How PayUp Got Fashion Companies to Payout $22 Billion
Capitalism works when companies pay for good and services, when companies make deals and don’t pay for what they ordered then things fall apart. This is exactly what happened last…
March 2021
Our "Ghastly" Future
No one, as yet, has come up with a solution to the great challenge facing those who want to settle Mars – terra forming. Mars can’t be settled until it…
Common Ground
Two lessons we should have learned from the recent Tory policy convention. One, is that politics in Canada has been liberated from fact. Two, is that no nation, Canada included,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Stretched cats.
Wow! Wow! Wow!
There is no climate change! All this news about the Arctic melting – all this news about monster forest fires all over the world – all the recorded warming of…
Ecuador’s election could be a turning point for Latin America
Renowned radical economist and Ecuadorian presidential candidate Andrés Arauz. The country’s highly anticipated runoff election is slated to take place on April 11. Photo from Twitter. Nobody likes Ecuadorian President…
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Government Delays Recommended Restrictions
#ReginaCircuitbreaker now. SK Gov should be announcing tomorrow morning that people should go home tomorrow night, and stay there. But the government in this province is rife with corruption and…
The short, unhappy reign of Alison Redford nevertheless showed a better Alberta was possible – and still is
Seven years ago today, Alison Redford resigned as premier of Alberta. Her rise and fall were swift. Unexpectedly chosen to replace the departing Progressive Conservative premier, Ed Stelmach, in the…
MP Alistair MacGregor calls for an emergency review of changes to regulations regarding frozen spot prawns
NDP MP Alistair MacGregor The progressive opposition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 23, 2021 MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR WRITES LETTER TO STANDING COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES AND OCEANS IN DEFENCE OF WEST COAST…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard offers a look at what the arrival of a third wave of the coronavirus will mean. Morgan Lowrie reports on…
A cautionary tale about Twitter
Last week, I got a notice from Twitter that I was ‘celebrating’ 12 years on the social media platform. What an accomplishment. Here are my Twitter stats after 12 years.…
A Simple Life Lesson
It is often said that with age comes wisdom. While that may be true in some instances, perhaps it is more accurate to say that with age comes context. Within…
Happy International Year of Fruits and Vegetables
The old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” is really all about having a healthy diet to stay healthy, and this is the year to increase your…
The Sunshine List
Back when Mike Harris was premier, Ontarians were introduced to The Sunshine List. Martin Regg Cohn writes: A quarter-century ago, then-premier Mike Harris dreamed up the ideological device of salary…
Talking the Latest on the Two Michaels & the Conservative Convention with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest on the case of…
Musings on My Father
That rather handsome, 17-year-old young man to the left was Watts William Chadwick. My father, although he wouldn’t become that for many more years. So serious, so formal looking. A…
In the leadership wilderness.
Canada’s major political parties have a leadership problem. We have to face facts folks: Trudeau of the not-a-party liberals is a hypocrite; O’Toole of the mainly western conservatives cannot get…
Facing stark choice on COVID-19 response, Alberta delays third phase of reopening plan and blames Ottawa for all its troubles
Cornered by an upswing in the rate of COVID-19 cases and a frightening rise in cases of the more infectious B117 variant, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government was forced yesterday…
reflections on a year of piano lessons by a dedicated (and untalented) student
The covid lockdown began on March 17, 2020. On March 20, I began piano lessons. I took piano lessons from age 6-10, before switching to violin (a mistake), then quitting.…
Meme Monday #9
There are some poll results that get funnier the longer you look at them and consider the scenarios that could play out. A recent YouGov poll carried out in the…