Posted this a year before the Ontario vote. It’s still true.
Let’s recap. The Ontario PCs raised $16 million last year, and the Ontario Liberals – the, you know, government – raised $6 million. Ten million less. The government. The most…
Let’s recap. The Ontario PCs raised $16 million last year, and the Ontario Liberals – the, you know, government – raised $6 million. Ten million less. The government. The most…
While the Mound has been giving comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge Analytica assault on democracy, I am taking this opportunity to supplement his work with the following. I hope it…
There was an opinion piece in the paper the other day by a favourite commentator. She was writing about the Liberal government not trusting anyone older than the prime minister.…
(March 20, 2018-Edmonton) Today, a coalition of researchers, economists, and members of civil society released an alternative budget to boost Alberta’s economic growth while reducing income inequality. “Alberta is on…
Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, wrote an interesting article in The Guardian last Saturday on the rise of a new idea of masculinity…
PHOTOS: Private schoolboys. In Alberta, our taxpayers subsidize ’em! (Photo: Bundesarchiv.de.) Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, and Progress Alberta Executive Director Duncan Kinney. Now…
With Finance Minister Joe Ceci scheduled to table Alberta’s budget in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, March 22, there was plenty of activity today by advocates wanting to see big…
In my initial post on Isikoff and Corn’s new book, “Russian Roulette,” I described it as a recapitulation of facts we already knew but placed in a much clearer light…
BC Hydro is the utility that keeps the lights on in B.C. and generally it does a fine job of restoring wind-toppled power lines and firing up our smart phones…
The Horgan Government indicated it will conduct a review of private power purchases but lifting contract secrecy is the one thing that could be done immediately. It is inconceivable that…
Last week the New York State Board of Parole granted Herman Bell release. Since the Board’s decision, there has been significant backlash from the Police Benevolent Association, other unions, Mayor…
…so someone said to me at lunchtime. Sometimes, you just have to laugh. Anyway. These are the Ontario Throne Speech “priorities.” If anyone can see a big re-election victory somewhere…
Photo by Mark Klotz This week, Alberta premier Rachel Notley threatened to cut oil shipments to B.C. if the province interferes with Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. And today,…
Photo by the Kremlin The careful use of the words “likely” and “plausible” by world leaders reflects the fact that, to date, there is no hard evidence on who was…
Pity poor Andrew Scheer. The Con media has stopped attacking Justin Trudeau for a moment, so they can go after the NDP's Jagmeet Singh.Which is bad for the Cons, because…
Does Chris Wiley not know that people die for saying less?
Projects, a load of them, costing tens of billions of dollars each now to avoid tens of trillions of dollars of losses and suffering for future generations. See the problem?…
There are some 600,000 of them, Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, huddled across very steep and very bare slopes in an area of Bangledesh called the Kutupalong-Balukhali settlements. They’re huddled close…
Most British Columbians oppose the Notley/Trudeau/Big Tar Kinder Morgan pipeline. We oppose it because of the devastating environmental harm that can be caused by pipeline ruptures and, yes, the record…
ResoluteReader: Yuri Prasad – A Rebel’s Guide to Martin Luther Kin…: This year radicals will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of 1968, a year of global rebellion. One of the…