Mr. Ford’s Assurances
If you’re wondering when the next COVID wave will hit, Bruce Arthur writes, it’s already here: That’s it, all right: the surge is coming, and it’s here. Anecdotally COVID is…
March 2022
“Teach Your Grandma!”
Prime minister Justin Trudeau went to the source of democracy, the European Parliament, to teach about democracy. He was teaching his grandmother how to suck eggs. They needed no lessons…
Today’s News: Phase This, Russia!
@NikaMelkozerova tweets this photo today of heroic Ukrainian women going to war. Today Russia announced its war of aggression has entered “phase two” – they are pretending that being forced…
"It’s like The Fugitive meets Dumb and Dumber with a bit of Triumph of the Will thrown in for good measure"
Has anyone thrown a net over racist neo-nazi knucklehead Kevin J. Johnston and dragged his sorry ass back to Ontario to start serving his 18 month sentence or are the…
"It’s like The Fugitive meets Dumb and Dumber with a bit of Triumph of the Will thrown in for good measure"
Has anyone thrown a net over racist neo-nazi knucklehead Kevin J. Johnston and dragged his sorry ass back to Ontario to start serving his 18 month sentence or are the…
Musical interlude
Gorgon City, DRAMA – You’ve Done Enough
My official list of Favourite Films of 2021
Spider Man hotties Holland, Garfield and Maguire The Oscars this Sunday will provide a bit of fun and distraction amid these otherwise trying times. I’m happy to finally share my…
Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapses
Relax, it’s not the Thwaites ice sheet. You might have to wait a few years for that one. It’s the Conger ice sheet, at 1,200 sq. kms. a good deal…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Winnie Wan Yee Tso et al. study the severity of the Omicron BA.2 COVID variant, and find that its rate of deaths and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 25, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump sues Hillary Clinton, DNC and others, alleging conspiracy to link his campaign to Russia #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/37QCyBQ – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
“You Can Take This Job and….”
It’s been quite a crazy week in Canadian politics to say the least. The confidence and supply agreement between the Liberals and NDP would normally make for big enough news…
Just Politics?
It used to be that the leaders of political parties had significant life experience before they entered politics. But, increasingly, it appears that politics is the only experience the leaders…
John Tory: four more years
As one of his guys, I’d known for a short while this was coming, but I’m still happy to see it this morning. He’s done a very good job. During…
Today’s News: Ukrainian counter-offensive is underway
The New York Times reports that Ukraine is beginning a counter-offensive Ukraine’s military is undertaking a counteroffensive that has altered the central dynamic of the fighting: The question is no…
Deals on Wheels.
There is nothing new about the deal liberal Justin Trudeau has recently made with Jagmeet Singh and his new democrats. They say they are going to cooperate for the next…
Desperate times call for desperate measures: Kenney labels the UCP’s rightward fringe ‘lunatics,’ ‘kooky people’
In a secret pep talk to his troops Tuesday, revealed yesterday by the CBC, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he’s only sticking around as leader of the United Conservative Party…
Covid Journal, Mar 24, 2022
Should the story about one unfortunate ‘protester’ who’s lost all his money to frozen accounts and fraudulent organizers be leading the daily stories with the CBC? The post Covid Journal,…
Plague Update: BA.2 Taking Over
Our society has entered the phase of the pandemic where most people are trying to pretend that everything is normal, and there’s nothing dangerous about eating in restaurants or sending…