Try Letting the People Win Some Times.
An item on the CBC web site suggests that Mr. Trudeau may appoint Chrystia Freeland to a new portfolio, perhaps deputy minister. Trudeau is being advised to leverage Freeland’s star…
November 2019
Great tweets of the day
Beluga Whale playing some rugby pic.twitter.com/OhRINNfYoq — Animal Life (@animalIife) November 9, 2019 Any hope of getting my prowl on today is #BuriedUnderTheSnow. #CatsOfTwitter pic.twitter.com/nwk2mcxru5 — ?Beware of Dogma? (@ellelljaytoo)…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala – Patience
"Alberta is in danger of becoming the Don Cherry of Canadian politics."
Nothing quite like a good one-liner. Wisdom in a few words. And Graham Thomson, one of the better columnists writing about Alberta politics, started my day off with a beauty…
Search results for FAMOUS SNORERS in History
Hollywood stars invest in snoring rooms – Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8614876/Hollywood-stars-invest-in-snoring-rooms.html Marriage ends in murder after snoring lasts decades… May 24, 2019 -Authorities have expressed shock at a recent incident of a…
Trump’s Twitter Tantrum
Historian Alan Lichtman rails about the obvious corruption surrounding the entire Ukrainian extortion effort attempt by Trump, and is stunned by his live tweeting while former Ambassador Yavanovitch was testifying…
Don Cherry Gets Fired For Being a Racist: Part II; Reactionaries Create a Circus
So I knew I would be writing about the Don Cherry fiasco again at some point, but I had no idea it would only be a day after writing Part…
Roger Stone Convicted
Trump dirty trickster, Roger Stone, guilty of witness tampering, lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. Stone was convicted on all seven charges. Enjoy the Greybar Hotel, Roger. I’m sure…
The Parliamentary Dance Begins
It’s been close to a month since Canadians elected a minority Parliament but really it was this week that we really started to see things go. All week we’ve seen…
Wolf trap
It was completely inappropriate for @CNN and @wolfblitzer to question a woman about her husband, simply because they are married. Sexist and wrong. #uspolitics https://t.co/KyJzMt1nnf — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November…
Trudeau 2.0
Notwithstanding what some say, methinks @Justintrudeau is handling this post-election period right. No stunts, no selfies, no over-saturation. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 15, 2019
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rylan Higgins argues that it’s long past time to move beyond a boom-and-bust oilpatch economy. And Ryan Meili writes that workers and residents…
Donald Booth Named Canadian Secretary to the Queen
The Canadian Secretary to the Queen is the primary means of communication between the cabinet and the monarch. They have important roles in advising the monarch and helping to organize…
The March Continues
The United States and Britain have been involved in wars for twenty years. Simon Jenkins asks a simple question: Why? After all, the results have not been not encouraging: The…
Alberta should say no to own police.
We are hearing a lot of bad ideas from Alberta of late. When premier Kenney gets into a hissy-fit, he rails and rants a lot and he comes up with…
Uh oh! Those perfidious Swedes have clearly joined the anti-Alberta energy ‘misinformation campaign of defamation’!
Why, those perfidious Swedes! First they sent their sneaky little agent Greta Thunberg in a sailboat to Alberta’s shores to stir up our young people — and that’s no mean…
That’s Where the Donald Got the Hair
Voila! Donald Trump’s hair stylist. aka Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Dayen highlights a rare moment of honesty from the payday loan sharks in their recognition that fair wages would reduce the…
New column day
Here, on how Scott Moe has been left alone and isolated by the supposed “resistance”. (Though I’ll admit I underestimated his willingness to declare his unthinking support for anything suggested…