Election Follies and Funnies #25: Mulroney’s turn
Forget about a statistical tie. @VoiceOfFranky has an honest-to-god actual tie – to one decimal point! 31.8% each for the #LPC and the #CPC ! #elxn44 pic.twitter.com/aPP6hWumW0 — David Akin…
2021
Kenney, declaring public health emergency, to Alberta: ‘I apologize … I don’t apologize!’
The richest, most self-righteous province in Confederation has been forced to go cap in hand to other provinces to beg for beds in which to park our sick vaccine refuseniks…
Plague Update: Oh No, Not Again
The election in Canada is on Monday, and the Conservatives are annoyed that HarperCon Kenney is trying to stop his province’s healthcare system from burning down completely by then. A…
Our Ugly World
The U.S. went to war in 1941 because it was determined to conquer the whole world. That’s why it went to war with Korea. It was to be the entree…
This abominable scam of a climate election
Concern is skin deep: all of the parties climate platform policies are grossly insufficient, the climate villains are still in firm control, and any informed outsider would see a nation…
To Revive Main Streets Let’s Make them People Focussed Instead of Business Focussed
Since the proliferation of big box stores and malls small cities have been struggling to keep their downtowns engaging and profitable for businesses. What if we rethought our downtowns to…
42: win and wear the ultimate answer!
The ultimate answer in sterling silver form: 42 I thought this would be a cool thing for fans of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy… Continue Reading42: win and wear…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jill Filipovic discusses how the mounting toll in human lives and health from COVID should leave no room for controversy about modest responses…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Christo Aivalis discusses Jagmeet Singh’s much-needed willingness to take on the power of the rich to fight for a country that works…
All The Lonely People: Where Do They All Come From?
Before the advent of our current troubles, the Toronto Star’s Bruce Arthur won widespread acclaim for his sports reporting. Since the arrival of the pandemic, however, his writing has achieved…
Money Talks. Will Big Oil and Its Political Handmaidens Listen?
Ten trillion dollars is a tidy amount of money. We may soon see whether that kind of cash is enough to tame the fossil fuelers and their political enablers. Investors…
Same Old, Same Old?
Don Ivison is calling the election for the Trudeau Liberals. He figures we’ll be back where we were before the writ was dropped. O’Toole dropped the ball on the climate…
New Lies
The Republicans are trading in new lies. Dana Milbank writes: On Tuesday morning, one of the most senior and important Republican senators used one of the most prominent settings in…
JWR couldn’t be part of it. You can’t vote for it.
“Aga Khan. India. Vice-Adm, Norman. SNC-Lavalin. Blackface. WE. Payette. General Vance. There are patterns reflected in all of these…This way of governing was not my way of governing and I…
Moving beyond the centrist consensus in Election 44
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole pose with TVA moderator Pierre Bruneau before the French language election…
The Perfidy of Quebec.
This argument is not going away quietly into the night. Premier Legault of Quebec said the other day that the question of Quebec’s Bill 21 and 96 did not belong…
Election Follies and Funnies #24: Chretien is back!
Chrétien talks about importance of vaccines. Says he’s been vaccinated with various shots for 86 years. On Erin O’Toole- “He is doing something I cannot do – he is speaking…
Jason Kenney’s rotten record of COVID chaos has finally become an issue in the federal election
So it’s come to this: Jason Kenney has become an issue in the federal election. All that effort keeping his head down for all but a couple of days over…
Canada’s Future?
It’s late. And I’m tired. And I’m disgusted. I’m disgusted with a hell of a lot of Canadians. I’m disgusted with a hell of a lot of Canadians as they…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Embedded cats.