Vote Kinney for Senator
Now that the federal election is out of the way, I turn my attention to the upcoming Calgary municipal election. Both the mayor and the councillor for my ward have…
September 2021
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen takes Alberta’s shame to the international stage by pointing out how the UCP’s “best summer ever” has given rise to…
This week’s Sparky: the basic dictatorship. Basically.
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My COVID-19 quarantine diary
My trip to the Northwest was originally planned for July 2020. I bought a Mexico City to Vancouver ticket from Aeromexico in February 2020, which was before the pandemic started.…
KINSELLACAST 178: Elections, hostages with Pierson, Lilley, Mraz – plus space music
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Bill Davis’s anti-worker legacy
Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis replies to students from Carleton University at the Skyline Hotel, March 17, 1981. Photo by Russell Mant/Ottawa Citizen. The death of former Ontario Premier…
Pardon My Obsession
If you have grown weary of my regular posts about the willful ignorance and stupidity of the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, please skip the following. A Texas bar and grill does…
Lessons From The Election
Robin Sears writes that there are three lessons we should take from the Federal election: Lesson one: We need a major overhaul of Elections Canada’s recruitment, training and election readiness.…
Over-Analyzing the Campaign.
We are in that period when all the pundits take credit for how smart they were during the election campaign. Frankly, if most of them would fall on their swords,…
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You returns to top of Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. The lists are compiled…
The Decarie Report 2021-09-25 22:43:00
As I watched the election results, I gave up hope. Where were Canadian brains? Just months ago, Trudeau was on the BC border, assuring American politicans and people that Canada…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Karl Nerenberg notes that taxes on the wealthy represent an excellent starting point in ensuring that it’s possible to pass progressive policy in…
The Two Michaels and the Toxic Trudeau Haters
For years their images haunted us, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Michaels, trapped in Chinese prisons. Held hostage for more than 1,000 days by the Chinese government in…
Saturday Photo: Summer’s End But the Weather Continues Warm, Maybe Too Warm
Like kids in a class portrait at the end of the school year, these sunflowers stood tall a week ago when I walked by them, enjoying the amazing summer-like weather.…
The Problem with Carbon Removal
This is Orca, the world’s largest carbon removal plant to date. It’s expected to draw 4,000 tons of airborne CO2 per year. It has two drawbacks. It’s expensive to build…
Not So Special After All
Given their passionate intensity, anti-vaxxers must be finding this week’s ruling by the Ontario Human Rights Commission deeply galling. The long and short of it: they are not so special.…
The Madness Contagion is Spreading Among Us
It took hold in the United States as the “Sovereign Citizen” or “Freeman on the Land” cult and now it’s spreading in Canada, making common cause with our anti-vaxx/anti-mask movement.…
O’Toole’s Future
The rumblings against Erin O’Toole began on the day after he failed to become prime minister. But, Chantal Hebert writes, the Conservatives should keep O’Toole as their leader: It is…
The NDP Fail Us.
There were a few complaints the other day when I mentioned that the new democratic party had its hey-day back in the 1960s and 70s. What I did not explain…
It’s good the Two Michaels are on their way home – but let’s not forget they weren’t the only hostages
Surely most Canadians rejoiced last night when they learned the Two Michaels were on their way home from their long imprisonment in China. It’s equally certain that some very well-placed…