Home buyers make property choices based on municipal zoning and Official Community Plans. Provincially mandated OCPs are “a statement of objectives and policies that guide decisions on municipal and regional…
Joe Biden has announced all American and NATO troops will be out of Afghanistan by September 11. You may commend Biden’s courage. You may condemn Biden’s fecklessness. Doesn’t make a…
I sent this message a few minutes ago to Unity Health Toronto, the alleged providers of health care in my Toronto Centre community. I think it speaks for itself. From…
Good on the Goog. Google Earth has added a feature, Timelapse, that allows users to see the effects of climate change over the past 40 years. The tool takes the…
Erin O'Toole has rarely looked so ridiculous, standing in front of a moving video green screen. So he could look like he was floating way above the earth, as he…
In the seventies and the eighties, when they were still together, the Ramones were as ubiquitous and as constant as, say, the Catholic Church or Starbucks. Wherever and whenever you…
Remember, it’s US News and World Report’s pick. But, hey, we’re Number One, we’re Number One. Somehow that doesn’t sound “Canadian.” Then again, south of the border, guess what they’re…
Celebrities love celebrities. Justin Trudeau certainly does. He considers himself one, after all. No mere mortal is our Justin: He breathes the rarefied air of the uber-rich and uber-cool at…
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center of the four major Western powers turned up some interesting if not altogether surprising results. The goal of the study was to…
#LPC ON LEAK OF PHOTO OF MALE LIBERAL MP STUPID ENOUGH TO WALK AROUND NAKED IN A PUBLIC BUILDING: We want an investigation into this outrage! ALSO ##LPC, ON INVESTIGATING…
Poor Erin O’Toole. Having to come up with a carbon cut policy when the very idea is deeply unpopular with his party faithful. So, what was Captain Bland to do?…
Re: "Conservatives' climate plan would replace Liberal carbon tax with lower levy of their own," CBC, April 15, 2021.I don't agree with the characterization of this scheme as being a…
Re: "Conservatives' climate plan would replace Liberal carbon tax with lower levy of their own," CBC, April 15, 2021.I don't agree with the characterization of this scheme as being a…
Re: “Conservatives’ climate plan would replace Liberal carbon tax with lower levy of their own,” CBC, April 15, 2021. I don’t agree with the characterization of this scheme as being…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robyn Urback criticizes the Ford PCs’ habit (matched by other conservative governments) of responding to COVID-19 with continued cycles of procrastination followed…
“Throw the scoundrels out” might be the rallying call for elections in Canada but there are too many times when we are not at all sure who the scoundrels might…
It’s only been a few weeks since one of the biggest shoes to drop in Canadian politics finally came down. On March 25th, the Supreme Court upheld the Liberals Carbon…
It is the absence of the capitalist profit motive which underlies the outstanding domestic and international response to COVID-19 by socialist Cuba. Photo by Martin Abegglen/Flickr. On March 23, 2021,…
I have written previously that the collective I.Q. of the Republican Party is a negative number. That conclusion seems to be bolstered by recent polling. Giovanni Russonello writes in The…
By recycling some old news about their joint project to promote “small modular reactors” yesterday, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick have proved dubious ideas in Canada have a half-life…
