Should we be worried about operatives employed by the Alberta Government’s public-private Energy War Room masquerading as journalists? Of course we should. But it’s also OK to be amused by…
I’ve never reviewed a cookbook before, but then I’ve never been this enthusiastic about a cookbook before: The Instant Pot Bible by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Why I love…
I’ve never reviewed a cookbook before, but then I’ve never been this enthusiastic about a cookbook before: The Instant Pot Bible by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Why I love…
While 2019 has been an exciting year politically, the CanadianMonarchy has been low-key in a lot of ways. The GovernorGeneral seems to have adapted to her new role and put…
Over the holidays, Paul Krugman wrote that some people are comparing Donald Trump to Scrooge. But they’re wrong. By Trump era standards, Scrooge was a nice guy: While Dickens portrays…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib discuss Donald Trump’s holiday menu of serving the rich and feasting on the poor, while Paul Krugman…
Here, on how the criticisms which were used to push Andrew Scheer out of the Cons’ leadership role in fact reflect the fundamental problems with a party built around selfishness…
It’s been a tough year. Commenting on politics in such a fluid situation as we find in North America and Europe requires considerable dedication. It is also getting expensive and…
When Vladimir Putin sought to put Russia in his authoritarian grip he had an ally, the Russian Orthodox Church. Liberated from the era of Soviet oppression, the Russian church wasted…
SNC-Lavalin headquarters in Montréal. File photo courtesy of the Canadian Press. SNC-Lavalin got the deal it had been gunning for since 2016. By then it knew that the RCMP, embarrassed…
It's Christmas Day in Canada. A day for me to give thanks for living in a country still so peaceful and so beautiful.And a day when I rerun a post…
The politicians are on break (thank god) and so are we. The Soapbox family and Rudy the rescue dog would like to wish you and yours a peaceful and happy…
It is a surprise that nobody has taken that novelty Christmas song about the Dr. Seuss character who did not like the Who having Christmas and simply substituted ‘Mr. Trump’…
Cats amidst chaos.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on the Libs’ desire to approve massive tar sands expansions no matter how the resulting production – to…
In his book The Holocaust Industry, political scientist Norman Finkelstein argues that an ideological construct has taken shape around the Holocaust that is used to cloak Israel with the status…
I just got out of mass at a little church in Brighton – we Irish Catholics can’t help ourselves – and I just wanted to wish all of you a…
My favorite passages from A Christmas Carol are the descriptions of Christmas in Victorian London: Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering…
I wasn't planning to write about politics today. It's Christmas Eve, I've totally surrendered to the spirit of the season.And with all the goodies that arrived from Scotland in the…
