Now?
Bob Hepburn believes that now is the time for Justin Trudeau to call an election: In the last few days, Trudeau has been busy. He announced his choice of Mary…
2021
Building Better Bolder.
Help is here. My old friend, former federal transport minister David Collenette, has written a knowledgeable commentary on the VIA Rail plan for a ‘high-frequency’ passenger service in the Toronto,…
Annamie Paul is not succeeding at the task of leading the Green Party
I have to be honest when Annamie Paul was first elected to be leader of the Green Party of Canada, I was intrigued. I was intrigued for a number of…
July 10: Canadians – get used to singing God Bless America
Thinking of going to Las Vegas? Bad idea. Las Vegas is under a brutal sun of 40 degrees and over as high (so far) as 45. And don’t even think…
Follow The Fifth Columnist on Twitter Over The Summer
For the past two years I have kept to my goal of posting at least once a month but it seems this summer outdoors activities, mostly biking, have taken me…
New Books in Stock at LeftWingBooks.net
Autonomia: Post-Political Politics The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem Archeology of Violence The Femicide Machine A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey…
Afghanistan Comes Full Circle
We had neither the will nor the means to win. Even if we did, we had no plan to win. Just what in hell were we doing in Afghanistan? What…
Is Bigger Better? In TVs, Maybe Not.
I read on several websites that for a distance of about 3.6 m (12 ft) from the screen to the viewer, the optimum size of a television should be 85…
The smear campaign at the centre of the Green Party debacle
Green Party leader Annamie Paul speaks with students at a press conference in late March. Photo from Facebook. Last week, Annamie Paul added a new chapter to her deception in…
Where’s the transparency with an inactive police body camera?
Still image from a video showing Toronto Police officers pulling their firearms on rapper Twy Korchinksi Beals after he had finished shooting a music video. Screenshots via Twy Korchinksi Beals/Instagram.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the debilitating lasting effects of long COVID. John Pavlovitz tells the story of his family’s experience suffering from COVID-19…
Saturday Photo: Wayward Grass….
The view at the Technoparc last Sunday: grasses and clouds and birds. There was a time that we did a lo of bird-watching, but kids and dogs got in the…
I Got Into It With a Republican Yesterday.
I was recently drawn into an online, Republican v. Democrat pissing contest. It began when this fellow claimed that America’s ills – the debt, the loss of its manufacturing base,…
America’s Roaster
If there’ll be any pattern emerging from the 2020s, it’ll probably be one of record heating. It’s happening world wide in the more equatorial latitudes. Some places are already registering…
Election fever
The Liberal government gives every signal that they intend to call an election in late summer or early autumn with the goal of converting their minority into a majority. One…
Election fever
The Liberal government gives every signal that they intend to call an election in late summer or early autumn with the goal of converting their minority into a majority. One…
Election fever
The Liberal government gives every signal that they intend to call an election in late summer or early autumn with the goal of converting their minority into a majority. One…
An Examination Of Conscience
When I was a young lad on the receiving end of a Catholic education, we had two regularly-recurring rituals. Once a month we would be led over to the parish…
Haiti
Forty-two years ago, my wife and I caught a flight from Montreal to Port au Prince. We went there not as tourists but as observers. Jean Claude Duvalier — “Baby…
Greens have Gotta Grow-up.
The greens need to knock off the foolishness. And it is stupid. For the news media to be so malicious as to encourage non-elected people to report on inner-circle doings…