Of Course You’re a Big Deal.
Having trouble getting over yourself? Think you’re the center of the universe, that everything revolves around you? Perhaps we all do, a little bit, in a way. The problem is…
June 2018
June 30: Evil Us?
The story that you will never see in the irving press. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-tax-gap-foreign-holdings-1.4726983 240 billion dollars. Now do you understand why governments have to go over budget? Now do you understand…
The Best Analysis yet of Trump’s America
The article by Frank Buckley, Brian Lee Crowley (Read more…) Sean Speer in today’s Globe & Mail is by far the best analysis of the driving forces behind the new…
from the archives: for millions of american women, roe is already history
With the resignation of US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, it is very likely that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will be overturned. I’m getting frustrated…
Saturday Photo: Morning Contemplation
Hot weather. Time to get out in the morning and then cool it inside… We were in the parks at 8:30 a.m. Often go walking at that hour, but the…
Stephen Harper, Traitor
I am really angry with Stephen Harper’s treason against Canada. How do you stop someone who’s hell-bent on ruining the fortunes of Canada?
what i’m reading: running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librarian
I read this book many months ago. I’m still catching up from my involuntary blogging hiatus. Last year I read and wrote about The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature…
Notice What You Haven’t Heard from Donald Trump Lately?
After proclaiming a great and joyous victory for America following his Singapore summit with Korean despot, Kim Jong Un, the Mango Mussolini can no longer utter the words “North Korea.”…
Collingwood’s Reichstag fire
The Reichstag was the home of the German parliament until 1933, when it burned down just one month after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor. The Nazis immediately blamed the fire…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Alex Ballingall reports on the efforts of the United Nations’ special rapporteur on housing Leilani Farha to push for an enforceable right to…
If Only He Had Kept His Word
It seems the Trudeau Liberals are in for a bumpy ride to the polls in next year’s general elections. When Trudeau marked his first Canada Day as prime minister, he…
The Con Clown Stephen Harper and the Battle For Canada
It's the Canada day weekend, and it's going to be a hot one in more ways than.It's going to feel like 45 degrees in the place where I live.And July…
Let’s settle this silly supposition.
According to Toronto Star columnist Bob Hepburn, political guru David Herle says the results for the liberals would have been worse if Wynne had not announced that they would lose.…
Ontari-ari-ari-oh
Good morning. @fordnation is Premier. The birds are still chirping, the sky is still blue, and the sun came up this morning. See? We’re going to be fine. Happy Canada…
Do we need a Canadian version of the Logan Act to put a stop to dangerous freelance diplomacy?
Most observers of Canada-U.S. politics and the two countries’ unexpectedly fraught trade relationship would agree former prime minister Stephen Harper’s no-longer-secret visit to the White House on Tuesday is unlikely…
Two Mexican journalists banned from the US for five years
I sent this letter to Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06). Similar letters were sent to Washington Senators Maria Cantwell (up for re-election) and Patty Murray. Rep. Derek Kilmer 1520 Longworth House…
Musical interlude
Phantogram – As Far As I Can See
The Kingsway Cases at the LPAT: An (Unrepresented) Party’s Observations, Part 1: In the Beginning
I’ve decided that I’m going to blog about my perceptions and experiences with an appeal that I’ve filed to the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) over a land use decision…