the Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto. The panelists included Lisa Kinsella who spoke about her efforts…
On historical perspective
I’ll give Roland Priddle this much: he’s absolutely right in his impression that the best way to argue for waving through expanded tar sands pipelines without an unbiased review is…
It Wasn’t a Lack of Firepower That Caused the Parkland School Massacre
In the wake of the shooting deaths of 17 people, students and teachers, at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, officials, including the Mango Mussolini, were quick…
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers Meets Donald J. Trump
The Guardian’s take on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is that it vaguely resembled The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.Donald Trump has created a Born Again GOP, made…
Will gun control become the issue that puts the nails in the coffin of the Republican Party?
-Another school shooting. More needless deaths from a semi-automatic weapon. -An inane proposal from the President that teachers should be armed and that would stop all these deaths. – At…
Crowdsourcing, Anyone?
Like millions of people around the world, I have been deeply impressed and moved by the passionate conviction with which young people, spearheaded by the survivors of the horrific shootings…
Feb, 24: Arm the Teachers. Yah.
Arm the teachers. Right! Nothing like a mass shootout in the halls and classrooms to save the children. No. Trump solves the problem without looking at what caused it. It…
Leadership 2018 Links
The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign in advance of next weekend’s convention. – Murray Mandryk’s questions for the candidates led to substantial agreement on most of the areas…
Fair minded Ontario PC members should vote for Patrick Brown…
In legal circles you’ll sometimes come across the expression ‘fruit from the poison tree’. In the Patrick Brown case the poison came from a story that came out January 24th…
Speaking of Julian Assange
If there’s one thing that Donald Trump fears, it’s evidence emerging of very real collusion between Russia and his election campaign. That evidence, or at least one important element of…
The Con Media and the Canada I Love
After a long and hard week this was just the image I really needed to boost my spirits. An image of the Canada I love.Sebastien Toutant a.k.a. Seb Toots, from…