KINSELLACAST 175: Guns, Grits and Gaffes – with Lilley, Mraz, Kheiriddin
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September 2021
labour day 2021: demand more. work less.
Lying Flat We’re told there is a labour shortage. Businesses can’t find workers. No one wants to work. Why the shortage exists and what should be done about it are…
Their Future is Non-Negotiable.
Generation Z. They’re said to number 68 million in the United States alone. Most of them are still too young to vote yet they’re as political as any earlier “gen.”…
Justin Made His Bed. Let Him Lie in It.
“A vote for the NDP is a vote for Erin O’Toole.” It’s the standard Liberal refrain. If you don’t vote Liberal, we’ll shoot this dog. A vote for the NDP…
Raven – Whistler, BC
Raven – Whistler, BC
Musings on Swearing and Vulgar Language
(Warning: I swear in this post… frequently. You can’t write about swearing without actually swearing a bit. Or a lot. Easily offended folks might want to look elsewhere.) I find…
Conservatives and Guns
The Conservatives were going to lift the Liberal ban on assault rifles. But now they’ve changed their minds. John Ibbitson writes: In a week that shook up the federal election…
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – #Elxn44 Week Three
The latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Geoff Turner, Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair is now out. In this episode…
My latest: Tories shoot themselves in the foot. Again.
Bang bang. Let’s get this out of the way because it’s apparently necessary. I’m a gun owner. I own guns. Took the course, passed, got a gun. Now own guns,…
Promises, Promises.
It was while plowing through the major parties’ promises in this election that I realized it was a waste of time. It is not just the wasted promises of those…
Election Follies and Funnies #15: Flip Flop Man
Editing note: I had to delete a couple of the earlier Follies and Funnies posts because something in them was messing up my blog formatting and I am not sufficiently…
Kenney’s $100 Solution
At the end of May Jason Kenney unveiled an aggressive reopening plan that would lead to the best Alberta summer ever and on July 1 he lifted all but a…
50,000 followers can’t be wrong. (Well, actually, they can.)
At some point over this here Labor Day weekend, as I battled an army of gun nuts, I acquired 50,000 followers on the Twitter machine. So, to those of you…
Money for nothing…
IPPs). The utility paid $1,403,000,000 for that power, an average of $95,899 per gigawatt. Meanwhile, BC Hydro sold electricity on trade markets. It realized $42,520 per gigawatt on those sales,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Economist charts how face mask use helps to slow the spread of COVID generally. And Supriya Dwivedi writes that the Conservative approach…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jim Stanford writes that the direction of our rebuilding from and after the COVID pandemic is one of the core issues at…
On Politics and Qualifications
Back in July, I wrote an extensive piece advocating for all but removing the party system from our parliament. In other discussions the topic of qualifications and expertise came up…
Looney Candidates
Every election has its share of looney candidates. One such candidate is Cheryl Gallant for the Conservatives. Robin Sears writes: Conservative candidate Cheryl Gallant, is back. This year she launched…
NEW: Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Periodical, Special Commemorative Issue, Black August 2021
The Rebuild Collective has a new issue of their newspaper out. You can read it online on their website here! The Rebuild Collective is a New Afrikan Independence Movement Formation…
30-second spot. Female narrator. Quiet soundtrack. Grainy images of bodies being wheeled away.
Here’s the script. “This is the Ruger Mini. It was used to murder 14 women in Montréal. It was used to murder 22 people in Nova Scotia. 36 Canadians. Justin…