One Down…
Yes, I know how callous that sounds given that, I suppose, David Koch couldn’t have been all bad. He must have done something good beyond greasing the path for America’s…
August 2019
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mia Rabson reports on a new Climate Action Network report card showing that Canada’s plans for greenhouse gas emissions are as bad as…
Fundamental Incompetence
All those boos this summer have gotten to Doug Ford. His government has gone back to the drawing board and is revamping its funding strategy for autistic children. And yesterday…
Sex comes back to Ontario.
After supporting the religious right in denouncing the recent revision to the sex curriculum in Ontario schools, the Ford regime introduced a version suspiciously similar to the previous liberal version.…
The Manitoba Liberal Party Policies: a brief guide
So I’m knocking on doors and talking to people in Elmwood, and I’m getting questions about the policies that the Manitoba Liberals are putting forward, and that are worthy of…
The Day Andrew Scheer Revealed His Hatred For Gay People
I've tried hard to explain why I find Andrew Scheer's religious homophobia so deeply disturbing. I think it's important to do that because it explains so many things about Scheer,…
New column day
Here, on how right-wing provincial governments across Canada are deliberately denying benefits to their constituents solely to try to avoid any credit going to the federal level in advance of…
August 22: The Canadian Disaster
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shock-denmark-greenland-cancels-visit-1.5254311 This is serious. The U.S. has a president whose ego is wildly out of control. And it can only get worse. This is a man of huge arrogance and…
We Don’t Need a Scientist; We Need a Priest
PhilosophyTube is one of my favourite channels for in-depth analysis of issues in a philosophical and comedic yet profoundly heartfelt manner. Today Ollie tackled “Climate Grief” by working through the…
Your Ward News Sentencing Update: One Down. One to Go.
As the sentencing hearing for Your Ward News editor, James Sears, and publisher, LeRoy St. Germaine, resumed this afternoon, I started taking bets with friends about whether it would drag…
Hate rag editor gets a year in jail
Finally. James Sears, the editor of the so-called newspaper called Your Ward News, was finally sentenced this afternoon in a Toronto courtroom to one year in jail. He’d been convicted…
Canada Must Stop Land Fraud: Press Release of the Mohawks of Kanesatake
Photo by Jessica Deer/CBC On 21 August 2019, Ellen Gabriel and other Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) of Kanehsatà:ke held a press conference in the Pines, the site of the so-called “Oka Crisis”…
James Sears, Editor of Racist, Antisemitic, and Misogynistic Rag "Your Ward News" Sentenced To One Year
More information will posted in another article but in the meantime here are a few reactions: James Sears, who was convicted of two counts of willfully promoting through his publication,…
The Life and Times of Justin Trudeau – The Long Read, The Guardian
Justin Trudeau is featured in The Guardian’s latest “Long Read.” The title – “Justin Trudeau: the rise and fall of a political brand” – has something for everyone, fan and…
Eight Years Ago…
In many ways, I consider myself to be very blessed and to be very fortunate. I have a loving family who I can always depend on, an amazing wife and…
The Lungs Of The Planet Are Failing
Called “the lungs of the planet,” the Amazon rainforest is now ablaze; this year alone has thus far seen about 73,000 fires. When you consider that the rainforest provides about…
Cowardice
Two days ago, Donald Trump backed down on his pledge to legislate background checks for gun owners. Max Boot writes: What the hell is wrong with us? After every mass…
Wilson-Raybould’s not a party person.
It was amusing reading Jody Wilson-Raybould’s remarks yesterday seeking to justify her running as an independent candidate. What a terrible waste of talent, tenacity and time that is! It is…