Manipulation 101
It is to state the obvious that politicians and their party apparatchiks are practiced manipulators. They target their demographic, employ experts to craft messages to that demographic and, sadly, seem…
2018
Ignoring His Colours
The Ontario Court of Appeal has decided that what Doug Ford did in the middle of Toronto’s municipal election was unfair but not unconstitutional. Ford could have waited for the…
Less Open Debates for a More Open Democracy
The last few years of this bizarre decade have witnessed the resurgence of hate groups. Some of these hate groups are just nicer sounding Nazis and that’s a really bad…
And confusion for ‘Chuckles.’
There must be days when conservative leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer goes home to his taxpayer-provided hideaway at Stornoway and asks the wife why he is doing his duty for the…
Bob Woodward’s Fear leads Edmonton non-fiction bestseller list; Ellen Keith’s The Dutch Wife returns to top of fiction list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Sept. 16, 2018. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Alberta Election Update: Lorne Dach running for re-election in Edmonton-McClung, Mickey Amery seeks UCP nomination in Calgary-Cross
Photo: Lorne Dach, Allie Tulick, Roop Rai, and Mickey Amery. Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running for party nominations ahead of the 2019…
Photos From Vankleek Hill’s 2018 ‘Festival of Flavours’
. Photos from Vankleek Hill’s ‘2018 Festival of Flavours‘ . .
Let Me Run This Through My B.S. Remover
I read a tweet from David Suzuki today. He wrote that we’re not even keeping up with man-made greenhouse gas emissions. No, we’re steadily falling further and further behind. That…
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward tops the list of Edmonton’s Best-Selling Books
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended September 9, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Red light cameras for Collingwood?
A small but very irate number of residents have broached with me the topic of installing red light cameras at Collingwood’s traffic intersections. I hadn’t really thought about it –…
The Costliest Lesson in Buyer’s Remorse in Human History
Is the hyper-expensive F-35 stealth light bomber a lemon? Have America and her allies been cajoled into buying a dud? Could just be. When Lockheed began beating down doors to…
A Dying Canadian’s Unconscionable Predicament – Die Now or Face An Anguished Death Later
Our supposedly progressive prime minister (hint: he’s not, not even close) didn’t like the Supreme Court of Canada’s per curiam ruling on the right to die with dignity in the…
Are the Democrats and America’s Jews Headed for Divorce from Netanyahu’s Israel?
Put it down to irreconcilable differences. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, claims that, “Netanyahu is accelerating the pace of his country’s estrangement from everyone but ethnocentric and anti-democratic nationalists and xenophobes.”…
New Dark Ages are here!
Just delivered to Daisy’s office a minute ago – pre-release copies of my newest (and ninth) book, New Dark Ages!
Fascism for the 21st Century
We wince a bit when someone calls a modern leader a “fascist.” It can bring up comparisons with Hitler and that sort of thing. It’s considered a bit underhanded even…
Generation Screwed
Many of us, a large majority, have lived most or all of our lives in the era of neoliberalism that was ushered in by Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney, the faithful…
Monbiot’s "One Planet Living"
On the face of it, it sounds incredibly logical. Mankind, and all the other species with which we share this Earth, must adjust to live within the limited boundaries of…
Keesmaat’s response to changing the size of Toronto council: break up the country!
She picks a fight with everyone, all the time. Not the kind of mayor we need.
Notwithstanding, stayed
Good. I’m happy. A smaller Toronto city council isn’t a bad thing. And the notwithstanding clause dropping off the table is a very good thing. #Topoli #onpoli #Cdnpoli — Warren…