While thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, were taking part in Pride events throughout Edmonton today, Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party held a private, conservatives-only “Pride Breakfast” a few blocks from…
About this bullshit. Let’s see if they publish it. I’m not holding my breath. In her June 8, 2018 news story, ‘Between the smiles, mounting tensions between Trudeau and Trump,”…
He came bounding into his first news conference as Premier-elect, looking as if he couldn't believe it himself.He spent the next half hour waffling about some of the many wild…
I agreed to stand for election because it was an opportunity — an opportunity to bring a progressive perspective to a riding where those ideas are usually overlooked, and a…
This and that for your weekend reading. – Trish Hennessy examines the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, while Andrew Mitrovica traces the spread of Trumpian antisocial populism. And Doug Nesbitt…
Donald Trump is in Quebec this morning, working hard to tear the Western Alliance apart. Jonathan Chait writes: Western trade partners have attempted to reason with Trump’s demands, but the…
Woke up about 2 a.m. to the sound of cars racing. This is Grand Prix weekend and the town is full of wannabes who are driving muscle cars too fast.…
Most people are sceptical about political promises. We should certainly be dubious of conservative leader Doug Ford’s recent scattering of promises in the Ontario election. Some, such as paving over…
Canada, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan are today committed to pumping billions of dollars into the inevitable carbon bubble. Delaying transition to renewables to extract additional wealth from fossil fuels…
Tweets for you to clip and save: Back on Pearson free wi-if! Howdy, CSIS and NSA folks, working overtime on a Friday eve! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 9, 2018…
Which made me laugh.
The Veronicas – Cruel
Washington Governor Jay Inslee meets with BC Premier John Horgan in Victoria (Flickr/Province of BC) By Joyce Nelson In a widely published June 3 op-ed for Postmedia newspapers, Thomas Gunton…
When your car’s steering gets wobbly it’s time to get it into the shop and have it re-aligned. Maybe it’s time Canada did something along those lines. No, not just…
There is no proof that Donald Trump is working for Vlad Putin but Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice, writes that Putin couldn’t have wished for a better stooge. Mr.…
First of all, I do not apologize. I have nothing to apologize for. No one should apologize for having an unpopular opinion, or an opinion that the majority finds offensive.…
Donald Trump likes to pretend he’s shaking everything up. In fact he’s tearing everything down and what he can’t tear down his instinct is to bog it down. You could…
I just finished reading a book by Jordan Tannahill, entitled Liminal. Here is an excerpt that, given the Ontario election results, seems an appropriate parable. I offer it without further…
Assorted content to end your week. – Frances Ryan highlights the disgrace of social programs designed to strip away basic supports when they’re needed most: Poverty has long been put…
