The Fat of the Land.
The only person pleased with Doug Ford as premier of Ontario is likely his tailor. You can take old suits in but it is obvious if you try to let…
October 2022
Plague Update: Not Much Better, Possibly Worse
My blog lately doesn’t have enough good content, and I can’t claim this is either, but it’s how I feel and apparently someone else does too: “Nobody who is trying…
Danielle Smith’s Victory Speech: Backtracking Big Time
Did anyone catch Danielle Smith’s victory speech? In it she did three things: She started to back away from her key campaign promise, the Sovereignty Act She characterized the UCP…
The natural resource curse
On average, economies of resource-rich countries do not outperform countries lacking those natural materials. According to Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard’s Kennedy School, this results…
Is the energy transition taking off—or hitting a wall?
Photo by Stephen Yang/The Solutions Project/Flickr The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) constitutes the boldest climate action so far by the American federal government. It offers tax rebates…
Thomas Sankara remains a global icon
This file photograph shows Thomas Sankara as he reviews troops in a street of Ouagadougou, during celebrations of the second anniversary of the Burkina Faso’s revolution. Photo by Daniel Lane/AP.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dhruv Khullar writes about the likelihood that a continued lack of public health measures will push the vast majority of people toward…
On Being a Bad Person
I forgot to post this from last month – my monthly posting at 3 Quarks Daily: A student asked, “How many bad actions does a good person have to do…
north island book tour and community meetings: what i’m up to at the library
Inside the Port Hardy Library September and October have been a whirlwind for me at the library. In September, we hosted a locally famous author. Yvonne Maximchuk lives on a…
An Old Cautionary Tale
If you want to know how far the Republican Party has devolved, take a look at what’s happening in the state of Georgia. Maureen Dowd writes: Once, there were limits,…
When Losers Are Choosers.
If there is one thing consistent among conservatives in Canada, it is the way they choose their leaders. There were six candidates for leader in the latest round in Alberta.…
More Great Stuff
Remember Friendly, Jerome and Rusty? Here is an hilarious thread: DYING at the Canadians in the Zoom talking about The Friendly Giant and the Americans being like “WTF there was…
Voters in Calgary-Elbow have every right to be furious with their treatment by the United Conservative Party
It didn’t take United Conservative Party Leader and premier designate Danielle Smith long to change her story about why there will be no by-election in the Calgary-Elbow riding, which has…
Latest. Fall. PEC.
Latest. Three by four. Yours, if we can figure out how to deliver it to you. pic.twitter.com/FuVBEHGeQh — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 8, 2022
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Moscrop hikes how Canada’s financial elite is engineering a recession to ensure that workers don’t see wage increases to match the price…
Today’s tonic: “Here’s why Poilievre’s attack on the Bank of Canada is absolute nonsense”
Today’s tonic: “Here’s why @PierrePoilievre’s attack on the Bank of Canada is absolute nonsense” https://thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/10/08/heres-why-poilievres-attack-on-bank-of-canada-is-rubbish.html… #PierrePoilievre #cdnpolitics
Eating up the Hill: Committee scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam
I feel at this point that, after seven years working in the halls of Parliament, I’ve sampled most of what the Hill’s catering services have to offer. But we had…
Things Do Not Bode Well
A constitutional crisis is brewing. Andrew Coyne writes: As of this week we will have not one but two provincial governments in this country formally committed to act in defiance…
The Evil Twins?
Let’s hear it for Ford and Legault. The premiers of both Ontario and Quebec sailed through elections this year with increased majorities. It seems the anger of the voters was…