Today’s News: 100 days
It has now been 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. The yellow markings on this map from Australian Strategic Policy Institute researcher Nathan Ruser show how successful Ukraine has been…
2022
The Shameful Second Coming of Doug Ford
As I strolled past the Harbourfront marina yesterday on my way to vote, I knew that it was going to be a big night for Doug Ford. For while there…
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Moe Problem
What the dickens is wrong with Saskatchewan’s prominent political Moe family? It was less than 3 months ago that his truck was impounded in British Columbia where his son drove…
Musical interlude
The War On Drugs – Living Proof
Just 1,460 More Days ‘Til We Vote Him Out!
They called the election before all the polling places were closed because Ford had that much of a lead. My first thought this morning: “Realizing what a bubble I’m in…
Nikiforuk and the Death Cult.
It had to be said. We’re all going through a rough spell – soaring fuel and food costs, a mutating virus, a new and less stable Cold War, a steadily…
Install Perlbrew in Ubuntu Image in Docker Desktop
Documenting this because the instructions on the Perlbrew website completely failed for me. I got various errors, including an error 5888 when I tried to run perlbrew. I started with…
Ottawa should reject the Murdoch plan
Rupert Murdoch’s victory in Australia has been seized on by publishers in other countries, including Canada, who are hoping to use it to persuade their governments to enact similar legislation…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Small writes about the hope that one of the responses to COVID-19 will be a shift toward inhaled vaccines. But for those…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Now that Quebec’s new language law has been adopted, many wonder how it will be enforced #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3Mecqzp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Brittlestar: People Are Stupid
No, it’s not the result of yesterday’s provincial election that prompted this title, although in light of it, Brittlestar’s latest does seem apt. BTW, only 43% managed to rouse themselves…
My latest: the morning after Doug Ford’s big night
Random Ontario election observations, the morning after: Centrism matters: Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford stuck resolutely to the political middle, which — in Canada, at least — is where all…
Something’s Out Of Joint
Ontarians have given Doug Ford four more years. He and his party won 83 seats in the province’s 124-seat legislature. I’m not surprised. The polls predicted this outcome at the…
Ontario, I Am Ashamed and Embarrassed
This morning, Ontario, I am ashamed of you. Ontario, you had an opportunity to do the right thing, and chose — deliberately chose — not to. I am ashamed and…
Ontario Election 2022: Low Turnout, High Numbers
Ontario: leaders wanted. Apply via the same old-school arcane process. The post Ontario Election 2022: Low Turnout, High Numbers first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Campaigns Gone By.
This has been both the shortest and seemingly the longest campaign in Ontario history. I felt uninvolved. I was left out. The days of bounding up steps to knock on…
Today’s News: Ford takes it
Ontario voters sent a message tonight, and the message was: Meh! We’re good. On a side note.. once I saw at 5 pm that voter turnout was only 35%.. i…
#ONpoli election night in tweets
Del Duca losing in his own riding. Again. #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 3, 2022 Holy crap @CTVNews declares PCs won. That’s five minutes sooner than I predicted. #onpoli…
Dear U.S.A. Can we talk about guns? Nicely?
Dear America: Hello, neighbour. Canada here. You can tell it’s us by the fact that I added that superfluous ‘u’ in neighbour. Sorry for the levity. But in such grim…
What do you do about a problem like Shane Getson, the UCP MLA whose Facebook post appeared to call for the PM to be lynched?
With apologies to the Sound of Music, what do you do with a problem like Shane Getson? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo: Justin Trudeau/Flickr). More specifically, what should the Alberta…