Utter Disrespect for Local Media and Citizens
Recently, CollingwoodToday ran a six-part series asking all members of council to express — without editing or Berman’s censorship “fact-checking” — their thoughts on what they had done on council,…
2021
Sleeping With An Elephant
Donald Trump has left the White House. But that doesn’t mean that the relationship between the United States and Canada is all sweetness and light. Campbell Clark writes: The supposed…
How the Canadian military is fueling the climate crisis
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces during an operation in Afghanistan. The photo has been digitally altered for operational security reasons. Photo courtesy the Canadian Armed Forces website. The following…
Mark Bourrie, Andre Marin, Maxime Bernier and Wikipedia
My Wikipedia page has had one editor above all – Mark Bourrie, the lawyer who led Maxime Bernier to a big loss this week. So, here at paragraphs 94 to…
Doug’s Drive to Damnation.
Like highways to hell, they are not roads that Ontario premier Doug Ford should take. Doug Ford lacks the political smarts, the political acceptance or a party eager to take…
Brian Jean, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of the Alberta conservative movement, takes up residence in Jason Kenney’s head
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney insists his former leadership rival Brian Jean’s planned palace coup to snatch away the crown of the United Conservative Party isn’t about to distract him from…
Are the Con Oil Pimps Trying To Destroy Canada?
I have never had much respect for Scott Moe, the brutish slack jawed Premier of Saskatchewan. I have always considered him more of an American politician than a Canadian one,…
Should Leftists and Progressives trust Pfizer and Big Pharma?
The Left has always had a strong tradition of emphasizing the importance of science and empirical understanding of the world. Remember that foundational socialists such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx,…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Helen Ward et al. discuss the work that needs to be done to respond to long COVID on a global scale, while…
Are you a Nikiforuk fan? Check this out.
Andrew Nikiforuk will be giving an address, “Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions,” at the University of Victoria on Wednesday, November 17th, from 2 to 3:15 p.m.,…
A Picture to Sum Up COP 26
From The Guardian. There, don’t you feel better? The Guardian spoke with six negotiators working on the final statement. Their enthusiasm seems a bit underwhelming. #1 The world needs a…
The neglected toll of violence against health care workers
Photo courtesy Gustoimages/Science Photo Library. The following is an excerpt from Code White: Sounding the Alarm on Violence against Health Care Workers by Margaret M. Keith and James T. Brophy,…
I Remember. Too Well.
Since it’s Remembrance Day, here’s a photo of my dad – sans a few parts, well stitched together, taken outside an army hospital in England. He’s chomping on a cigar,…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 11, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: U.S. Capitol rioter gets 41 months in prison, longest sentence imposed so far via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
A Canadian Clown Show
My previous post dealt with the racism-tinged dismissal of a high school principal in Texas. Today’s deals with malfeasance of another kind: the unjust treatment of a co-op student who…
Remembrance: In quiet Cobble Hill, cenotaph honours daughter who fell in First World War
Author of the article: By Nic Hume Publishing date: Nov 10, 2021 • 1 day ago • 4 minute read • Join the conversation Dorothy P. Twist was a nursing…
A Few Thoughts On The Rittenhouse Trial
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is a farce. A travesty, and potentially will end up being one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in history (and not just US history,…
A Good Question
On the COVID file, Doug Ford’s record has been spotty. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The recurring COVID-19 waves won’t subside anytime soon. But a rising tide of infections in Ontario…
Cities of the Future Act as Sponges
When it rains cities should hold all the water. In the 20th century that idea would have been laughed out of the room; today, we know better. Urban water management…
CP story on Bernier v. Kinsella et al.: “Maxime Bernier has lost”
Key bits below. Full story, by my former Herald colleague Joan Bryden, here. “OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier has lost his defamation fight against a columnist who repeatedly portrayed the People’s…