I beg to disagree..
Premier Doug Ford says mainstream journalists have become irrelevant because social media allows him to speak directly to Ontarians. No Mr Fraud, we now need the MSM more than ever…
March 2019
Has former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith become a (not so) secret admirer of NDP Premier Rachel Notley?
Danielle Smith nearly became the first woman to be elected premier of Alberta. As leader of the Wildrose Party, which despite her efforts was never quite successful at portraying itself…
James Sears plans new publication/religious organization, encourages harassment, and generally feeds his massive ego
We last saw James Sears and LeRoy St. Germaine of Your Ward News enjoying the media spotlight on January 24th after being found guilty of hate crimes against women and…
March 23: The Wretched of the Eath Govern It.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/22/trump-provokes-global-anger-by-recognising-israels-claim-to-golan-heights The U.S. rules the world. Yes, it does. That’s why it can take land that doesn’t belong to it and give to another country that it doesn’t belong to.…
On wilful blindness
One of the questions faced by the participants in any party leadership contest is the appropriate type of oppositional politics that’s appropriate between candidates and their supporters. And there’s certainly…
Does God Exist?
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-de-Luz, photo by the author. Prompted by a sketch on CBC radio, I was curious this morning to see how Google would answer the question, “Does God…
Balloons More Deadly For Seabirds Than Any Other Kind of Plastic
Yale Environment 360 Published at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies E360 Digest March 8, 2019 Balloons and balloon fragments are the deadliest kinds of marine pollution for…
Progressives are justifiably angry with Jody Wilson-Raybould and her buddy Jane Philpott
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott in happier times A good friend of mine who tends to vote NDP more often than not, but doesn’t mind Justin Trudeau that much, came…
Once Again, Ottawa Fails the Coast
British Columbia’s salt water fishery is controlled out of Ottawa by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. That’s the same bunch that bungled the east coast fishery leading to the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alastair Sharp reports on the massive sums of money spent by oil barons in an attempt to undermine climate action. And Kyla Mandel…
Rex Murphy: The Liberals are now at the edge of a cliff
Unless Philpott is a fully-bleached liar, a dark trickster of utterly malignant intent, she has said things which simply cannot be passed by. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters…
Can You Feel It?
It’s been building for quite a while, at least a decade, perhaps two. It’s this gnawing feeling that we’re losing civility. It’s ever so gradually fading away. We’re moving from…
Putting Things Into Perspective
Many Canadians, including The Star’s Heather Mallick, are under the impression that the Liberals are a truly progressive party, intent on offering all of us a better future. Indeed, in…
Is This The Real Reason JWR and Philpott Are Attacking Trudeau?
I suppose that it was this photo of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott holding court at the Chateau Laurier, that finally tipped off the media.Made some of them realize that…
A Brexit Blast from the Past
Theresa May on the warpath, the new Iron Lady about to kick some EU butt. At least that’s how Brit newspapers depicted their prime minister at the beginning of her…
White Supremacy Is On The Rise
Tony Burman writes that those who think the New Zealand mosque shootings were the act of a lone wolf have their facts wrong. Those facts show that White Supremacy is…
Susan Delacourt gets it wrong. Again. Will she admit her error?
Several of you let me know that the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt was on CBC Radio yesterday. On a panel, she said that Lisa and I “are working with Jody…
Saturday Toronto: Moose in Toronto
One of the regrets of my life is that I never was able to get a New Hampshire bumper sticker for my mother’s wheel chair: “I brake for moose.” We…
drive and hike to the ocean: san josef bay
Ever since we moved here, I’ve been fascinated with our town’s proximity to Cape Scott Provincial Park. Cape Scott is a wilderness park, accessible mainly through the rugged North Coast…
Jason Kenney’s Quest.
There is something about being the big dog in a small kennel. It brings the walls to you and it feels all warm and snuggly. It must be what Jason…