Politics, Ya Gotta Love The Horgan-Weaver Bromance!
Posted by Dara Quast on Friday, October 16, 2020 The post Politics, Ya Gotta Love The Horgan-Weaver Bromance! first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
2020
What Now?
When I spotted the BBC headline, “The grim fate that could be worse than extinction,” I instinctively recoiled and thought, “fuck, what now?” I don’t know about you but with…
Friday #skvotes Links
The latest news and notes from Saskatchewan’s 2020 election campaign. – Nicholas Frew reports that a majority of Saskatchewan’s voters are willing to fund a reduction in class sizes. And…
The Temptation to be Tory.
It appears that the leopard is still unable to change his spots. At least conservatives such as Ontario’s Doug Ford and Alberta’s Jason Kenney fail to stray long from their…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Giles reports that even the IMF is warning governments not to engage in avoidable austerity. And Richard Kozul-Wright and Nelson Barbosa write…
The electric car comes to Oakville
In late September, Ford reached a deal with Unifor to build electric vehicles at the Oakville assembly plant. The three-year deal includes investing $1.95 billion in two Ontario facilities. Photo…
Filibusted Tactics
I’ve had the good fortune in my live of getting to learn many great lessons about politics and how to go about it. My near decade on Parliament Hill taught…
Eyes On The Prize
COVID exposed the inequalities in our system. Now it is exacerbating them. Frances Ryan writes in The Guardian: There are times in which it feels as if we are running…
Trudeau isn’t as popular as he used to be…
… but it’s difficult to find a single word, here, with which to disagree. It’s one of the reasons why I think he is going to be reelected: the pandemic…
Throwing health care into chaos isn’t easy, but the UCP’s political staffers are willing to sacrifice to do it
Throwing Alberta’s health care system into chaos isn’t easy. It takes hard work and sacrifice. But thanks to the United Conservative Party’s front-line fighters in the war against fair and…
Mr Not So Nice Guy Erin O’Toole And His Monstrous Cons
In my last post I wondered how long Erin O'Toole would be able to fool Canadians into believing that he was a really nice guy. And not the two-faced leader…
Nixon’s Racist War On Drugs
Sometimes a lie is forgotten. Sometimes it spirals out of control and turns into an international black market. It's been 4 years since the racist War on Drugs (TM) was…
Ricky Tollikko and the Woke Onez Rebellion Try Turning the Dial to 11
Before getting into the meat of the article, we would like to offer this as a preamble: "This Is Spinal Tap" might be, at least in this writer's opinion, the…
Ricky Tollikko and the Woke Onez Rebellion Try Turning the Dial to 11
Before getting into the meat of the article, we would like to offer this as a preamble: "This Is Spinal Tap" might be, at least in this writer's opinion, the…
Ricky Tollikko and the Woke Onez Rebellion Try Turning the Dial to 11
Before getting into the meat of the article, we would like to offer this as a preamble: “This Is Spinal Tap” might be, at least in this writer’s opinion, the…
Oct. 13: Enjoying the life I have left.
When I begam this blog, my purpose was not to express my opinions. It was, in the face of a largely dishonest news media, to expose readers to a larger…
Warpaint. Never, Ever Thought I’d See This
HMCS Regina is getting spruced up for the annual RimPac naval exercises. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, Regina will be sporting “dazzle” pattern camouflage paint…
This Is a Story About a Real Dick. Dick is a Lawyer.
CBC has a “sign of the times” story about a Thai restaurant in Windsor, Ontario that refused service to a customer who would not wear a face mask. After refusing…
Rock Bottom
I was happy in 2015 when the NDP won the election. Being 31 years old it was the first time in my entire lifetime I had seen a different government…