August 2018
What Is It With Cyprus?
When you find a point of convergence where shady characters gather to do shady things it’s usually worthwhile to take a closer look. Testimony in the opening days of the…
Doug Ford and the Nightmare In A Beer Garden
It's starting to resemble a nightmare in a beer garden, with Doug Ford already looking like one of the worst Premiers Ontario has ever known.He has ended the fight against…
The TweetMeister’s Game
They’re as predictable as the sunrise. Donald Trump and Twitter are joined at the hip. His aides have tried to get him to give it up but Trump won’t have…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne writes that there’s no reason to turn Donald Trump’s giveaway to the rich into an excuse for similarly destructive policies…
Democracy Under Ford (#2)
I struggled with finding a suitable title for this article which it seems may well be the start of a series of observations regarding the high-handedness of the new Ontario…
Good morning
Gonna miss this. But something just as good happening soon.
“All politics is local.”
The adage about all politics being local is usually credited to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Tip O’Neill many years ago. All he was saying was that if you do…
Punishment does not fit the crime
When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was following a long-established Canadian legal tradition. It dictates: Punishment need not fit…
No. The Answer is No. This Is Not Something for Debate.
Okay, here’s the issue: now that the United States has become Europe’s unreliable partner, should Germany acquire nuclear weapons? I’m thinking that’s a real big “no”! Political scientist Christian Hacke,…
FUBAR – All Around the World
The photo is the sky above the Parthenon last week from wildfires sweeping Greece. I spent an hour this morning reading a succession of crazy, extreme weather reports from Australia…
When Tundra Turns Boreal
NASA researchers have found that Alaska’s North Slope tundra ecosystem is transforming into something that more closely resembles the boreal forests of the south. During Arctic summer, warmer temperatures thaw…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Laxer writes that Doug Ford’s attack on people who stood to be helped by a basic income demonstrates the cruelty of austerian…
Saturday Photo: Little Suns….
Yellow flowers are about my favourites I think, and Rudbeckia are my favourites among them. This is when they start blooming in earnest, the sign that summer is at its…
A Dangerous Combination
As part of its march to a brave new world for Ontario, the Ford government cancelled the Basic Income Pilot Project. Catherine Mah, of Dalhousie University, writes: The Ontario Progressive…
This tweet was popular
80,000+ folks saw, favorited and/or retweeted it. I wonder why? Best letter to the editor of 2018, right here. @globeandmail pic.twitter.com/7QMIELof5E — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 3, 2018
Toronto’s urgent need for unity.
It is a daunting prospect. No matter who is elected to what position in Toronto in the October municipal election, the Ford conservatives will be in their face for the…
WCAI Hoping For Charlottesville North
The date of the planned Worldwide Coalition Against Islam rally is certainly not a coincidence as it coincides with the one year anniversary of the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally.…