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In July, I wrote that we planned to get rid of our LP collection. Well, the deed is done. We turned this into this first round then this What’s left:…
2018
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Oliver Bullough writes that the combination of increased wealth concentration and the free flow of money across borders to attacks currencies and governments…
My answers to SOS
The following questions were sent to all candidates by the local citizen’s group, Save Our Shoreline (SOS). These are my answers, below. I have formatted my response for better online…
Donald Trump and the Plaid Shirt Guy
Well there he was the other day in Billings, Montana, bathing in the love of his grubby supporters.Slurring his words, comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, demanding the head of the…
France Has The Right Idea
I am a member of an increasingly endangered and probably peculiarly-regarded minority. I do not have a smartphone. While I am an avid user of the Internet via my laptop…
What Donald Trump and Ezra Levant Have In Common
I realize this is a bit of a stretch, and comparisons can be odious.Especially when you're dealing with such odious characters as Donald Trump and Ezra Levant.Trump is after all…
Boneheads
Yesterday, on his way to what comedian Bill Mahar calls one of his “Nuremberg Hillbillies Rallies,” Donald Trump threatened the “ruination” of Canada. Daniel Dale writes in The Toronto Star:…
Left is the lonely lane.
I have never felt so alone in politics. The left, the progressive, the social democrat is a dying breed. Even the federal New Democratic Party is struggling with fund raising…
Economic illiteracy in Canadian media
The Fraser Institute declares Tax Freedom Day each year. It is an inaccurate trick to further interests of the millionaires and billionaires for whom the “charity” works. Many of those…
How far is the United Conservative Party prepared to go to be tolerant of intolerance? Quite far, apparently
MLA Richard Gotfried defeated candidate Cindy Ross last night for the United Conservative Party nomination in the Calgary-Fish Creek Riding. Mr. Gotfried, narrowly elected as a Progressive Conservative candidate in…
Musical interlude
Alpha 9 – The Night Is Ours
Vox populi, Scarborough-style
The people have spoken. Jen should listen. (The first lady is my favourite.)
Alleged Fredericton Killer Fan of Rebel Media and Faith Goldy
This past Wednesday while perusing my usual online haunts, I noticed a post in which Kevin "Poodle" Johnston (currently awaiting trial on hate crime charges) was promoting an interview of…
The BBC Comes Clean on Climate Change
It has been a long time coming. For years the British Broadcasting Corporation has mishandled reporting on climate change. Climate stories routinely included interviews with climate change deniers such as…
Pro tip: when you call your opponent too negative, don’t promote the stuff you’ve called negative
So, the John Tory folks put together a fun little video about the expressed desire of Tory’s main opponent, Jen Keesmaat, to secede from the province and country. Here it…
Justin, You Could Try Putting the Pin Back in that Grenade.
You know you’re dealing with grifters when a logical, perfectly sound idea won’t even be acknowledged much less discussed. Unfortunately that makes Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley, Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney…
David Shepherd secures NDP candidacy in Edmonton-City Centre, Laurie Mozeson beats Steve Thompson in Edmonton-McClung UCP contest
Edmonton-Centre MLA David Shepherd secured the New Democratic Party nomination in the newly redrawn and slightly renamed Edmonton-City Centre district at a packed nomination meeting last night in downtown Edmonton.…
Keesmaatistan traffic plan
On the right.
When tenants ‘graduate’ from Housing First programs
Over at the Research Blog of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of a study on which I’m co-author. It essentially asks the question: “When homeless…