Happy Father’s Day Everyone (who qualifies, that is)
Ever notice how nobody says “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” in a flattering, positive sense. But if your kid, just once, is on the run from the…
2018
Greater Sudbury Missing the Mark on Complete Streets
Complete Streets are a hot topic right now. The provision of Complete Streets in a community is usually considered part of a strategy for attracting and retaining creative class employees…
The Crunch Is Upon Us
This is an Age of Anxiety. Larry Elliott writes that it’s not hard to understand why: The past decade has seen the biggest financial crisis in a century, the biggest…
Did Brown lay the table for Ford?
The only newspaper in Ontario that gave a real damn about the lynching of conservative leader Patrick Brown back in January was his hometown Barrie Advance. It is owned by…
New Report on the State of our Democracy.
The Samara Centre for Democracy interviewed 54 former MPs from the last Parliament about their experience in Ottawa and found many of them questioning the very purpose of being an…
vancouver island day eight: nanaimo, qualicum beach, parksville
Our final full day on the island, we did a little of everything. We drove through different areas of Nanaimo, went into more bookstores, went food shopping to make a…
If F. W. de Klerk’s apartheid comparison to the fossil fuel economy is OK, why is David Suzuki’s slavery analogy an outrage?
A speech in Calgary last week by the last white president of South Africa in which F. W. de Klerk suggested the challenges faced by Alberta in the waning days…
Just Say "No" to You Know Who
An Ipsos poll released Friday finds that 70 per cent of Canadians intend to boycott American goods. Seventy per cent of Canadians say they will start looking for ways to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The OECD examines the generational implications of inequality and poverty – with the descendants of poor children in some countries requiring up to…
This, From The ‘Greatest Country On Earth’
I guess when you live in that bastion of democracy, the United States of America, one must be mindful, shall we say, an unwritten set of rules: Rob Rogers has…
Paris, 4:27
So. Lisa Kinsella takes a picture of French riot police watching over an impromptu rave on Rue de Varenne. Cool town.
vancouver island day seven: chemainus, ladysmith, nanaimo
Poor Allan, the only non-morning person in our little group, being faced with three high-octane coffee drinkers every morning! In Chemainus I let him sleep in a bit as we…
Saturday Photo: More Concrete….This Time in Peru
Moving toward the home stretch for my book Rock of Ages: How Concrete Built the World As We Know It. The University of Regina Press wants a draft by the…
The Rest Of The World Knows That
Tony Burman writes that this past week reminded us of things we already knew about Donald Trump: We already knew that Donald Trump has a pathological infatuation for dictatorships and…
Really? Another sole-sourced lawyer?
Collingwood hires lawyer for judicial inquiry. That’s the headline on a story in the Connection. Do I understand this story correctly? The same sole-sourced lawyer who encouraged Brian Saunderson and…
What muted the proportional vote advocates?
It must be the shock of the recent Ontario election has not worn off. You would normally expect a hue and cry by this time for proportional representation in the…
In yesterday walks today
When do we cease to be human? Here are children waving goodbye to their parents in Łódź, many years ago. It’s not so different than the thousands of children Trump…