Constitutional ramblings
Constitutions are in the news these days. More perhaps in Alberta than the rest of the country because of Premier Danielle Smith’s separatist manifesto the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United…
December 2022
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cuddly cats.
Orillia. Today’s painting.
Orillia. Today's. pic.twitter.com/roEDykFwuX — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 27, 2022
My latest: the winners in 2022
It’s that time of year! The time, that is, when columnists haul out their naughty and nice lists, and type up political winners and losers. And who am I to…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Helen Branswell examines what experts were and weren’t able to anticipate about the COVID-19 pandemic – with the voluntary panic-neglect cycle looking…
Politics of Hopelessness
I started posting other people’s twitter threads in part because twitter was (is) threatening to self-destruct, but also because there are some incredible gems that could disappear into the ether…
what i’m reading: 2022 wrap-up
The results of my 2022 reading plan were completely predictable. I created an overly long list, and that created pressure, and that ruined the point and the enjoyment of the…
The Soul Of Wit
As Hamlet character Polonius famously (and ironically) said, Brevity is the soul of wit. And I can think of few wittier than editorial cartoonists, whose illustrations, when they hit the…
The myth of Google and Facebook’s online advertising ‘monopoly’
The newspaper charge of monopoly against tech giants like Google and Facebook is laughable since they obviously have competitors, writes Marc Edge. Illustration courtesy Raconteur. Newspaper publishers complain that Google…
The Political Story of 2022.
It was not the events of February 2022 in Ottawa that were the story. It was the examination of those events at the end of the year by Ontario Justice…
Political risk? Unhappy school boards? UCP unexpectedly turns against P3s to build new schools
It’s no secret that P3s – so-called public-private partnerships – are at best a lousy public investment and at worst a disaster for citizens and taxpayers. Former Alberta premier Jason…
Ottawa backs Canadian mining giant in dispute with Panama
The Canadian-owned Cobre Panamá mine. Photo courtesy First Quantum Minerals Ltd. In Panama, a dispute has emerged of a type that is common to countries in Central and South America:…
First the U.S., now Israel
2015 was a good year. May brought the “Orange Chinook.” After 44 years of Conservative rule, the longest-serving provincial government in Canadian history, the NDP won a close-fought election. Then…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Robert Reich discusses the dangers of relying on – and indeed building a political and economic system to favour – the social…
SARS #1 and Collective Amnesia
SARS #1 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was a deadly coronavirus that hit Canada in February of 2003. It started in China in November 2002 then entered Toronto in a traveller…
PEC Parkway, Fall.
Today's. Farm on the Parkway. I miss PEC. pic.twitter.com/tYjGW0S5Tx — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 26, 2022
The Kiss Principal Works.
This might come as a surprise to prime minister Trudeau. The Keep It Simple Stupid (Kiss) principal works. I can tell you of those times when the liberal party used…
Some amazing Christmas stories
For millions of people in Canada and in the US, it has been an awful Christmas – terrible weather, monster storms, no power, cancelled flights, people stuck in transit. Dozens…
Today’s tonic: “Putting Christ back into Christian”
Today’s tonic: “Putting Christ back into Christian” by Michael Coren https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/12/24/putting-christ-back-into-christian.html #MerryChristmas, everyone!