The Ontario Regressive Conservative Party.
Voters eventually get tired of governments, and the Liberals have been in power for a long time; combine that with a particularly questionable policy decision on partially privatizing Ontario Hydro…
2018
Seeing Jane Goodall
A post in which I gush a bit about it all. Jane came to my city last Wednesday night. I had so much to do this week, but I had…
Chuckles brings home a report card.
Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer has spent the better part of a year in Ottawa as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. A report card is due. Will we like the report…
Democracy’s Achilles Heel
Some timely thoughts in Foreign Policy about why democracy is in retreat, especially in the United States. The author, Dambisa Moyo, is a political economist and tackles the failures of…
Musical interlude
Big Sugar – Better Get Used To It
What Do The Tyee, the National Observer, DeSmogBlog and Elizabeth Warren Have in Common?
That’s pretty easy. They’re all British Columbian and, collectively, they have laid bare the scam that the Trudeau government is perpetrating on this province so that it can force through…
How Likely is a Canadian Oil-by-Rail Boom?
In the weeks since Kinder Morgan’s announcement that it was suspending all “non-essential spending” on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline, we’ve seen yet another round of concerns about a spike…
Paikin cleared – and some background
As you all know, I vigorously and passionately support #MeToo. I believe it is the most important socio-political movement since Occupy. But it is not, and should not ever be,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Vanessa Williamson rebuts the myth that fair tax policy will drive away wealthy residents. And Mike Maciag notes that tax giveaways to the…
Jess Spindler won!
Lisa and I were very unhappy when it looked like she was going to be denied the opportunity to compete for the St. Paul’s nomination – but the Premier eventually…
Ancient Glass Sponge Reef Smothered By Salmon Farm Waste in B.C.
As Tavish Campbell dropped his remote camera into the water close to a salmon farm in the Broughton Archipelago, his heart sank. Earlier in the day, during a dive, he…
MINDFUL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE CAREGIVER
In photography, mindfulness is like observing something for the first time, even though you may have looked at it a thousand times before. For example, when you’ve been away from…
Andrew Scheer and the Alt-Right Conspiracy
I've tried to imagine who was more disappointed to find out that the man who killed so many people in Toronto wasn't a Muslim. Ezra Levant or Andrew Scheer?Because one…
Adler-Kinsella on Yonge Street – and haters who hate
It’s been a horrible week. On this week’s show, Charles and I talk about the Yonge Street massacre – and also the rapist Bill Cosby, and related gender issues.
Resistance Lives
“And this you can know – fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this…
Ignorance Still Rules the Roost
Albertans — a good number of them anyway — are making a lot of noise about the University of Alberta’s decision to award David Suzuki an honorary degree. One of…
Alberta Candidate Nomination Updates: 2 NDP cabinet ministers announce re-election and 3 more UCP MLAs plan to retire.
Photo: Oneil Carlier, Shannon Phillips, Sonya Savage, and Tyler Shandro. Nominations are picking up speed. Three more United Conservative Party MLAs have announced their plans to retire when the next…