Undercutting the Fight Against COVID from the Back Benches
The last couple of days have not been our brightest moments in the fight against COVID-19. Ontario Premier Doug Ford finally brought in a stay-at-home order, after refusing to do…
April 2021
An Alternate Universe
Jason Kenney is in trouble. There is a significant revolt in his caucus. Don Braid reports: It’s out in the open — a full-blown revolt against Premier Jason Kenney’s COVID-19…
Life with Warren, a continuing series
My pulse/oximeter device showed that I had a blood oxygen level of 66 and a pulse rate of 09. After the paramedics left, it occurred to me that I should…
Ottawa sucks
Christ, I could run a war room staffed with pre-schoolers and we’d be doing better against the #LPC than the #CPC and the #NDP are doing on this, the biggest…
A Net-Zero Economy will Save $30 Trillion a Year
Economist argue that efficiency produces profits, which is why we see mass layoffs and (bizarrely) large payouts for executives. 20th century economists ignored a lot of opportunities for more efficient…
Elected Right-Wing Extremists Challenge Public Health Measures in Alberta
An interesting dynamic is at play in Alberta - one that I hope we don't see here in Ontario (and don't expect that we will). Despite the endless scandals and…
Elected Right-Wing Extremists Challenge Public Health Measures in Alberta
An interesting dynamic is at play in Alberta - one that I hope we don't see here in Ontario (and don't expect that we will). Despite the endless scandals and…
Elected Right-Wing Extremists Challenge Public Health Measures in Alberta
An interesting dynamic is at play in Alberta – one that I hope we don’t see here in Ontario (and don’t expect that we will). Despite the endless scandals and…
Carney: A politician in the making?
So far, the speculation about Canadian Mark Carney’s future has been left to the news media. After all, what is left to do when you have been Governor of both…
Things fall apart? 18 UCP MLAs join full-blown rebellion against Alberta’s effort to control COVID-19 third wave
Having opted Tuesday for a return to restrictions on some business and social activities to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the face of virulent mutations of the coronavirus, Premier…
Biden admin getting it right on taxes
For some time, corporations have had things their way. With globalization, which was largely designed by and for them, they were able to slip the leashes that nation states had…
We Have Very Little Time.
A story on what I am about to write on this site has appeared in two web sites – The Nation and Common Dreams. And if you’re living in a…
Green Party of Vancouver welcomes Memorandum of Understanding regarding Strathcona encampment
MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 April 2021 VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Green Party of Vancouver welcomes the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Park Board,…
Covid Journal, April 7, 2021
Should we change the term ‘lockdown’ to something a little more ‘flowery’ so that we don’t feel like prisoners in our own supposedly free world?
Far-right organizing in Alberta, on the streets and online
The confidence of far-right groups including the Soldiers of Odin and the Three Percent Militia is growing in stride with the increasingly emboldened anti-lockdown community. Photo by Nicholas Pescod/The News…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Mason writes that our leaders appear to have learned nothing as we face a third wave of COVID-19. Hasan Sheikh and Munir…
Why Canada should leave NATO
According to Canadian Dimension columnist Yves Engler, it is long past time Canada left the belligerent, militaristic, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Image courtesy NATO. By all accounts, NATO is a…
Talking Virtual Party Conventions with Rob Snow
Today I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Kate Harrison for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the about the upcoming Liberal and…
Stay away from Canada
The Americans issue a warning about us. What a clown show is the Trudeau government. What a disgrace.
When Things Get Tough
Doug Ford is about to issue a stay-at-home order. Bruce Arthur writes: But now here we are. The province’s magical thinking, its hunger for short-term economic gains, its hostility to…