A Trumpified Canada?
Are we being Trumpified? A clear segment of the population has succumbed to the Trump Disease. Susan Delacourt writes: In late 2018, Steve Bannon, one of the leading strategists behind…
February 2022
Help, Help!
Excuse me, I’m a Canadian and I’m confused. All I know is that if I drive down to the closest border crossing to the United States of America and park…
Today’s news: I AM CANADIAN
#IAMCANADIAN is trending #1 on Twitter bc the overwhelming majority of Canadians care about their neighbours. We believe in science, democracy, public education & public healthcare. We separate trash from…
When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill tops Alberta independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list for week ended Feb. 6
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. The lists are compiled…
Porky pies
Porky Pies: Cockney slang for Lies. New York Times is willing to broadcast this about the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I doubt they’ve done likewise for American Presidents,…
Tune in! Me on the post-O’Toole Tories
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Climate poison could be an asset
Methane, which the BC government has supported with billions of dollars in subsidies and tax relief, is a risk to public health. Methane emissions escaping from northeast BC gas fields…
Candice Bergen’s Incredibly Humiliating Flip Flop
When Candice Bergen saw the terrorist truckers roll into Ottawa she couldn't wait to embrace them. And on her first day as interim leader of the Cons she sent out…
The Grand Experiment Begins
Why do I feel like a lab rat? Why don’t you? After two years of Covid 19, we’re about to be left to our own devices. Those of us who…
Canadians should be demanding appropriate shut down action, including bringing in the army to assist the police if needed.
Our governments hesitancy in dealing with these disgraceful so called protests that have caused great harm to the lives of many citizens affected by weeks of honking and poisoning the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Elian Peltier reports that Denmark’s message that the COVID pandemic is over has predictably given rise to a new – and particularly dangerous…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 11, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario court freezes access to GiveSendGo donations for truckers’ protest #law #legal #lawtwitter via @globeandmail – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
The CPC’s really bad morning
Need any more proof that @PierrePoilievre #CPC is irrelevant to @fordnation’s government? Ford says what the truckers are doing is illegal, and he’ll jail them if they continue to break…
The Full Doug Ford Experience in 24 Hours
Life in Ontario hasn’t been the easiest for the past four years under the Conservative government of Doug Ford. The past two years of COVID have seen some moments where…
Threats From Within and Without
There seems to be a growing acknowledgement that the trucker siege of Ottawa and various border crossings is not simply a home-grown movement to end Covid-19 mandates. Increasingly, it looks…
The American Disease In Canada
People are beginning to look into the sources of support for the occupation of Ottawa. What they’re discovering is deeply troubling. David Climenhaga writes: The evidence of American interference in…
Tories Tell Us It’s Over.
It has been a tough two years of the pandemic but interim federal conservative leader Candice Bergen tells us it is all over. Isn’t it wonderful? She says that Omicron…
Economic shock of border blockade grows; Canadian Conservatives change their tune … a little
The economic attack on Canada by the operators of trucks now blockading three major border crossings to the United States and occupying Ottawa is certainly causing more damage to the…
I’m back!
Sorry for the long hiatus — I took a temporary job in the fall and it kept me pretty busy but its over now and I’m glad to get back…
Malevolence, lies, and broken promises
As repugnant as protesting blockaders are, there is a connection between that behaviour and the lies and broken promises political operatives think unimportant.