All Kinds Of Lessons
Commentators are beginning to turn their attention to Donald Trump’s legacy. Simon Tidall’s column in The Guardian is a good place to start. He writes: How much damage did Donald…
December 2020
Use the war room to educate Albertans?
In December 2019, the Alberta government launched the Canadian Energy Centre. The new UCP government had fulfilled its election promise of an energy “war room” that would “fight fake news…
Ten Climate Change Items That Need Wider Reporting
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A vaccine is here, hooray! But now let’s actually take a good hard look at climate change mitigation. This is from a…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Kyle Hanniman and Trevor Tombe examine the relative fiscal positions of Canada’s federal and provincial governments – concluding that while there isn’t…
“We are not prepared” – Globe investigation shows Trudeau government gutted our pandemic preparedness
This investigation by the Globe‘s Grant Robertson is shocking. It shows that Canada’s federal government consciously destroyed our pandemic-alert system. Do they have blood on their hands? Read these excerpts,…
Talking Party Election Narratives & Ontario’s COVID Lockdown with Rob Snow
Wednesday I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Andrew Brander for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the narrative that each party will…
Saturday Photo: Christmas in the Cemetery, and Health Care
We went for a walk with the gang yesterday, doing the right thing for this Covid-19 Christmas. No hugs, no inside gatherings, but at least we were together for a…
The Year Ahead
This is the time of year predictions proliferate, and Tony Burman has a few of his own. He writes: This coming year will be better in many respects than the…
Musical interlude
Gordi – Extraordinary Life
The $9 Million Dollar Mayor
More than eight million of your dollars have been spent to date on the Saunderson Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (SVJI), and it may top $9 million if you add in the…
Unforeseen Custody Issues: Who Could Have Predicted THIS?
I’m generally a worrier. If my kids don’t text back after a few minutes, all sorts of images bombard my brain. Sometimes they don’t text back for hours, and it…
Contextualizing Racism
During the 2019 Alberta Election, a number of UCP candidates were tagged by opposition as having track records of peddling hate. Several of these candidates ended up stepping aside during…
My Covid Christmas 2020
If everything had gone according to plan, or at least according to plan B, I might have been spending Christmas with my parents not far from Loch Ness in the…
Justin Trudeau’s Amazing 2020 Journey
Justin Trudeau was apparently looking forward to a quieter 2020 than he had experienced the year before. But the Year from Hell forced him to govern like he never had…
Happy Holidays
Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a healthy new year.
Falsehoods and misinformation, government specialties
Never has the government of British Columbia stood behind a larger megaproject than the Site C hydropower project. Never have more falsehoods been used to justify BC Hydro operations and…
A Masterful Takedown
No one does it better than Chris Cuomo. Even if you only watch a couple of minutes of the above video, you will see that he has taken the true,…
Navigating the Minefield of Short-Termism
Its disappearance went largely unnoticed. There was no post mortem, no eulogy, no deep sighs for what had been lost. Posterity slipped from our consciousness as we ushered in the…