Conservatives need to rally around something simple – Tax cuts
Its Sunday, and I am in a really good mood. I’m not able to make it to Church every week due to my work schedule, but today was not one…
2018
Some Federal Scientists Still Not Free to Speak About Work Under Trudeau Government
Remember the bad old days when federal scientists were muzzled by the Harper government and, even when health, safety or the environment were threatened, researchers were not allowed to talk…
The United States and China: Game of Superpowers
Fifty years ago, in 1968, Richard Milhous Nixon made his second run at the presidency. No one would dispute that he was a greater statesman than political personality. But, he…
Beautiful Curves
Antelope Canyon X – Page Arizona
Brace Yourselves. This Might Just Ruin Your Day.
Remember we all said he would never get elected? We all were convinced that Hillary Clinton would become the first woman president of the United States. And then, like a…
Stuff I Learned This Week no.3: Why our best ever Olympics feels like a loss
The Olympics are over, and we in Canada can now go back to ignoring ‘big air’ and ‘half-pipe’ and even ‘mixed-doubles curling’. The record book will show that this was…
OMG, It’s Trump With a Badge
The sheriff of Broward County, Florida, sounds like a Trump wannabe. Sheriff Scott Israel was quick off the mark to heap scorn and derision on the school’s rent-a-cop, Scot Peterson,…
How The Con Media Made Themselves Look Like Idiots. Again.
As we all know, the good old boys from the parliamentary press gang have been in a frigging frenzy recently. Covering Justin Trudeau's visit to India, from Ottawa and/or somewhere…
La Bohème at the Galaxy
Starving bohemian artists living in drafty Paris attics in the mid-19th century, struggling to produce their art, falling in and out of love, sharing and suffering, living and dying, all…
A Dying Cause
As a reasonably rational individual, I no longer look upon the ongoing cascade of gun massacres in the United States with either horror or sadness; the only real emotion I…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nick Falvo highlights some of the most important proposals in the CCPA’s alternative federal budget (parentheticals omitted): 3. Introduce a national pharmacare…
Repeating The Same Mistakes
Political parties, Robin Sears writes, tend to make the same mistakes. That is true of Canada’s three major parties — particularly true when a new generation of leaders takes over.…
in which i finally give up my blackberry
Well, I finally did it. I gave up my BlackBerry, and got a Samsung Galaxy phone. Yeah, I know, welcome to the 21st Century. Goodbye, old frenemy I previously only…
In search of a Red Tory in Ontario.
There are two former Conservative Members of Parliament whom I could vouch for as Red Tories. They are both very fine and principled gentlemen. They are Patrick Boyer and David…
Trudeau in India, Part I: PM’s family goes full Bollywood; Conservatives freak out; some alterations suggested
PHOTOS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and their children visit the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, during Mr. Trudeau’s official visit to that country. Below: Mr.…
Yet ANOTHER Pegida Canada Rally In London Fails
One day Pegida Canada might get the message that neither they nor their message are welcome in the city of London, ON and they will leave. While this was not…
Town Hall Discussing Systemic Racism Disrupted By Bigot and Racists
This past Thursday an Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Town Hall took place at the Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto. The panelists included Lisa Kinsella who spoke about her efforts…
On historical perspective
I’ll give Roland Priddle this much: he’s absolutely right in his impression that the best way to argue for waving through expanded tar sands pipelines without an unbiased review is…
It Wasn’t a Lack of Firepower That Caused the Parkland School Massacre
In the wake of the shooting deaths of 17 people, students and teachers, at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, officials, including the Mango Mussolini, were quick…
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers Meets Donald J. Trump
The Guardian’s take on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is that it vaguely resembled The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.Donald Trump has created a Born Again GOP, made…