Doug Ford and Ontario’s EV Car Potential
Ontario will never have a robust EV market so long as Doug Ford thinks a mine and more highways will help him. The post Doug Ford and Ontario’s EV Car…
2021
Remember
Remembering my Dad at Remembrance Day: here he is, age 20, at officer cadet training in Summer of 1952. Front row centre. Went on to join the RCAC but not…
A Legacy Lost.
It makes you a bit sad. What the genius of Ted Rogers built is being mishandled by his son. From the catbird seat on Toronto’s ancient Jarvis Street, you can…
11.11 readers’ advisory meets "at your library" in the north island eagle
At Your Library by Laura Kaminker Celebrate and commemorate Remembrance Day with a good book or three Readers have told me they enjoy the themed booklists I’ve shared. Remembrance Day…
In Flanders Fields? It’s time to encourage another generation of school kids to read some better poems from the Great War
A civilization that forgets its poetry is barely worthy of the name. Like fiction and unlike non-fiction, poetry is how a culture’s most profound truths are told. Unlike fiction, poetry…
Who am I?
I’ve been writing for this site for quite a while now. But readers still don’t know who I am or what qualifications I have to write a column. so…. I…
Erin O’Toole and the Shadow Cabinet From Hell
Ever since he returned from the place where he had been hiding, Erin O'Toole has looked a lot like a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And who…
Bernier v. Kinsella et al.: WE WON!
Link to the judgment here! The post Bernier v. Kinsella et al.: WE WON! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Ward 4 judicial recount request filed
Last week I filed an application for a judicial recount of the recent election for councillor in Ward 4 and today we’ve heard the application has been received. The way…
Never Let Treason Go Unpunished. You’ll Regret It Later.
America is living with the consequences of a failure that dates back to 1865, when Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, sat down across from Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, to…
No, unions aren’t job killers
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks as he participates in the PC Party leadership debate in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Photo courtesy City News. On Monday, Matthew Lau, a…
Tom Friedman and the Great Climate Paradox
The New York Times columnist, Tom Friedman, has attended most of the climate summits over the past quarter century, Glasgow included. The big change he found this year is younger…
Afghanistan. There Was Never Anything to Save.
Our 20 year fool’s errand. The country’s last finance minister before the Taliban return has given an interview to BBC. Khalid Payenda says his country fell, not to the Taliban,…
The Framework Convention Fails. Not Enough Nails.
The Glasgow climate summit, COP 26, or, as Prince Charles called it, our “Last Chance Saloon,” has lived up to none of the hype. There’ll be no Kumbaya moment. If…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 10, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Analysis: Trump suffers blow in January 6 case but keeps trying to outrun the clock ahead of 2022 midterms via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
My latest: punk rock and the plague!
Pandemics aren’t a ton of fun. The current one has caused economic chaos, political instability and no shortage of anxiety, planet-wide. For musicians and for those who promote live music,…
I’m a child, yes, but seriously
Because I’m an adolescent, I love this @CBCNews story because the guy in the picture looks like he’s so stoned he doesn’t know he’s got a string of nastiness dripping…
Then They Came For The Educators
As a longtime educator, I have always believed that whatever progress we can make as a species resides within the domain of knowledge and its concomitant, critical thinking. When both…
This is why we can’t have even minimally acceptable things
Here we go again. And somehow, the latest round of hysteria includes the Cons learning nothing from the failure of their attacks on coalitions or other forms of inter-party cooperation…