For love of money.
Never having met Mayo Schmidt of Hydro One, I really cannot pass judgement on the six million dollars he was reportedly being paid. Not that I think anyone is worth…
July 2018
The “creeping cancer” …
It’s time to put the fear of consequence back in governance. Since it is obvious that the current checks and balances mean little or nothing, to political organizations, bent on…
Elevation of Devin Dreeshen to role of UCP Boy Wonder must be a bitter pill for Derek Fildebrandt
What a bitter pill the elevation of Devin Dreeshen to the role of Boy Wonder of the United Conservative Party must be to Derek Fildebrandt! The Independent MLA for Strathmore-Brooks,…
Day Two of Canadian Combat Coalition Rally Even More Poorly Attended: Also More Information On Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau’s Participation
Canadian Combat Coalition president Dan Dubois said yesterday that he was disappointed by the turnout at his anti-immigrant and anti-government rally on Parliament Hill on Saturday. If he was disappointed…
Girls Just Want to Have Fun…at the Calgary Stampede
“When the working day is done. Oh girls, they wanna have fun.”—Cyndi Lauper After a rough few weeks Ms Soapbox and her family dug out their cowboy hats, found some…
Saunderson trolling for votes
After four years of deception, secrecy, more closed-door meetings than the previous four councils combined, and avoiding public scrutiny at all costs, Brian Saunderson and his Block minions have suddenly…
Saturday Photo: Moshe Safdie’s 80th Birthday
Here’s the building that started the remarkable career of Moshe Safdie: Habitat 67. Apparently he turns 80 this weekend, while Habitat turned 50 last year. How time flies when you’re…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #29
It’s TIHATL, Summer Reading Club edition! Summer Reading Club is in full swing in Canadian libraries. In more than 2,100 libraries around Canada, kids are earning prizes and recognition for…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Santens writes about the flaw in markets which fail to distinguish between goods and services which lack value, and those which…
Getting Closer To The Fire
On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 members of the Russian GRU for attempting to sabotage the American election. Donald Trump knew the indictments were…
We get letters: the universe achieves balance
Yesterday, some guy said I was a member of the alt-Right. Today, this guy says I’m a “brain-dead Left-wing idiot.” The delicate balance in the universe has been restored. Have…
Grope effect
My week on Twitter : 2.83K Mentions, 1.72M Mention Reach, 6.14K Likes, 2.32K Retweets. See yours with https://t.co/TQhKFs0QZY pic.twitter.com/0TY9fg52I3 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 15, 2018
The Trumps do Europe this summer.
Donald Trump and his lovely wife Melania are doing Europe this summer. Distaining the very pedestrian bus tours, the Trumps are using Air Force One and helicopters to speed their…
By-elections conveniently over, United Conservative Party pushes out MLA accused of ballot stuffing at nomination meeting
With many Albertans apparently in a mood to take Jason Kenney’s claim at face value his year-old United Conservative Party is renewed, reformed and ready to govern, you can’t be…
Affording the “unaffordable”
Some BC politicians are not bright. Either that, or they are thoroughly dishonest. Maybe both. Liberals saw natural gas revenues drop from $11.5 billion in the five years ended March…
Brief Recap of Canadian Combat Coaltion Rally in Ottawa: "No Show" Goudreau Shows
I was actually out for much of the day and didn’t have much of an opportunity to follow the events in Ottawa. I had surmised that it would likely be…
Keep the genie stuck in the bottle
If the feds disclose evidence at a future trial that indicates provincial neglect and dereliction in pursuing crimes associated with gambling, what happens to public trust and support for both…
Sixth MLA leaves the UCP. Prab Gill resigns from caucus following ballot-stuffing investigation.
The polls suggest the United Conservative Party is poised to form government in 2019, but how united the caucus actually is remains questionable. Calgary-Greenway UCP MLA Prab Gill issued a…
July 14: Making Canada a better place for billionaires
I was puzzled as I wrote the July 11 blog. What was Trump doing with his attacks on allies? But a day of thinking it over made me realize nothing…
What More Can Trump Do for Putin? How About Absolution?
Nothing Vlad Putin has done will deter Donald Trump from his one-on-one chin wag with his fellow despot in Finland on Monday. Nothing, not even Robert Mueller’s forensic evidence showing…