Trudeau and SNL Lavalin-Smarmy Swagger Trumps Character and Content
Justin Trudeau still won’t apologize for his SNC mess LORI TURNBULL SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Lori Turnbull is the director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie…
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Justin Says "I Take Responsibility" …But
So he broke the law, so what? He won’t apologize for standing up for Canadian jobs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts and takes full responsibility after Ethics Commissioner…
Reflections on the 1969 NDP Election Win in Manitoba
In June I attended a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the election of Ed Schreyer's NDP government in Manitoba in 1969. Fifty years ago I had just turned 21…
Reflections on the 1969 NDP Election Win in Manitoba
In June I attended a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the election of Ed Schreyer's NDP government in Manitoba in 1969. Fifty years ago I had just turned 21…
Reflections on the 1969 NDP Election Win in Manitoba
In June I attended a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the election of Ed Schreyer’s NDP government in Manitoba in 1969. Fifty years ago I had just turned 21…
Jody’s Chances Never Looked Better
Until yesterday I had never heard of Taleeb Noormohamed, a 42 year old “tech entrepreneur” the Liberals have chosen to run against Jody Wilson-Raybould in the Vancouver Granville riding. I…
Wilbur Ross – Hong Kong an "Internal Matter."
Since WWII, democracy is something totalitarian regimes use tanks to suppress. There was the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and the Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Now…
GOP Congressman Says We Shouldn’t Overlook the Good Side of Rape and Incest
Republican congressman, Iowa’s Steve King, thinks there are vestiges of rape and incest in all of us and, face it, we might not even be here today without it. To…
Climate Round-Up
One of the side effects of following developments in climate change is having to pull your punches. There are things you don’t want to talk about, especially not in conversation…
Boost Local Shopping Streets by Going Car Free
Berlin wants to support its local businesses by banning cars, and historically this has worked well for other cities. Cities the world over are converting streets built for cars into…
#LavScam shocker: Trudeau broke conflict law
That’s a Toronto Star headline, folks. Unless I’m missing something, Justin Trudeau just lost the federal election. He personally broke the law.
The 1619 Project
From the opening: “The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the…
Conflicted, Again
Just yesterday I was on CFRA talking about the most recent revelations from the CBC’s Aaron Wherry’s new book on the Prime Minister, which talked about Mr. Trudeau’s views on…
Adam Vaughan Watch: Adam lies. Again.
Adam, this simply appalling. This is not a photo of children anywhere in Canada. You know that. You need to make that clear. #cdnpoli #lpc https://t.co/MQyW7GYfdj — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
I’m running for the Manitoba Liberals in Elmwood
So it’s official: I am the Liberal candidate for Elmwood for the Manitoba Provincial Election. For those of you in Elmwood, you know that we’ve had NDP MLA Jim Maloway…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Jackson writes that bland centrism is no response to right-wing populism: Right-wing populism is a complex phenomenon which varies a lot by…
Patently Ridiculous
That is my assessment of our faux Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna, in her latest political statement in answer to the question of whether or not Canada should ban the export…
Getting the Length Right
The last Federal Election that we had in 2015 was remarkable for many reasons and we saw many things that we hadn’t seen before that had an effect on the…
Dangerous Delusion
Denying climate change, Joe Ingrham and Bernard Schutz write, is a dangerous delusion. But it is understandable — because it’s hard to accurately predict the effects of climate change: What…