How Is This Even Possible? Trump Picks a Fox For the Nation’s Hen House.
A new chapter in the “Donald J. Trump Book of Malevolence.” Trump has recently turned his attention to health care so who does he choose as his new healthcare czar?…
April 2019
What We’re Up Against – The Gang That Would See Canada in Ruins.
It’s the cast of “The Gang of Thugs” premiering this fall.
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that Canada’s Changing Climate Report should be a loud wakeup call about the need to avert climate breakdown, even as…
What would you do if you were the Conservatives?
You are faced with a real problem. You have elected a dorky overly-religious leader prone to associating with white supremacists. A disaffected leadership candidate has formed a splinter party. The…
Vaughn Palmer: NDP gets Green scorn, Liberals’ props for getting LNG to a finish line
It is a sad day when the BCNDP embrace such destructive projects as LNG Canada to the detriment of our environment, economy and political independence free from the muscle of…
That Horse, It’s Dead. Leave It Alone.
The SNC-Lavalin business has jumped the shark. That’s not to say it’s over or that there may not be new revelations but, until something seismic comes out – if ever,…
My Letter to Greater Sudbury Council Regarding Request for Decision on Ranked Ballots for 2022 Municipal Election
It was with significant concern that I read in the media this week that Council is going to be asked to decide next week on what form of ballot voters…
Raising the Cowichan Weir is something that needs to happen
Originally posted on Cowichan Valley Now By Kyle Christensen, staff Friday, Apr. 5th, 2019 As we head toward another drought season, the provincial government understands the need to raise the…
And A Fool
This week, students across Ontario walked out of their classes. Martin Regg Cohn writes: On Thursday, more than 100,000 students walked out of schools across the province, not to cut…
Your #LavScam weekly roundup (and this is just a sample of a few papers, folks)
Rosie DiManno, Toronto Star: “THE LIBERALS HAVE ABANDONED THEIR MORAL PRINCIPLES…and it’s Justin Trudeau’s fault…It is dismaying to me, a political agnostic, that thuggery is now attached to the federal…
Saturday Photo: The Importance of Keeping the Hard Copy…
The fellow in the middle is my maternal grandfather, J.F. McDonald–or at least that’s the name he used for the last 50 years of his life. It was taken when…
www.warrenkinsella.com: why we get ads in election years
…and some ads are going to be starting Monday. The stats are interesting. Check out the last 180 days: Hmmm… wow, traffic sure is up since some time in early…
Tip-toe through these tulips.
This is a story about women of a certain age and how a man has to tip-toe carefully to explain or be maligned and castigated as sexist. It is just,…
There Are Not Enough Sad Songs, poetry by Marita Dachsel, tops Audreys Books Fiction Bestseller List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended March 31, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview: Yet ANOTHER UCP Candidate Linked To Extremists?
In October 2018, the United Conservative Party held a meet and greet at a pub in Edmonton. Among those who showed up for the event was the leader of an…
Musical interlude
Poor Nameless Boy – Argue
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Will McMartin writes that if we needed more evidence that Jason Kenney’s trickle-down economics are nothing but a scam to concentrate more wealth…
On double standards
Shorter Murray Mandryk: I’d never be so unreasonable as to suggest Saskatchewan Party cabinet ministers could be expected to listen to protests against their own government. But for Ryan Meili,…
Smooth Move, Mike
In 1998 the Ontario government of then premier, Mike Harris, sold the 407 highway to for $3.1 billion to a Spanish-led consortium that included – wait for it – SNC-Lavalin.…
Jody Critics – You’ve Got Company. Conrad Black Appears Like-Minded
Lord Connie of PiddlePuddle has spoken. Trudeau should have turfed Justice Minister Jody long ago. And, FFS, stop getting worked up about fine Canadian enterprises greasing a few palms along…