A cop on every corner and in every backyard
Councillor Kathy Jeffrey wants to get tough on crime. Serious crimes like throwing birdseed on your deck, not cutting the grass on the boulevard in front of your house, and…
Councillor Kathy Jeffrey wants to get tough on crime. Serious crimes like throwing birdseed on your deck, not cutting the grass on the boulevard in front of your house, and…
If the events of the past few days in Europe make anything clear, it’s that sucking up to Donald Trump is not likely to get you very far, except possibly…
Was Donald Trump acting as Nigel Farage’s beard when he gave a controversial interview to the Brit tabloid, The Sun, the evening before his meeting with Theresa May? To Sun…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Eli Wolfe discusses new research confirming how unions have saved thousands of workers’ lives – and how workers stand to pay the price…
Have we reached the point where truth becomes a belief-based construct liberated from the bounds of knowledge, fact and evidence? Have we entered the era of Truth Decay? Is this…
Fifty plus dead in Quebec. As many, perhaps more in Ontario (but who’s counting?). And, around the world, no one knows for sure, not yet. It’s a scorcher. Record high…
While I realize it is not healthy to obsess over things over which I have no control, I find myself consistently astounded and dispirited by the dystopian reality we now…
Yesterday, Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen and Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod sparred with each other over refugees. It’s getting pretty ugly. Martin Patriquin looks…
On returning to Rome after winning wars, Roman generals were customarily awarded a triumph. This was a parade through the streets showing off the slaves and other booty of war.…
This is the eve of the Canadian Combat Coalition rally in Ottawa. Personally I’m not sure exactly how well attended it will actually be. No may be some III militia…
OER stands for ‘Open Educational Resources’ and as readers know I have been a long-time proponent of free and open learning resources. So why would I call them a fabrication…
The Supermen Lovers feat. Mani Hoffman – Starlight
The number of candidates in the United Conservative Party nomination contest in the sprawling northwest district of Peace River has dropped from five to two. Lisa Wardley, deputy reeve of…
Morneau and Trudeau may be fine with consigning young Canadians to a future of “job churn” and a precarious, paycheque to paycheque, existence but that’s because they’re not willing to…
Imagine an army of outraged workers thrown out of work, their jobs taken over not by foreign labour but by automation – robots. Unemployed from a surprisingly broad spectrum of…
Now that Ontario is in the thrall of Doug Ford and his Regressive Conservative Party, I am beginning to understand how sane and balanced Americans must feel having an obscene…
And other stuff.
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Finn offers a reminder that Canada’s social safety net is leading to the perpetuation of poverty despite ample resources to end it.…
Boris Johnson has let it be known that he admires Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has returned the compliment. William Davies writes in The New York Times: “I am increasingly…