A Meeting Of Morons
Tonda McCharles has a must read article in today’s Toronto Star. It details what went on behind the scenes at this weekend’s G7 summit. That picture leaked by Angela Merkel’s…
June 2018
retroactive travel blog: vancouver island april 16-24
In April, we spent a week on Vancouver Island — an exploratory trip with an eye towards a possible (probable? definite?) move there. I had already been contacted by the…
Donald Trump’s play date with Kim Jong Un.
The American president plans to add to his infamy tomorrow as he meets with Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea. It seems incongruous for Donald Trump to be traveling…
Rumpole and the Ticking Clock #nlpoli #cdnpoli
There are rules about how long a judge may take to issue a decision. Now, now. The lawyers among you are already spitting their morning coffee across the breakfast table…
Column: Kathleen put Kathleen first
Kathleen Wynne’s former cabinet colleague doesn’t mince words. “Kathleen is all about Kathleen,” the former colleague says. “That’s always her focus.” One of her former fundraisers and advisors is similarly…
Canada’s plan: do the opposite of what is promised
Delegates from 195 countries met in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a plan to address climate change and “take on a…
Who loves ya, baby? Canada’s conservatives urgently need to reassess their dalliance with Donald Trump
A photograph of last weekend’s G7 conclave in Quebec showing several national leaders apparently trying to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to act like a grownup was doing the rounds…
Plant thieves still at work at Vancouver’s parks
by Monika Gul News 1130.com Posted Jun 10, 2018 5:50 pm PDT VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It appears some people are doing more than ‘smelling the roses’ while strolling through…
Ontario Elects Doug Ford; Alberta Unleashes the Valkyries
Valkyrie: from Norse mythology, meaning “chooser of the slain”; female figures who choose who will die in battle and who will live. Ms Soapbox has a message for all the…
People asked me why I liked him. People asked me why I defended him.
Because he’s not the monster he’s made out to be, I told them. He will surprise you, I said. Watch. We will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister…
With friends like these …
Donald Trump – the sexist, racist, xenophobic, dictatorial, megalomaniac leader of the free world – has finally accomplished something that no other American president has ever done. Trump has single-handedly…
This Should Give Justin a Needed Boost
Trump advisors went on the Sunday morning US talk shows like scalded cats to denounce Justin Trudeau’s handling of the G6+1 leaders summit. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – J.W. Mason reviews Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists with a reminder that the decades-long push to subjugate popular democracy to corporate interests is nothing…
we movie to canada: wmtc annual movie awards, 2017-18 edition
The list of movies I want to see gets longer and longer, as I watch more series and fewer films. Even so, the 2017-18 list is impressive. First, the annual…
Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, and the Treason of Andrew Scheer
Nobody can deny that Justin Trudeau worked really hard to try to get Donald Trump to agree to a joint statement at the G7 Summit.No Prime Minister has ever worked…
Vox Populi
While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1, or the strange elevation to…
Short-Termism
Susan Delacourt writes that Ontario’s election highlights how short voters’ attention spans have become. After all, ghosts haunted each of the party leaders: The ironic part of the past Ontario…
It was not all about Trump.
The American president flew out of Canada’s Bagotville air base yesterday a disappointed egotist. He stopped by to impress the other world leaders and got the cold shoulder. Not even…