The Day Justin Trudeau Struck Back At The Pervert Cons
For weeks the Andrew Scheer has been using a dead child to try to smear Justin Trudeau, as only a political pervert could.Claiming that the person who murdered the child…
October 2018
When Science Speaks Truth (Sort Of) to Power
It can’t be easy to be the bearer of bad news to a crew of powerful individuals who would rather not know. It must be all the harder for the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how abusing precarious workers has become the primary job of big business. But Owen Jones notes that strikes against…
New column day
Here, on the corporate sellouts in the Libs’ new version of NAFTA – including a little-discussed chapter designed to turn anti-regulatory bias into official policy for an entire continent. For…
Oct. 4: It took two minutes to read today’s irving press.
For three hours I have been writing this blog. Then, sudenly, everything has been erased. It happened twice. I have no idea why. Damn! It’s now been six hours and…
Premier Hypocrite
From next week’s Hill Times: During one of the more-recent debates, last Fall – when controversy was raging about “Liberal” government’s bill that would force women to remove veils when…
The Defeat Disguised As Victory
It’s beginning to look like the fix is in. The truncated F.B.I. investigation of allegations against Brett Kavanaugh has arrived at the White House, which is crowing that there is…
You’d think the “chief planner” would know something like this
Ouch. “Self-described affordable housing champion Jennifer Keesmaat did not appear to know that private condos in the province are now covered by rent control…Ontario’s former Liberal government extended rent control…
Legault’s likely legacy?
Back in August, Babel-on-the-Bay ran a column discussing the anger of the electors that can result in poor choices in politicians. At the time, only Donald Trump was discussed but…
Free advice to Senator Paula Simons: When in doubt, don’t file an expense claim; avoid sparring with PM
I imagine most journos working nowadays for the moribund and increasingly far-right Postmedia newspaper chain daydream about making a miraculous escape from their travails – perhaps a modest Lotto 6/49…
Kudos, Trudeau
Now that is what a PM should say. Here.
Getting Out of the Byron Bubble
The View from Oxford & Maitland In my very first column, I wrote about living in Byron in good ole London Ontario, a very busy life and how I was…
The 2018 VPSN Park Board Candidate Survey
Vancouver is one of only a few cities with an elected Park Board – and this year’s election will give voters a chance to elect a total of seven Commissioners.…
Manitoba Nixes Trudeau Carbon Tax
Manitoba has joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario in rejecting the federal government’s carbon pricing initiative. The Manitoba government says it is pulling out of its plan to charge a carbon…
Are The Cons Trying To Steal the Next Election?
Who can forget the way the Cons tried to steal the last election?Who can forget how Pierre Poilievre tried to suppress the vote with his so-called Fair Elections Act?Well it…
Andrew Scheer and the Grubby Con Losers
As we all know Andrew Scheer has been playing a nasty and rather kinky game. Where he uses a dead child to try to smear Justin Trudeau, and pretends he's…
The Day Donald Trump Was Exposed As A Sham
It had to be one of Donald Trump's worst days as President. For the hits just kept on coming. Boom. Boom. Boom.Each one hit him like a cruise missile, left…
Significance of Water Filters on Your Refrigerators
Water is a fundamental component that every human being requires for survival. This, therefore, means, you should be able to access water at all times. However, you will not need…
A candidates’ debate should be as diverse as the city those candidates hope to lead
…this is so basic, and so fundamental, I can’t believe it actually needs to be said. But apparently it does. This was released weeks ago. It bears repeating.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Judy Paul discusses how everybody benefits from the fight against inequality: Also of interest is the levels of trust and community life were…