Where’s Caroline?
That’s Bob Hepburn’s question in this morning’s Toronto Star: Mulroney, who was appointed as attorney general in June by Premier Doug Ford, is turning out to be a huge disappointment…
September 2018
When Disaster Bears Down
I doubt I am alone in assuming that people who ignore mandatory evacuation orders when disaster is impending do so out of either willfulness or hubris. As the following report…
The constitutional beast is back
From next week’s Hill Times: And that, to me, is Doug Ford’s biggest problem. Not that he overturned a court decision everyone expected him to win. Not that he used…
Is ‘Lyin Brian’ Trump’s Judas goat?
We saw how former prime minister Brian Mulroney negotiated the original NAFTA. When the public service negotiators hit an impasse, Mulroney sent in finance minister Michael Wilson to replace the…
My answers to AOC
The following questions came from the local chapter of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO). They were sent to all mayoral and deputy-mayoral candidates, but I am unsure whether council…
Sarah Hoffman secures NDP nomination in Edmonton-Glenora, MLA Dave Hanson fends off two challengers in Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Minster of Health and Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman has been nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate in Edmonton-Glenora for the next election. Hoffman was first elected as MLA for…
The Dougtatorship notwithstanding, what have you got to fear, Mr. Scheer?
What have you got to fear, Andrew Scheer? Is there a single office-holding Conservative in this country who is willing to stand up for the fundamental rights of Canadians as…
Don’t Let America Drag Us Into Its Cesspool In the Name of Competitiveness
A disturbing report from Price Waterhouse Coopers prepared on behalf of the Business Council of Canada (the usual suspects) warns that the Trump tax cuts could put 635-thousand Canadian jobs…
A Eulogy for Rachel Notley
The Tyee’s Mitchell Anderson has penned a farewell to “The Sad, Timid Failure of Rachel Notley,” the soon to be ousted premier of Alberta. Notley, writes Anderson, came to power…
She makes children of us all’: Guardian writers pick their favourite Kate Bush lyrics
Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one,…
Paying $185,000 for each job
BC’s fossil fuel industry benefited from credits worth $902 million in fiscal year 2018 and $4.2 billion in the past five years. Each of the jobs in oil and gas…
Here Come da Judge
This is Bob Meadows, a circuit court judge from Florida. That won’t matter much to you but listen to what he wrote: Here is one American’s take on the growing…
Vancouver park board chair Stuart Mackinnon’s motion seeks to advance decolonization efforts
Travis Lupick on September 12th, 2018 When, in 1792, Capt. George Vancouver named the body of water that today flows beneath the Lions Gate Bridge the Burrard Inlet (after his…
Trump’s 30 Years of Red-Square Bashing
It seems that Donald Trump has been studying the Kremlin drill manual for about thirty years. Now, just in time for the mid-term elections, two exposes of Trump’s lengthy ties…
Bill Davis: a Canadian political giant speaks
From Steve Paikin’s spot: As a rule, former Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis has avoided weighing in on controversial issues since he retired from public life in 1985. He is…
North Carolina – the First Little Piggy. Now the Big, Bad Wolf Is At The Door.
Oh, well. It’s not like they couldn’t have seen it coming – if only they had bothered to open their eyes. North Carolina is about to receive what southerners like…
Flawed Ford Logic On NWS Clause
Of all the scenarios out there where I’d envision a provincial government in Ontario invoking or trying to invoke Section 33 of the Charter (the “notwithstanding clause”) to override court…
FIDLAR!
Seeing the guys again tonight with my daughter – and, yes, I’m regularly the oldest guy at FIDLAR shows. They are godlike geniuses. Here’s one of their recent best. See…