Election Follies and Funnies #18: I am a Quebecois
Wednesday night was the French leaders debate: #Trudeau with fire in the eye, brought the heat – scalded Blanchet “I am a Quebecois..have always been a Quebecois.. proud to be…
Wednesday night was the French leaders debate: #Trudeau with fire in the eye, brought the heat – scalded Blanchet “I am a Quebecois..have always been a Quebecois.. proud to be…
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government has suddenly retreated from controversial battles with nurses and teachers that were a priority for Premier Jason Kenney and his inner circle almost since their…
Climate science demands immediate reduction of greenhouse gases. Electricity can replace fossil fuels for many uses, but how that energy is generated and distributed is vitally important. As a monopoly…
For Linda McQuaig, what the leaders say isn’t nearly as important as what they won’t say. From Canadian Dimension. For sure, there’s talk about climate change—how low our emissions must…
In the midst of a Canadian federal election, the fossil fuel industry’s impact on climate action barely figures into the discussion. Photo by Patrick Hendry/Unsplash. For years, it was assumed…
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – PressProgress offers some background on the agitators disrupting Justin Trudeau’s campaign events, while Max Fawcett points out why there’s no reason for…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: The scramble to defend against Texas’ 6-week abortion ban via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
The past few Canadian election cycles have seen plenty of discussion of the realities of tax-free savings accounts. And for the most part, their critics have been proven right: a…
Afghanistan stands in ruins and, to a large extent, that’s our doing. The Long Read. It’s a post from my first blog. July, 2010. Pretty much everything we’ve been told…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Addario asks how any politician can claim to be a leader while taking a mulligan on the COVID-19 pandemic. Amy Kaler writes…
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on the campaign trail. Photo courtesy the New Democratic Party. Among the New Democratic Party’s 115-page 2021 electoral platform, “Ready For Better,” only one-and-a-half pages are…
The next two nights will feature what could be two of the most pivotal moments in this election campaign; the French and English national leaders’ debates. The old adage says…
Erin O’Toole says he’s going to reform Canadian healthcare. But, when you get into the weeds, O’Toole’s plan sounds a lot like Kenney’s policy. Gillian Steward writes: Conservative leader Erin…
And who will throw the first stone? It seems we now have protestors throwing stones at prime minister Justin Trudeau. It is easy to blame the anti-vaxxers, the libertarian extremists…
As we wait for the Leaders Debates Wednesday and Thursday, here’s a few interesting tweets for tonight: I see the English debate is shaping up to be a tire fire…
It seems appropriate that the United Conservative Party has chosen “Alberta on the rise” as the theme of its 2021 annual general meeting in November. “Alberta is OPEN! Come join…
Keen cats.
It’s late to start a blog. But I’m trying to catch up on missing several of them. That happens to us old folks. We get tired and sort of lost.…
As we all know, Erin O'Toole started flip flopping the day after he won the Con leadership. After months of pandering to the many SoCons in his caucus, he started…
British Columbia is not just North America’s largest coal shipper, it plans to be a major LNG exporter. Destructive public policies demonstrate the hold on Canadian politicians enjoyed by private…