Calgary Wins Grey Cup!!
Congrats to the Calgary Stampeders for their Grey Cup win tonight! On a personal level my total boycott of the National Football League remains solid. One thing I am really…
2018
Albertans Aren’t Feeling the Love
Last week Ms Soapbox wrote an article for CBC in which she called out the hypocrisy of the energy industry and various conservatives who want the Alberta government to impose…
When Politicians Become Habituated to Windfall Revenues, Nothing Good Comes of It
The oil and gas provinces of Canada – Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. and Newfoundland (okay, okay, “and Labrador”) – are places where politicians dream of easy money. All they need do…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews Christo Aivalis’ The Constant Liberal, and discusses how Justin Trudeau is continuing a family tradition of betraying progressive voters:…
Tough act(s) to follow
Hey! Look at the famous folks I get to hang with at the OREA conference tomorrow!
The Toll of the Gig Economy
From an article in today’s New York Times by Ruth Whippman: “Buying, promoting or sharing your friend’s “thing” is now a tax payable for modern friendship. But this expectation becomes…
Eating up the Hill: A Newfoundland shed party
Any Atlantic Canada-themed parties are always ones to circle on your Parliamentary reception circuit calendar, so the Newfoundland Shed Party got an early RSVP from me, and drew me up…
This Is War
Doug Ford’s government has declared war on the environment. It has systematically dismantled the previous government’s environmental policies. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Welcome to Ontario’s upside down world of global…
the move west: day six: swift current saskatchewan to calgary alberta
Greetings from Mountain Time! I had a friend from Denver who always said Mountain was the forgotten time zone. He may have been right: we forgot about the hour time…
Doppelgangers don’t do it.
There is a tendency among political leaders to have someone very much like themselves to serve as their chief of staff. It gives them confidence that the person will react…
If other Canadians don’t think Alberta should go suck a lemon, they probably soon will
Alberta! Go suck a lemon! I don’t endorse that sentiment, of course. I’m an Albertan, after all. The person who did say something like that, as it happens, didn’t say…
Faith Goldy and ID Canada Protest United Nations Migrant Pact In Toronto
I know ARC is running the risk of becoming the "all Goldy, all the time" station on this series of tubes, but damn it if she just doesn't keep providing…
Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Andrew Scheer?
Andrew Scheer has been keeping a very low profile recently. He's been absent from Question Period quite a few times. He seems to be hiding from the media, the fake…
The Surprising Part of America’s Fourth National Climate Assessment
The big surprise in the US government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment is that there are no surprises. Sure the outlook is dire. Bad things are happening to America and much…
Possessive Individualism
That’s what the political theorist C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) saw emerging historically with the rise of capitalism. Frank Cunningham in his just published intellectual biography of Macpherson, The Political Thought of…
Saturday Photo: Getting from There to Here and Vice Versa
Snow on the ground, for the moment at least. Snow clearance hasn’t been terrific perhaps because the powers that be know rain is forecast for this weekend. But between now…
Kim Jong Un Comes To Canada
Well, at least his spirit has. Kim, you may recall, despite the increasingly smiling face he presents to the world, is not a man to be crossed. Just ask those…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrea Germanos discusses the problems with relying on the charity of the uber-wealthy rather than stable and sustainable public revenues to meet the…
Mutiny?
A couple of weeks ago, the Ford government increased the number of seats necessary for official party status in the Ontario legislature to 12 from 10. Today, the Toronto Star…
Competing with Donald Trump?
It is unlikely that Canadians had any idea just how much American president Donald Trump would cost them. Our great-great grand children will be paying off Canada’s national debt. And…