The Star soldiers on with Regg Cohn.
The Toronto Star must have made its provincial affairs writer Martin Regg Cohn point man for the newspaper’s war against demon rum. Ontario used to have the Woman’s Christian Temperance…
June 2019
A Brightness Long Ago, by Guy Gavriel Kay, tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestseller List for fiction this week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended June 23, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
June 27: Damn fools – all of us
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-heat-records-1.5191106 Gee. Can you imagine how bad it would be if there was a real climate change going on? Aren’t we lucky there’s no such thing?___________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/will-migrant-photo-salvadoran-father-daughter-change-minds-1.5191462 Too bad nobody…
Chris Vanderweide Arrested and (Wait For it) Far Right Infighting
As a result of his actions (assaults) in Hamilton at a Pride event and Toronto after a Pegida rally, Chris Vanderweide had been ridding rather high as a result of…
Isn’t Politics the Real Problem?
The CBC had an ‘experts panel’ today answering audience questions about climate change. One topic that was expressly off-limits was politics. I listened for a while but it was all…
Alberta should learn from the Trump tax cuts
The new Alberta government has promised to reduce the corporate tax rate from twelve to eight per cent over four years. This may seem arbitrary considering the conservatives have complained…
Is Anglosphere Democracy Becoming an International Joke?
Not long ago, if one were asked to name the world’s two leading democracies, the answer would probably have been the United States and the United Kingdom—the United States largely…
Wall Was/Is Wrong About Coal In China
“China will increase their coal use by 19% over 5 years.” “Vietnam, India and many others Asian nations are ramping up coal to give more of their people electricity. The…
Why The Trudeau Liberals Are Rising Again In The Polls
It was a grim winter for Justin Trudeau and his Liberals. A series of fake scandals, whipped into a frenzy by our shabby Con media, dragged down their polls.And at…
We’ll Always Have Paris
That prediction/lie didn’t work out too well. On Wednesday, Todd D. Stern, the United States special envoy for climate change, who was in Beijing for talks, said that some Chinese…
A Day I Thought I’d Never See
Since my first day working in political Ottawa, there have been many moments when I’ve been reminded of where I am, what I was doing and what that meant. I’m…
MIA
Got our local Liberal MP’s first election drop piece. Justin Trudeau’s name and photo is nowhere to be seen on it. Nowhere.
He’s Running Out Of Scapegoats
In another two days, Doug Ford will have been premier of Ontario for a year. And, after a year, the Ford operation is beginning to smell. But Ford blames others…
The Best Little Gravy Train in Ontario
As I noted here a couple of days ago, the troubles for the Ford Conservatives at Queen’s Park don’t seem to be close to being at an end. While the…
‘Chuckles’ challenges consensus.
There will be no apology for calling federal conservative leader Andrew Scheer, Chuckles. He practically giggled his way through a ten-minute on-air version of an interview with Mercedes Stephenson on…
The Senatorial Selection Act explained – a farcical, faux exercise, for sure, but a clever one
Never mind the details for a moment, this is all you really need to know about Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s constitutionally meaningless Senate elections law, introduced as Bill 13 in…
Conservative Racist Propaganda Is Beyond The Pale
CPC Racists are at work in Andrew Scheer’s Photoshop department. Why does the CPC still have any support from good Canadians? Here’s what Doug Ford and Scott Shmoe’s federal party…
Blood & Honour/Combat 18 Listed as Outlawed Terrorist Organizations
I created the blog in November 2007 in large part to monitor the Aryan Guard, a Calgary-based hate group founded by Kyle McKee that I saw as having an incredible…
Celebrating 1919 – the Victoria Teachers’ Strike in Context
For the 100 anniversary, the Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association presented a historical talk about the 1919 Victoria Teachers’ Strike. The talk includes three local Victoria speakers: Tara Ehrcke (me!) –…
My latest: dogs and politicos
Why do political people love dogs? Because we do, we do. Proof is at hand. MacKenzie King’s personal legacy – characterized, as it was, by his avid spiritualism, his byzantine…