NATIONAL CARERS DAY: A TIME TO THANK YOURSELF AND TELL OTHERS!
April 3rd is National Carers Day in Canada. You won’t receive any cards or cakes for National Carers Day. You won’t be handed a box of chocolates or a new…
2018
Hog Trump and the Corruption That Could Destroy Him
As I'm sure you know, I've been portraying Donald Trump as a hog as long as I can remember.I realize that there are other names one could call that misogynist,…
Refuse to Cooperate: Karl Marx – Founder of Historical Materialism
Refuse to Cooperate: Karl Marx – Founder of Historical Materialism: “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” – Karl Marx This short biography is based on Friedrich Engels’…
Refuse to Cooperate: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy – A Revie…
Refuse to Cooperate: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy – A Revie…: “Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he…
Column: the Canadian connection
It’s the biggest political scandal in the world. And it involves a bunch of Canadians. For quite some time now, it’s been known that Vladimir Putin’s Russia – and assorted…
Ford isn’t fast with his math.
It was really very funny last Thursday when conservative leader Doug Ford got pompously to his feet to harangue the liberal government for their election budget. It seems that towards…
Conventional media bias #nlpoli
You know what “spin” is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin when someone uses an interpretation of an…
The Road From a Victoria Startup to An American Billionaire Runs Right Into No. 10.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal gets murkier by the day and now it wends its way from some data wizards in a walk-up shop in Victoria through Republican America (Robert Mercer,…
Reflections on Easter Sunday, 2018: There really is a war against Christianity … it’s being waged by Christians
PHOTOS: Easter Sunday shoppers at West Edmonton Mall. Is nothing sacred? Well, actually, something is: The Almighty Market, god of Canada’s state religion. Below: A brass idol to the Market…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #28
With apologies to my man C. Dickens, it was the worst of customers, it was the best of customers. Our Children’s Department is short-staffed right now, and although that is…
Thoughts on Politics at Easter
Easter is not usually the time to reflect upon grumpy whiners; but given Jason Kenney’s mission to rebuild the conservative movement in Alberta this might be a good time to…
POLLSTER BOMBSHELL: “I pulled this one out of my ass.”
In an exclusive interview with Queer-liberal (exclusive because the short attention spans of other Queen’s Park reporters caused them to sashay away after the question was asked), pollster Lorne Bozinoff…
The Pressure Builds
Following up on my post the other day, there is no sign that the pressure Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has placed on Fox’s Laura Ingraham is abating. Indeed, one…
March 31:this is funny….
….but very, very dangerous. http://pressprogress.ca/ontario-pc-leader-doug-ford-claims-hell-cut-cbc-even-though-cbc-is-not-provincially-funded/ In much of the western world, we are moving into the same phase that Germany entered in the 1930s. We are dissatisfied (and justly so)…
The Many Unholy Lies of Andrew Scheer
Andrew Scheer claims to be a great Canadian and a great Christian. Not necessarily in that order.And his Easter card has a sinister looking cross on it big enough to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne offers her take on the need for Canada to catch up to the rest of the developed world in providing…
Whether Or Not
When Fox News stalwart Laura Ingraham mocked gun control advocate David Hogg this week, Hogg did not take the insult lying down. Jennifer Rubin writes: Rather than return her juvenile…
Wynne: Caring or Condescending?
Never having been much of a fan of Ontario Premier Wynne, I suspected that the recently revealed Ontario budget was more of a deathbed repentance than a bold plea for…
Warren Kinsella appointed to run for Ontario PC party in 2018 election
TORONTO – Warren Kinsella, a Toronto author, consultant, musician and visiting professor of law, has been appointed the Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Lakeshore-Beaches-Woodbine. Kinsella, a lifelong…