September 2018
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Harris laments the lack of any consistent connection between reporting on severe weather events and the climate change which is producing them…
Democracy’s Fragility
To be sure, the elevation of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to government redounds to everyone’s shame. Led by a buffoonish thug, Doug Ford, it is a party that…
Justin Trudeau Prepares To Go After Andrew Scheer
For over a year Justin Trudeau has somehow managed to restrain himself, and not attack Andrew Scheer as he has attacked him.Even though as we all know, the creepy Scheer…
Monumental Stupidity
Everyone is fixated on Hurricane Florence. News networks have sent reporters down to the Carolinas to ride out the storm. And they’re reporting — windblown and soaked to the skin…
CBC: “Your Ward News is back, but community group still fighting to ban hate rag”
Lisa Kinsella, managing partner of The Daisy Group and one of the founding members of Standing Together Against Mailing Prejudice. The group vows do everything it can to sop the…
Star on Keesmaat: “over the top,” “seriously over the top,” doesn’t “move the city forward one iota”
This editorial slams those who have been slamming John Tory – specifically, Jennifer Keesmaat. Some quotable quotes: Keesmaat’s attacks on Tory “really come down to style far more than substance…Tory…
My answers to residents: 5
This is a somewhat edited response to a resident who asked about a splash pad. The resident also commented that, “As nice as Collingwood is, we feel that this town…
Carpetbagger Brown.
In politics, the carpetbagger is a figure of derision. The person is considered an unscrupulous opportunist who is seeking to exploit some real or imagined opportunity among local voters. No…
Opprobrium
The analysis by Richard McCandless would be headline material if corporate media were paying attention to the public interest. Burdens imposed on ratepayers measure in the billions and traditional journalists…
Doug Ford achieves the impossible: he’s gotten Canadians interested in constitutional reform!
Office-holding Conservative politicians and operatives of their well-funded Astro-Turf and think tank support network across Canada have now virtually to a man and woman jumped aboard Ontario Conservative Premier Doug…
Signs of the Times
C’mon, you know he’s right. Don’t ya just wish? How Canadian angels will pass the time come October 17th.
Sept. 13:The fall of New Brunswick
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-bishops-february-abuse-prevention-summit-1.4819974_____________________________________________________________American governments had decided there would be a World War Three even as World War Two ended in 1945. That’s what the Korean war was supposed to be – the…
Vancouver Park Board considers motion to identify, recognize First Nation names
The Canadian Press Updated: September 13, 2018 Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon says the motion is not about renaming locations such as Vancouver’s Stanley Park. A motion before the Vancouver Park Board…
Anti-racism group slams latest issue of hate rag
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The pith and substance of the s. 33 debate, in ten pithy points
The courts should not be supreme. The people’s representatives should be. Most judges think they are smarter than all politicians. They may well be, but elected people should have the…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estate
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 13, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the great global policy failure following the 2008 finance-driven crisis was to bail out bankers alone,…
New column day
Here, on how the needless use of the notwithstanding clause is just one more of the ways in which Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is dangerously similar to Doug Ford’s PC…
Doug Ford and the Harperite Conspiracy
It was a scene I never thought I would see in Canada. It could only happen in Doug Ford's Ontario.And it can only be called fascism.Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government…