Donato has captured something I’ve been saying for a while: #LavScam and the Vice-Admiral Norman mess involve identical facts: PCO/PMO interfering with criminal prosecutions the same PMO wrongdoers in both…
By any known standards, the media coverage of the SNC-Lavalin affair has been a journalistic horror show.A freakish zombie apocalypse, where the walking dead in the Ottawa Press Gallery insist…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Marshall Shepherd writes that the U.S. is facing a true national emergency in the form of climate breakdown. And Michelle Goldberg theorizes…
A short while ago, the Ford government’s plans to establish a healthcare superagency — standard conservative policy for cutting costs — leaked. There was a firestorm. The Fordians immediately fired…
The seven liberal MPPs remaining at Queen’s Park are going to carry a lot of weight in deciding the when and how of the convention to replace Kathleen Wynne as…
I could be wrong, I often am wrong. Maybe I will eat these words some day, who knows. I have eaten many words in my life. Occam’s razor fascinates me,…
Lord knows, Canadians need a February holiday! So thank God for small favours and, come to that, for Don Getty! As favours go, Mr. Getty, 11th premier of Alberta, was…
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-haiti-deportation-violence-protests-1.5021661 For decades, Haiti was ruled by dictators subservervient to American billionaires. Then Haitians won the right to vote. So the U.S. sent troops to bring back the good old…
After the Ken Davidson report to government about BC Hydro’s purchases of private power, David Beers’ wrote, “Somewhere up there Rafe Mair is smacking clouds together to make them thunder:…
The big event this weekend is of course the reactionary Yellow Vests convoy to Ottawa which Yellow Vests Canada Exposed and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network have been doing a fantastic…
One of our daughters spotted this on Facebook. She sent it along – and I at first didn’t believe it was real. Apparently it is. The link it goes to…
There’s a bunch of sketchy hombres down in Texas. Their pedigree traces back to a notoriously corrupt energy company called EnRon. After EnRon exploded and the principals were sent for…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik and Gabrien Zucman write about the developing movement toward an economic discipline which recognizes the importance of human well-being,…
Political staffers and the work they do is one of the great tropes out there in society, regardless of the country you live in. Some people say they are nothing…
--> Want to laugh at black humor? Read anything by David Sedaris. I’ve just finished his latest ramble-in-a-book-form titled ‘Calypso’. It’s very funny when it’s not causing me to blush…
People were upset to be woken up by the Amber Alert Thursday night. And now, on social media, people are REALLY upset that people were upset to be woken up…
We do these Highly-Scientific™ Polls for fun, generally. But you want to know something that is sad – that is maddening and pathetic and repellant, too? All of the quotes…
The Echo Chamber….
Is ‘Social Media an asset or an intrusive addiction? Is the ability to instantly access this stream of unfiltered information an asset or simply spreading misinformation? As someone who could…