What the Weasel Wants.
It might seem disorganized to some politicos but the meanness of MP Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for the conservative leadership is coming into focus. He is befriending the conservative party’s extremists.…
April 2022
Today’s News: Preparing for the next battle
In some photos from Vice, I was particularly struck by this one, where a religious icon has been set up next to a Molotov cocktail, at a checkpoint near Kyiv.…
New poll suggests Albertans’ deep disapproval of Premier Jason Kenney’s job performance is hangin’ in there
There are two things you need to remember about that new poll from Think HQ Public Affairs that suggests the number of Alberta voters who still approve of Premier Jason…
Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Scott Aitchison
Another Conservative Party leadership candidate has replied to my survey. This time it is Scott Aitchison who is the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka. As a refresher theseare the questions that…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 5, 2022
NOTE: If you send the updates to Doug Wright, please stop as he has BEEN RELEASED! If you send them to Eric King, please note that he is in transit…
Will the poppy ban sink Afghanistan’s economy?
“All compatriots are informed from the date of the issuance of this decree, poppy cultivation is absolutely prohibited in the whole country and no one can try to cultivate the…
California Dreaming or "Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun."
California’s ongoing drought portends another miserable wildfire season across the West. UC Berkley prof, Andrew Schwartz, writes that California is going from bad to worse. Schwartz has just concluded the…
Sound Familiar? The Dirty Marriage of Politics and Oil.
There’s no way out of this unless we break the fossil fuelers grip on our politicians. The fossil fuel industry and its influence over policy was the major elephant in…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 5, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa introduces bill to compel web giants to share revenue with news outlets #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3KfNPKj – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Canada and the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah. Image from the cover of Kwame Nkrumah and the Dream of African Unity by Lansiné Kaba (Diasporic Africa Press, 2017). On April 27, 1972, former Ghanaian…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how the pandemic denial of Boris Johnson, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and others is only ensuring that more people…
Doug Ford’s Assault on the Climate
GAS … cars, cars, cars. With a name like FORD, I suppose that makes sense. Very few actions being announced by Doug Ford in Ontario relate to moving in the…
AISEO Paraphraser Result
I wrote an article yesterday. It was a political article, but what I said isn’t the point here. This post reports on my use of the article to test the…
Simran Bakshi on Family Law: Guide to Meeting Your Partner’s Kids during COVID19
Introducing your child to a new partner can be challenging at the best of times. Doing so during a pandemic adds a whole other layer of complication. The recent decision…
The Big Gamble
Let me make it clear that I am not opposed to gambling. For those who can afford it, it apparently provides a measure of pleasure and a flush of excitement.…
How Smalls Won Big Against Amazon
Chris Smalls took on one of the richest people on the planet and won. Smalls worked at an Amazon warehouse where he led a walkout due to the poor working…
Fading Away
Ontario is in its sixth wave of COVID. And, Bruce Arthur writes, the province’s chief medical health officer has disappeared: Where is Dr. Kieran Moore? Ontario’s chief medical officer of…
Today’s News: "galloping riderless across the landscape"
My title tonight comes from this interview between The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols and Russia expert Thane Gustafson, talking about the unpredictability of Putin’s war. And it seemed apt to use…
A Dying Breed.
It was a picture of Canada’s first nations’ representatives with the Bishop of Rome that got me thinking. Where are the anachronisms in this picture? And who are the people…
After six years of exemplary service as Alberta Health Services CEO, Kenney Government sacks Verna Yiu
Verna Yiu led Alberta Health Services through the darkest hours of the pandemic with grace and a steady hand. The 20-year-plus veteran of public health care administration is the kind…