Andrew Scheer’s Cowardly Lying Newser
It had been over a week since the Liberals dug up a tape of Andrew Scheer comparing LGBT Canadians to dogs.And about four days since his Cons were caught lying…
August 2019
Are We Willing to Lose This Without Even Putting Up a Fight?
How do you not show up to fight against an existential threat? It’s existential. It imperils your very existence. Jason Kenney’s Canada, Scott Moe’s Canada, Doug Ford’s Canada as well…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rick Salutin writes that Canada’s lack of accessible housing arises primarily as the result of general inequality. Derek Thompson notes that youth athletics…
Back To Basics?
The Ford government has decided that the way Ontario students are taught math is FUBAR. And their solution is GBTTB — Go Back To The Basics. Martin Regg Cohn writes:…
Self-Inflicted Wounds
I have to admit that the start of this federal campaign period has been pretty underwhelming for me. Maybe it’s because I’ve come to expect better of political parties or…
Eric King in Colorado facing charges that carry a maximum of 20 years in prison
Political prisoner Eric King is being held right now in segregation at FCI Englewood. He is in Colorado facing charges that carry a maximum of 20 years in prison. These…
Autonomous Objects
The sharing economy should be about sharing more than profits. At least that’s what the thinkers behind the sharing economy called for in the early days of the term; however…
Senator Peter Harder tries harder.
Former civil servant, Peter Harder really likes his new job in the Senate of Canada. As an independent(?) appointee to this body, he is also the government representative in the…
Calling Peter MacKay! Could you remind us what we were fighting for in Afghanistan again?
Peter MacKay, former Harper Government defence minister and one of the dimmer candles to cast his flickering light Canadian affairs, turns out to have been a prophet after all! Who…
YWN Sentencing Update: St. Germaine gets 1 year House Arrest, Sears out on Bail
After James Sears was led away in handcuffs last week, the sentencing of LeRoy St. Germaine to one year house arrest for promoting hatred against women and Jews is anti-climactic…
A Lack of Contrition
It’s now been a week that Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has found himself with a big problem on his positions around some social issues. First there was the re-release of…
Andrew Scheer And The Return Of Stephen Harper
We always knew that Stephen Harper never really went away. And that he was still lurking in the shadows whispering into Andrew Scheer's ears. And pulling his strings.The two men…
August 29:starve your family, pay for wars…..
….our billionaires need your money._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-oil-and-gas-methane-emissions-1.5263859 Of course. And before you heave a sigh of relief that we Canadians don’t live in the U.S., think. Canada’s Conservative party is the…
Ed Whittingham seeks energy/environment middle ground
Alberta lives with two conflicting facts: first, humanity is faced with its greatest crisis ever—global warming—caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels; and second, humanity will have to rely…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Liaquat Ahamed writes about the pattern of wealth concentrating in the absence of a countervailing force – and the need for a…
No Time For Apathy
Here’s a scary thought: Boris Johnson was inspired by Stephen Harper. Susan Delacourt is suggesting that possibility: Johnson is putting parliamentary sittings on ice until Oct. 14, just shortly before…
Not-so Friendly Manitoba Debate
With the Federal Election just around the corner, there is one last race to take place before the big show in the fall. That race is the Manitoba Provincial Election,…
Our political parties fail democracy.
The party members have no one to blame but themselves. They have let the top-down party system run their parties since the Chrétien era. It was the simple change that…
Rubes with pockets to be picked
Salaries have risen dramatically for years at BCi, the province’s public pension funds manager. Current and future pension beneficiaries are treated as rubes with pockets to be picked. The amount…
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