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…
July 2018
The UCP brain trust can explain that MAGA cap: Devin Dreeshen’s here to help Canadians with Donald Trump!
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…
Theresa May, Donald Trump, and Nigel Farage
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…
Saturday Morning Links
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…
Truth Decay
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…
It’s a Fair Question, One Our Government Should Be Answering.
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…
Ignorance And Cold Hearts
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…
Trump-Lite’s Triumph.
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.…
Where In The World Is Brandon Vaughan?
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…
The Fabrication that is OER
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…
Musical interlude
The Supermen Lovers feat. Mani Hoffman – Starlight
World Bank President Weighs In on Future of Work
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…
Some Day Even You May Rise Up Against Your Government.
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…
Feeling Like An American
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…
Adler-Kinsella: how Killer Kowalski made me love journalism
And other stuff.
Friday Morning Links
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.…
The Simple Truth
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…