As the venerable camp song goes, “My eyes are dim, I cannot see…” Indeed, my eyes are dim enough nowadays it doesn’t really make much difference whether or not I…
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging,” – Will RogersPerhaps Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party was bouyed this week by the headlines like “Liberal bleeding after SNC-Lavalin affair seems…
I don’t believe Justin Trudeau and, unless you’re one of his Gullibillies, you shouldn’t either. His arguments excuses don’t add up. Here’s a good example. In trying to justify his…
On a trip back to Toronto this week I attended the launch of a new report commissioned by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, and written by Aimee McArthur-Gupta from…
Photo by Michael Vadon President Trump has threatened China’s President Xi that if they don’t meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States…
Photo by Melissa Terrazola The movement for a “Green New Deal” has taken off in the US and Canada. The idea takes inspiration from the American post-war economic mobilization and…
Daisy. Daisy is my company, but – for almost as long – Daisy was a dog, too. I got her in 2007, at a place out of town. She rode…
See you later.
If I was the Prime Minister of Canada I probably definitely would not have done this. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet have again approved the Trans Mountain expansion…
In this day and age, we tend to parse every single new piece of information and what we hear to see if there is more in there than meets the…
The word ‘whence’ means “from what place, source, or cause”, and that is the question I would like to address with respect to the virtue of ‘open’. The question is…
The Trudeau government is looking for climate kudos for Canada’s success in fracking natural gas. The idea is that, methane leaks aside, fracked gas is a lower-carbon alternative to other…
I am a democrat and therefor I must accept the election of Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party as government of my province. The UCP won convincingly, after all,…
One of the great lies hatched by the Oil Patch and gleefully adopted by the Tories and now the Trudeau Liberals is that, when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions,…
Our contingent of Liberal supporters has fallen mute. No one, it seems, wants to defend the Trudeau government’s decision approving the Trans-Mountain/Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline. That the pre-ordained approval was…
Protest against sanctions in Canada, August 9, 2018 (@compartycanada) While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is…
Miscellanous material for your mid-week reading. – David Dayen interviews Elizabeth Warren about the role of government in ensuring that the needs of people take precedence over the power of…
Last week I wrote a piece laying out more of the cuts made by Conservatives in Ontario and Alberta and put forth the thought about how this could be a…
On May 27th, Europe awakened to what seemed to be like a new stage in the resurgence of the populist right and reactionary forces, and a major retreat for the…
David Brooks is a disillusioned conservative. In his book, The Second Mountain, he writes: “I have become radicalized … I now think the rampant individualism of our current culture is…
