Not This Time
Last time around, Justin Trudeau ran against Doug Ford. That won’t happen in this election. Robert Benzie writes: Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives will be keeping…
2021
Canada’s failure in Afghanistan
A Chinook transport helicopter carrying Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper lands near Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 30, 2011. Photo by Yiorgos Karahalis. Content warning: This article contains violence that some readers…
How To Make North American Homes Climate Friendly
Everyone is well aware that low density, sprawling, and energy inefficient is bad for the planet. Years of mindless development have left us with homes which are not well built…
Talking the Collapse of Afghanistan with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the collapse of Afghanistan, the remarks by…
How Canada failed its farmers and agri-producers
Farmland in Saskatchewan. Photo by Joel Penner/Flickr. Robert Jeffery—my paternal grandfather—lives on rural farmland in Bruce Mines, a small community in northeastern Ontario. His home, a quaint abode our family…
Goodbye Blogger
For decades I have used the google search engine and posted my thoughts in google blogger but in recent days everything on that platform seems to have gone tilt. Firstly…
Goodbye Blogger
For decades I have used the google search engine and posted my thoughts in google blogger but in recent days everything on that platform seems to have gone tilt. Firstly…
The question of leadership.
It sometimes happens that the Toronto Star gets something right. On August 13, the largest newspaper in Canada used its front page for an editorial asking: ‘Show us leadership.’ If…
Election Funnies and Follies #1
Every day or two for the next month, I’m going to try to do a “funnies and follies round-up” of the election news and tweets that I find most interesting…
Bad political memories – sometimes they’re an asset, sometimes not so much
A lousy memory might be a bad sign if you can’t remember what you went downstairs to fetch, or where you left your glasses, but sometimes in politics it can…
August 16 – Bloody Liars and Murderers
The following article is short. It is my reaction to our disgusting reporting on the war. American news services and Canadian ones reporting on Afghanistan are carrying messages that from…
Alberta’s debt to the Maldives
As humanity continues to heat the planet, there are winners and losers. Let me rephrase that. Ultimately nobody wins; in the long term if global warming isn’t halted it will…
Fairy Creek Report by Dorothy Field
Fairy Creek Report, August 13, 2021 I spent the day yesterday, August13, driving to Fairy Creek on the Elders for Ancient Forests bus. The group is organized around principles of…
How Erin O’Toole Fell Into Justin Trudeau’s Trap
It was such a beautiful day, a picture perfect postcard of my beautiful Canada, on the fine line between summer and fall. So all I wanted to do was rush…
Talking the First Day of #Elxn44 on CTV News Channel
Today I joined CTV News Channel with Marcia MacMillan along with Kate Harrison and Marcel Wieder. We talked about the start of the Federal Election, how the parties faired on…
A New Dad’s Lament
Aaron Regunburg captured the angst of bringing a child into the Anthropocene Epoch. I feel lucky, in a guilty way, that my two children have not given me grandkids. My…
Biden had no other choice
Excellent updates from Josh Marshall about Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal: The more I see the more I’m convinced this was the right decision – both what I see on the ground…
Taliban Learned from Past Mistakes
They had 20 years to figure it out – and they did. The Taliban Mk. 2 were not going to repeat their past mistakes. They were not going to invite…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Guy Quenneville discusses takeaways from the latest COVID town hall for physicians – including how Saskatchewan health care workers are burning out even…
The Frenzy For ‘Freedumb’
I suspect the majority feel the same as this letter-writer: I am disappointed with my fellow Canadians who choose not to get vaccinated, for various personal reasons each have expressed.…