Time Magazine And The Many Covers of Donald Trump
Over the last two years Time Magazine has had many good covers of Donald Trump.Covers that reflect the different chapters of his depraved reign.With some real.Read more »
August 2018
Ronny Cameron Thrilled With Bernier Leaving Conservative Party
Maxime Bernier quitting the Conservative Party on the eve of the Conservative Party Policy Convention and promising to create and lead a new, presumably further right, party has sort of…
Has the US Government Become a Criminal Enterprise?
There’s a lot of talk today that the Republican-controlled Senate is willing to collaborate with Trump, allowing him to fire AG Sessions and appoint a replacement specifically for the purpose…
The Day Maxime Bernier Stuck A Fork In Andrew Scheer
Earlier today I wrote a post looking at how Mad Max Bernier was threatening to wreck the Con convention.By encouraging them to keep on playing their new old racist games.But…
Sunset Point parking
Sunset Point Park is easily Collingwood’s most popular park and for good reason: it’s a wonderful resource and a great place to spend an afternoon. Summer weekends it’s always full…
One Juror Took Manafort Off the Hook for Ten Felonies
One intransigent juror is all that stood between Paul Manafort and conviction on all 18 felony counts at trial. “There was one holdout,” the juror in the trial, Paula Duncan,…
Is Catherine McKenna as Addled as She Sounds?
Consider this excerpt from today’s National Observer. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna tried to square the circle of the federal approach to pipelines and climate change. On her way into the…
PostMedia Director Given Immunity Deal in Michael Cohen/Donald Trump Investigation
Who knew that American Media CEO and Trump bestie, David Pecker, also sits on the board of directors of Canada’s slowly dying PostMedia news conglomerate. The Pecker was implicated yesterday…
If You Read Between The Lines, Global Economic Leaders Are Telling Us Exactly What Is Coming
Sometimes, a strongly-worded denial is the most damning evidence of all that something is seriously wrong. And when things start to really get crazy, “the spin” is often the exact…
Venezuela’s Push Towards a “Resistance Economy”
Photo from Public Domain The Government of Venezuela called an international Presidential Economic Advisory Commission, 14-16 June, 2018 – to debate the current foreign injected economic disturbances and seeking solutions…
The Madness of King Don
Donald Trump delivered himself of some pretty bizarre views this morning on his favourite cable show, Fox and Friends. Apparently still smarting from the realization that his former fixer, Michael…
Boy, nobody saw this coming
@MaximeBernier to set up his own right wing party #cdnpoli #CPC18 https://t.co/Cly7wkQfkc — Robert Fife (@RobertFife) August 23, 2018 Said no one. What does it say about Consevatives? It says…
The Monstrous Cons and the New Old Racist Game
It's the kind of thing that can ruin your evening. You come home, you turn on the TV, and there's Michelle Rempel, the new take no prisoners/ don't f**k with…
New column day
Here, on how the Libs’ national poverty reduction strategy manages to aim low yet still set us up for failure on its own terms. For further reading…– CTV interviews Trish…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Wren-Lewis discusses how media negligence allowed austerian economics to be treated as credible long after any pretense of academic merit has…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday August 23, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Everyone who applies in Ontario for a Certificate of…
Ford’s Mafia
Doug Ford has already made Toronto City Council an offer it can’t refuse. His bill to reduce Toronto City Council from 47 to 25 seats was passed without any middle…
It’s All Connected
Humans are a lamentably short-sighted species. Sure, we understand some of the basic underlying principles that govern our existence, but that knowledge seems to have little overall impact on the…
Dougie doesn’t define Ontario.
Watching the first session of the new Ford government at Queen’s Park was a letdown. It was regressive, loud, uncivil, sexually repressed and barely disguised in its bigotry. The sea…
Unions Help Every Worker Earn More
Unions have a bad reputation thanks to years of corporate lobbying and companies blaming workers for executive-induced problems. Despite the negative view of unions they have helped all workers get…