Who is this guy Scheer?
The conservative party has been working hard over the summer at getting ‘Chuckles’ Scheer better known. It reminds me of that old Rodgers and Hammerstein song, Getting to Know You,…
August 2019
Rising gas production; declining gas revenue
It is not just royalty reduction programs that caused provincial revenues to crash. The energy ministry has followed a comprehensive program of reducing the public benefit from petroleum and natural…
Conservative mismanagement of health care, which we’re about to see return to Alberta, is a feature, not a bug
Last Thursday, Tyler Shandro advised Albertans that the promised United Conservative Party review of Alberta Health Services is rolling ahead. Well, he did once tell us that things tend to…
The Larry Pynn and Mayor Siebring Exchange
Mayor Siebring: Regarding your response… https://alsiebring.blogspot.com/2019/08/context-on-conflict.html …to my article in the Times Colonist: https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-conflict-of-interest-amid-north-cowichan-trees-1.23908016 First, I must object to the assertion that my article left the impression that Cedar Elliott…
#LavScam, translated
Longer Jody Wilson-Raybould: Justin Trudeau and his cabal are providing “false, self-serving/one-sided and inaccurate accounts.” Shorter version: “Justin Trudeau is a bald-faced liar.” Story here.
The Debate Debate Lives On
For the past few elections an on going part of the discussion around the campaign itself has been about debates, and for good reason. While not all debates make a…
Peace Bond Issued Against Kevin Goudreau Who Probably Complicated His Life Even Further Without Actually Realizing It
Why are the pretty ones so dumb? Here at the Ottawa courthouse for the peace bond hearing for Kevin Goudreau, head of the Canadian Nationalist Front (formerly the White Nationalist…
If Not Now, Then When. Canada Needs a Progressive Restoration. It’s Time for the Liberals to Stop Standing in the Way.
This would be a hectic time for progressives in government, if only there were any around. If you don’t know what a progressive is, here’s just one telltale that can…
Not What I Usually Expect From Concerned Scientists on a Monday Morning
One of the many emails I look forward to on Monday mornings is the bulletin of the Union of Atomic Scientists, a body mainly known for maintaining the Doomsday Clock.…
Joey Kardashian
This is hilarious. We’ve had Joey for 24 hours, and he’s already a social media influencer. Good catch, Proof team! pic.twitter.com/oKw0vYuxJj — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 12, 2019 Joey Ramone…
Fine Print of the Guarantee
Watching the Ford Conservative government in their first 14 months of has been something else. It hasn’t been the smoothest operation and Doug Ford himself has managed to put a…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of August 12, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of August 12, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Aug…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 12, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 12, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: A Relentless Jailhouse Lawyer Propels a Case to the US Supreme Court…
The Larger Forces At Work
If we seek to know what is going on in Trump World, Paul Chadwick writes, we have to step outside the news cycle and carefully choose our sources. One of…
Raptors President embraces bloodstained dictator
Paul Kagame with Masai Ujiri at the NBA Africa Summit (Flickr) Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri claims to be an ambassador for Africa, but his embrace of the most bloodstained…
Soapless Showering is Fine
Here’s some good news for lazy people (really for everyone): you don’t need to shower everyday and you don’t even need to use soap. After years of propaganda from the…
My latest: Trudeau is likelier to win
Dief’s jowls jiggled. His brows bristled. “I’ve always been fond of dogs,” the Conservative leader declared, and the assembled media throng — the ones who had just informed him that…
Singh sings a survival song.
You have to admit, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the new democrats, is a hard worker. His main objective in the run-up to the October 21 election is to try to…
How to make The Telegram better #nlpoli
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