Notice What You Haven’t Heard from Donald Trump Lately?
After proclaiming a great and joyous victory for America following his Singapore summit with Korean despot, Kim Jong Un, the Mango Mussolini can no longer utter the words “North Korea.”…
2018
Collingwood’s Reichstag fire
The Reichstag was the home of the German parliament until 1933, when it burned down just one month after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor. The Nazis immediately blamed the fire…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Alex Ballingall reports on the efforts of the United Nations’ special rapporteur on housing Leilani Farha to push for an enforceable right to…
If Only He Had Kept His Word
It seems the Trudeau Liberals are in for a bumpy ride to the polls in next year’s general elections. When Trudeau marked his first Canada Day as prime minister, he…
The Con Clown Stephen Harper and the Battle For Canada
It's the Canada day weekend, and it's going to be a hot one in more ways than.It's going to feel like 45 degrees in the place where I live.And July…
Let’s settle this silly supposition.
According to Toronto Star columnist Bob Hepburn, political guru David Herle says the results for the liberals would have been worse if Wynne had not announced that they would lose.…
Ontari-ari-ari-oh
Good morning. @fordnation is Premier. The birds are still chirping, the sky is still blue, and the sun came up this morning. See? We’re going to be fine. Happy Canada…
Do we need a Canadian version of the Logan Act to put a stop to dangerous freelance diplomacy?
Most observers of Canada-U.S. politics and the two countries’ unexpectedly fraught trade relationship would agree former prime minister Stephen Harper’s no-longer-secret visit to the White House on Tuesday is unlikely…
Two Mexican journalists banned from the US for five years
I sent this letter to Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06). Similar letters were sent to Washington Senators Maria Cantwell (up for re-election) and Patty Murray. Rep. Derek Kilmer 1520 Longworth House…
Musical interlude
Phantogram – As Far As I Can See
The Kingsway Cases at the LPAT: An (Unrepresented) Party’s Observations, Part 1: In the Beginning
I’ve decided that I’m going to blog about my perceptions and experiences with an appeal that I’ve filed to the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) over a land use decision…
Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions
Photo from Public Domain “Immigration” has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked — wars.…
Suzuki Wants to Save the World
David Suzuki has a plan to save the world. Boiled down, it’s rather simple. All we need do is reverse our priorities, the same pursuits that got us into today’s…
Things That are Less White than Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Cabinet
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, a former drug pusher, has cultivated his white male privilege all the way to the highest office in Ontario. Canada's most populous province has a…
Things That are Less White than Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Cabinet
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, a former drug pusher, has cultivated his white male privilege all the way to the highest office in Ontario. Canada's most populous province has a…
Things That are Less White than Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Cabinet
Rob Ford’s brother, former drug pusher, has cultivated his white male privilege all the way to the highest office in Ontario. Canada’s most populous province has a new premier, and…
Monbiot on Vanishing Life and The Curse of Creeping Normality
The Guardian’s eco-scribe, George Monbiot, bemoans the rapidly accelerating disappearance of wildlife and, worse, how we come not to notice. I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of…
Michelle Rempel and the Fake News Threat
The years since her beloved sugar daddy Stephen Harper left her, have not been kind to Michelle Rempel.Once she was a rising star, now not so much. Once the old…