Trump and Kim Jong to talk.
It’s the age of Big Hair Diplomacy
March 2018
This Is What Death With Dignity Ought to Be Like.
This is the Oregon experience. It ought to be Canada’s also. That’s precisely what the Supreme Court of Canada concluded was our constitutional right under the Charter in its powerful,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Elizabeth Bruenig makes the case for the U.S. to make a much-needed turn toward democratic socialism: In fact, both Sullivan’s and Mounk’s…
Suddenly the moral imperative to re-elect Kathleen Wynne emerges with a vengeance
Which of these men has committed more crimes? It must be great to be a mediocre white rich straight male in the Conservative Party, where everyone else is considered unqualified…
Doug Ford Wins Ontario PC Leadership With Chants of MOGA
Trumpism has come to Ontario. The highly unpopular movement in the US fueled by social conservatives has reared its head in Ontario politics last night when controversial PC leadership candidate…
How to beat a Doug Ford led PC Party in Ontario.
The whole process was almost farcical at times, and it appears Christine Elliot still has it in her thought to perhaps contest the results in court, but for now, Doug…
Doug Ford and the Con Clown Horror Show
I know I predicted that the Ontario PC leadership race would be a Con clown show, and it was.Their convention was a total disaster. It dragged on for hours with…
Doug Ford in ten tweets
I hate Twitter threads, but I got started and kept going. Here it is. 1. Doug Ford is good news for Andrea Horwath. If Horwath gets out of the political…
A Mob That Is Mad As Hell
Martin Regg Cohn offers a succinct summary of the Ontario PC leadership race: Mere months before the election, the province’s official Opposition sacrificed its leader in a scandal over sexual…
Donald Trump Lite and the Ontario PCs.
After spending Saturday afternoon watching Rosemary Barton and CBC News struggling with the Ontario Conservative fiasco, I was not sure whether the party or the news media did the worst…
what i’m reading: short reviews of fiction by margaret atwood, madeleine thien, frances itani, elizabeth kostova
I’ve gathered some thoughts about several novels I read but neglected to write about. I enjoyed them all to varying degrees; all are worth reading if you enjoy the type.…
Electronic Voting Not an Option…. yet.
Following the panel discussion on voter engagement of young people at Ryerson University recently backbench Liberal MPP Arthur Potts proposes that the voting age should be lowered two years, to…
Questions
With which group will Justin Trudeau identify? This one? Or, this one? It was sponsored by subsidized fossil fuel and extractive industries and held on the edge of Vancouver’s inner…
Eating up the Hill: Gnocchi with scallops at Metropolitain Brasserie
Left the precinct for lunch with a friend Friday at the Metropolitain Brasserie, a swanky French bistro on the other wide of the Chateau Laurier. Popular with the political set,…
The new conservatives and values
From a few years back: …as I argue in my book Fight The Right, the political brain is an emotional organ, not a rational one. On voting day, passion generally…
Student Passion Versus NRA Polish
I’ll put my money on student passion. Recommend this Post
From February: ten reasons why Doug Ford can win
When I quit the Olivia Chow Toronto mayoral campaign in 2014 – because she’d not told the truth to the media, among other things – guess who was the first…
I got tired of waiting for PCPO leadership results
So I tweeted stuff. Pro tips, PC friends: If voters see that you can’t run your own house, they won’t let you run the province If you need media coverage,…