Overplaying Their Hand
Opposition Members of Parliament have some tools at their disposal to help drive the agenda or raise issues they feel are important. Granted that over the past few decades, that…
2019
The Perilous Plight of the Southern Resident Orca
To the National Energy Board the TransMountain pipeline expansion is “likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects on the Southern resident killer whale.” The NEB went on to conclude, “yeah,…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast – PMO/SNC Scandal and By-Election Monday
Episode Three of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now up and ready to listen to. In this episode, I talk about the SNC Lavalin/PMO scandal, it’s effects and the week…
Stuff Happens, IV: The Reckoning, week 8: It’s Oscar Sunday … zzzzz
Well, it’s Academy Awards Sunday. Remember when that used to be a big deal? As a longtime movie fan and pop culture junkie, I’ve always watched the Oscars with varying…
‘Wrecking ball’ hits two capital cities, where scandals continue to rage
Scandals are becoming as common as Wednesday throughout the country. The width and breadth have yet to have been fully revealed in either the SNC Lavalin scandal or the behaviour…
walking the walk: if canada is serious about reconciliation, the senate must pass bill c-262
Canadians, contact the Senate. Urge them to work together to pass Private Member’s Bill C-262, “An Act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United…
We get letters: Max’s Mannschaften write in
My column on the racism and anti-Semitism that permeates Maxime Bernier’s “People’s Party” – I use flying quotes because it is neither: it’s a personality cult, not a party, and…
We Should Stop Paying For Over-Budget Infrastructure Projects
Cost overruns on the Ottawa public transit project beg many questions related to accountability, fraud, legalities related to commitments and conflicts of interest. All municipalities should reconsider major infrastructure projects…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn and Stacy Anderson write about the lasting effects of racial and regional inequality. – Samuel Stein discusses the…
The Militarization Of Liberal Democracies
William Davis writes in The New York Times that we are witnessing an ominous phenomenon: A good indication of liberalism’s declining health is the rising profile of the military in…
Senior civil servant says something silly.
The crazies are behind door ‘C’ and we turn them loose at our peril. And it is certainly not the role of Canada’s senior civil servant to open that door.…
On the Come Up, young adult fiction by Angie Thomas, tops Audreys Books fiction bestsellers
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Feb. 17, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Nikiforuk – "A New Low" Even for the NEB
Canada’s top energy journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk, sees a litigation-filled future for the National Energy Board’s “reconsideration” report on Trudeau’s Trans Mountain pipeline. With its so-called “reconsideration report” on the Trans…
Vancouver reconciliation with Indigenous peoples starts with parks: An interview with Conference Keynote Rena Soutar
by Jodi Lastman | Feb 11, 2019 |ParkPeople.careprinted by permission Rena Soutar is one of the keynote speakers at Park People’s upcoming Heart of the City Conference taking place in…
I would be very upset if this upset some people in PMO and PCO
My week on Twitter : 4.27K Mentions, 470K Mention Reach, 26.2K Likes, 7.34K Retweets, 2.55K Replies. See yours with https://t.co/TQhKFs0QZY pic.twitter.com/u7GEks0RCl — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 24, 2019
Saturday Photo: Ruts, rats!
This is what our lane looked like this morning. After several snowfalls and freeze and thaw cycles, it had been reduced to two tracks of ruts about four inches thick.…
Manafort Memo Released
It’s not a memorandum. It’s not a booklet. It’s an 800 page tome.
Is Maxime Bernier a racist?
Is Maxime Bernier a racist? It’s a fair question. For months, the leader of the nascent People’s Party of Canada has been giving us every indication that he just might…
Yellow Vesters and Others, Including (Former?) Soldier Continuing to Engage In Assassination Fantasies
On Thursday, Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick appeared before the House of Commons justice committee to address questions concerning SNC-Lavalin, however he also discussed the increasingly dangerous political climate specifically…
Justin Tru – mp
Now, like good, as in docile, Canadians I suppose we should be saying, “oh shucks, I don’t like that very much but, if they’re saying it’s for the greater good,…