Ontario And The Rest Of Canada
The Liberals held a convention in Halifax this week. Policy ideas — like legalizing sex work — were discussed. But, Susan Delacourt writes, if you want to know what policies…
2018
The Day Justin Trudeau Struck Back At Andrew Scheer
For almost a year Andrew Scheer has gone after Justin Trudeau like a creature out of Hell.He has attacked him day after day after day, as only a religious fanatic…
Stapling, spindling and folding Ford.
Millennials might not be as familiar with the admonition we used to read on our household bills. Before the Internet, our bills were often delivered to us as data processing…
Weeding the Garden
“You have to tend to this garden of democracy, otherwise things can fall apart fairly quickly. And we’ve seen societies where that happens,” Former president Barack Obama And we have…
Tory canoe and Trudeau too* – Liberals take advantage of Jason Kenney’s “Canada is broken” Tweet
Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kennedy’s now famous “Canada is broken” Tweet a week ago may turn out to have been the symbolic starting point of the 2019 federal election campaign.…
Gwich’in Call on Canadians to Speak Out Against Trump’s Arctic Drilling Push
Canadians are being urged to fight against a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to fast-track drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in the calving…
Calgary and Vancouver Island Northern Guard Members’ Ties To Racists and Antisemites
Looking through the photos taken of the anti-Muslim "Christian freedom" protest at Calgary City Hall from last Saturday, I couldn't help noticing some familiar patches on some of the participants.…
Is Catholicism Antithetical to Liberal Democracy?
Pope Francis is a neat guy, at least to most of us. He’s a welcome breath of fresh air after his rigid, hard line predecessors. Catholicism has some pretty deep…
April 21:Forgive me again….
…for starting with my local newspaper chain, the Brunswick News. It’s so intellectually and morally corrupt it screams for attention. It also is a prime example of what’s wrong with…
On Peterson, Political Correctness, and Postmodernism
Peterson was on Bill Maher last night. They’re both people that have some clever ideas, but also promote a few questionable notions in a way that’s slick enough to just…
Doug Ford: When Ignorance Kills
The thought of Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario fills me with horror and disgust, for there is no telling what that political ape might do to degrade our country,…
The Morality of the More Powerful
My own sense of morality has always been from the perspective of the more powerful. This is not because I am the most powerful person in the world; far from…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Quirks & Quarks examines the potentially devastating effects of a dilbit spill on British Columbia’s coast. And David Climenhaga warns that Kinder Morgan…
The price of success for Netflix.
As Netflix keeps adding to millions of subscribers, so do the costs to customers. There is no free lunch and what started as the poor man’s alternative to network programming…
Don’t Believe It
California Governor Jerry Brown visited Ontario this week. He’s worried that the province will back track on its promise to fight climate change. Tom Walkom writes: The governor has harnessed…
Our Self-indulgence Is Coming Home To Roost
Fifty years for a Styrofoam cup to break down. Four-hundred-and-fifty years for a water bottle. Those are but two disturbing facts you will glean from this very disturbing report on…
Death knell for net metering
BC Hydro fears the amount of power fed to the grid by participants in net metering will expand substantially. As a result, this week the utility announced they intend to…
Musical interlude
The Stills – Hands On Fire