Eating off the Hill: Berlin streetfood comes to Ottawa with Wolf Down
Ottawa is the town where shawarma is king. Don’t believe me? We have Shawarma King and Shawarma’s King within a few blocks of each other — yes, two different reasturants.…
May 2019
Stuff Still Happens IV, the Reckoning, week 20: The issue that won’t go away
If you want an example of how Canada and the United States differ, look no further than developments in Alabama this week. Alabama – a southern U.S. state with such…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen discusses how Justin Trudeau plans to offer nothing but more of the same broken promises and favoritism for the Libs’…
A Crazed Autocrat
Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,For goodness dare not check thee. – Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3 H/t Patrick Corrigan The above quote from Macbeth, along…
Stalin’s ghostly influence today
I recently finished reading the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s magisterial biography of Josef Stalin: About 1,700 pages so far, with another 400 or so in small-type notes. Brilliant stuff,…
Something’s Got To Give
For those of us who would like to see the Green Party hold the balance of power in Ottawa, Robin Sears turns to recent history and offers a cautionary tale:…
Danger signs of elitism in the Senate.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau is facing enough problems without his elitism coming back to bite his ass. We saw in the Senate last week where one of his elite appointees…
Boswick’s and Storie’s Tête a Têtes With Max Bernier and Paul Fromm
Because I've decided, at least for the next few weeks or perhaps months, to limit the amount of research and writing I've been doing (trying to create a bit of…
Journalist Sarah Cox takes on the dirty business of clean power in Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro
Of the many contradictory moves the John Horgan NDP government has made, Site C approval is one of the worst. Of course it was to appease the construction trade unions,…
May 18: It’s been a long day…..
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/cmhr-colonialism-genocide-indigenous-peoples-1.5141078 At last. Canada’s record has not been as brutal as the U.S. record. (nobody could be that brutal.) But, yes, it has been a genocide – and I know…
White Supremacy Beyond a White Majority (repost)
President Trump is trying to maintain white dominance as the nation’s demographics change. The white male racist patriarchy will not be denied. It is having a moment. It has its…
On cult leadership
Andrew Scheer’s scheming with oil lobbyists in advance of this fall’s federal election has received at least some attention. But it’s worth pointing out just how drastic a step Scheer…
Your Climate, Your Choice
That’s the name of a new series which, in the coming weeks, will look at and evaluate the climate-change platforms of each of our political parties. Last night’s segment was…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stewart Elgie and Nathalie Chalifour write about the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal’s recognition of the importance of action on our climate crisis. Alexis…
Justin Trudeau and the Great Trump Tariff War
Justin Trudeau hasn't had much to celebrate recently. The economy may be booming, the unemployment rate is better than it has been for 40 years.But the Schmearmongering Cons and their…
Vancouver Park Board puts moratorium on hosting new commercial events
Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier May 16, 2019 It will likely be a few years before Vancouver could see any new large-scale events coming to one of the city’s parks.…
My Socialism Includes Kids. . . .
After a lifetime of observation and thought, it increasingly seems to me that failures on the left are often not a result of leftists being too radical, but of them…
My Socialism Includes Kids. . . .
After a lifetime of observation and thought, it increasingly seems to me that failures on the left are often not a result of leftists being too radical, but of them…