Backhanded Flattery
Google reports a big spike in Americans looking for information on how to relocate to Canada after Tuesday’s presidential debate. Following a debate derailed by interruptions, people speaking over each…
2020
Mr. Ford is enjoying the game.
Doug Ford has come a long way for a guy who made his mark selling labels for his father’s printing company. Today, in the midst of a pandemic, he is…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Kibasi examines how the UK Cons’ mismanagement – both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic – has resulted in disastrous public…
The cost of resistance
Julian Assange and Roger Hallam. Illustration by Mr. Fish for Scheerpost. Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction…
Covid Journal, October 1, 2020
Tax cheats everywhere trying to soak up public money.
Mewling And Puking
Like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson is a narcissist. John Crace writes: Like most narcissists, Boris Johnson is unable to conceive of other people having an independent existence. Rather, they are…
Floating Trash Bins a Great Success, May Influence Policies
We’ve been following the installation and study of Seabins in Toronto for a while now. Good news just keeps happening from these floating garbage cans! Floating trash collectors were put…
America to Trump: shut up
Jean Chretien used to say to us: “I don’t need to be in the paper every day. People don’t like it.” Yep. And my daughter and I saw the same…
Talking the First Trump-Biden Debate with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Zoe Knowles for a rare Wednesday appearance. We talked about the first Trump-Biden Presidential Debate, the dumpster fire of…
BC Hydro salaries
BC Hydro withheld its Financial Information Act Return for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 until September 30, the final day before failure to publish the report would have…
One cheer for the UCP politician who made Alberta Cheezies a household word!
Take it from an old newshound old enough to remember when newshounds were an actual thing: When someone accuses a reporter of taking their words out of context, what they…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Alert cats.
Donald Trump And the Debate From Hell
I don't know how I managed to watch the whole debate. I had a splitting headache when it was over. But at least just seconds after it did finally end,…
OUTSIDE IN THE COLD: Caregiving During Covid19
Caregiving during Covid19 has put a huge, extra strain on caregivers. It’s hard enough walking the journey of illness or disability with someone you care deeply about, but the pandemic…
Jagmeet is a lawyer, a human rights activist and the Leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party.
Canada’s NDP Jagmeet Singh The Team News More FR Jagmeet is a lawyer, a human rights activist and the Leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party. Jagmeet Singh grew up in…
Flowers
Today is Orange Shirt Day, an important day on our collective calendar here in Canada. On this day we remember and honour the First Nations, Métis and Inuit children who…
Eating off the Hill: Dumpling? Dumpling! opens on Bank Street
The pandemic has been tough on many restaurants and other retail businesses — there are more than a few closed storefronts on Ottawa’s Bank Street. I’m happy to report though…
Enough, already
I’m sorry, but I have little patience today with those who are chirping that last night’s debate was a shock because it was divisive and ugly and hateful. Anyone who…
When a Beater Finally Becomes a Junker.
When I was young, a guy’s first car tended to be a real beater. As long as it was cheap and it ran, it was okay if it was on…
Censorship, Big Tech & The Closing Down of Society
Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, and the MAGATs – Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and Twitter – are all now embedded and engaged in censorship, data mining, privacy invasion, the new global…