The Old Paradigm
In Ontario, the conventional wisdom dictates that elections are won in the middle. That wisdom goes all the way back to the 1940’s, wen the Progressive Conservatives won 12 consecutive…
May 2018
Much To Scream About
Edvard Munch had it right: Toronto Star letter-writers tell us why: Tues., May 8, 2018Earth’s carbon dioxide levels reach highest point in 800,000 years, May 5 The front page of…
How Oslo Builds for a Sustainable Transit Future
Oslo: The Journey to Car-free from STREETFILMS on Vimeo. Oslo’s transition from car-focussed to people focussed transportation is well underway and is causing ripples around the world. Other cities are…
Lesson for today: Silk purses, sows’ ears.
Listen up children; Our lesson for today is that you still cannot make silk purses out of sows’ ears. Excellent examples of this aphorism are the conservative leaders in both…
John Brown’s letter got the attention it deserved
It went almost unnoticed, but on the agenda for the April 30 Collingwood Council agenda was a letter from the former interim CAO, John Brown, with eight questions (and some…
First Wells ministry, 05 May 1989 #nlpoli
May 5, 1989 was a Friday. It only took the couple of weeks between the election on April 20 that year and May 5 for the government to change hands…
Priorities
There is a small group of people — BC Liberals and friends — who viewed BC Hydro as a giant faucet for disbursement of cash. It is a costly reality…
Case Study: A Look At Steven Myatt’s Supporters
It appears that the article posted on Sunday showing the federal Conservative leader chatting with Steven Myatt (member of the white nationalist and increasingly antisemitic Northern Guard) while at the…
The United Conservative campaign strategy after Red Deer: Tom Olsen and the Wreckage offer hints
I think I’ve figured out the United Conservative Party election strategy for 2019. In light of the embarrassingly revealing policy resolutions passed at the UCP’s founding convention in Red Deer…
My take on the first #onpoli debate in tweets
You’re welcome. Not spotted on @CityNews #ONpoli debate: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 7, 2018 This is a @CityNews newscast with the #ONpoli leaders briefly showing up where the commercials…
Foolish format, folks
This standing in the middle of a stage with a perfectly good chair unused and a few feet away: really weird. #ONPoli pic.twitter.com/V7NI9tjioL — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 7, 2018
The Freedom to Shop
The legacy of the Reagan Revolution lies in the impact it has had on us and the role of markets in our lives. These nearly 40-years later it emerges in…
How Andrew Scheer Is Trying To Kill The Marijuana Bill
I watched Andrew Scheer's appearance last night on Tout Le Monde En Parle, Quebec's biggest talk show.And although I thought his French was (slightly) better than I had imagined it…
Eating up the Hill: Mixed Grill at Paramount Fine Foods
For those who keep Halal, the opening of a franchise of the popular Toronto-based chain Paramount Fine Foods at the Rideau Centre is a welcome sight. It’s a needed addition…
My Irony Meter just exploded
Apologies.
We Spoke to Consultants Forced to Alter Their Work to Benefit Industry on How to Fix Canada’s Broken Environmental Laws
In 2015, a pipeline was designed to cut through a sensitive wetland in B.C. The professional biologist reviewing the project told his company that there could be significant damage to…
Pollara’s Don Guy: Horwath’s NDP “has a lot of room to grow,” Wynne’s Liberals “aren’t even close to bottom yet”
That’s a quote from Dalton McGuinty’s campaign genius Don Guy. Abacus just found something similar – PCs down 5, NDP up 5, Libs going nowhere. Here’s Don – who, full…
How to Kill Off Neoliberalism
It’s become the endless struggle of progressive thinking, how to kill off neoliberalism. As John Ralston Saul discussed in “The Collapse of Globalism,” neoliberalism is just another ideology, another belief/faith…
Foggy Morning in La Jolla
La Jolla, California Beach Master
Surely, An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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