2019
#LavScam latest: first Butts, now Telford
…and the Clerk of the Privy Council applying raw muscle, too. I’m sure it’s all nothing. Here. Oh, and all the rich white people from Toronto didn’t like how the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matthew Desmond writes about the large number of economic and social benefits from paying workers a living wage. And Stephanie Akin reports on…
The Con Media and the Shabby End of The Fake Scandal
Lordy. What a difference a day makes. One moment the press gallery hacks in Ottawa were in a feverish state of arousal.They thought the fake scandal, the one they had…
Following The Trail Home
Letter-writers in today’s Star ask questions that demand to be answered. The first makes a point that occurred to me early on when SNC-Lavalin averred that bribery and fraud charges…
Thou Shall Not Think!
Doug Ford says the rationale behind his budget cuts is to save people money. But Rick Salutin wonders if one of the collateral benefits of the budget cuts is to…
When compromise is the problem.
Nobody should celebrate too soon about the compromise solution to paying Ontario’s doctors. After more than four years of arguments, back-stabbing and threats, nobody is particularly happy. The three-member arbitration…
SNC: The Story Behind the Story
The situation with SNC-Lavalin is disgusting, but I actually want the Liberals to emerge victorious in 2019. If they don’t, we’ll have VERY dark days for Canada under Andy Scheer’s…
National Energy Board ruling on Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion leaves everyone deep in their message boxes
Common sense would suggest the recommendation of the National Energy Board yesterday that Ottawa approve the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project despite significant risks to the environment is a small…
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century (repost)
The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era. Read the rest of this post on the original…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – Smoke
Daily Poll: Do you support a proposal to sell “clean” heroin to reduce opioid deaths?
Everything about criminalizing drugs use has been an abysmal failure. Currently ‘Safe Injection Sites’ are saving lives but the stupidty in having the addicted leaving to then score their drugs…
Preview: The Aftermath of the Yellow Vest Convoy
Excellent radio segment from @MineerBrett on the #YellowVestsCanada and #UnitedWeRoll movement’s various ties to extremism, and about holding our leaders accountable. #cdnpoli https://t.co/xY8RpVF0In — Yellow Vests Canada Exposed (@VestsCanada) February…
What do you call two cases of obstruction of justice?
Well, some mean people would call it “Trudeau’s PMO standard operating procedure.” But I’m a nice guy, so I’d never say that. So: interference with prosecutions allegations of obstruction of…
Why Do the Scumbags Always Link Back to Trump?
This time it’s Trump cronies Jeffrey Epstein and Alexander Acosta. Epstein is a multi-millionaire juvenile sex predator and Trump play pal. Acosta was the prosecuting attorney who cut Epstein the…
Decision Day in Burnaby
Over the past two weeks, all of the attention in the #cdnpoli scene has been on the SNC/PMO scandal. This story has grabbed the attention of the public and held…
It’s Friday. Will the Day’s Best be Last?
I realize some of you are nose-deep in the SNC-Lavalin business which, perhaps wrongly, is becoming a bit tedious to me. My attention is on the federal court, DC district,…
NEB approves Trans Mountain pipeline expansion with new conditions
The predictable outcome of latest NEB ruling regarding the status of the Trans Mountain Pipeline is now official. Few ever thought that this examination would result in the controversial effort…
Screw the Whales. Screw British Columbia.
The National Energy Board has predictably – yes, entirely predictably – concluded that the Trans Mountain Pipeline, a.k.a. the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline, a.k.a. the People’s Pipeline, is in the…