W Gaffes Again
The Republican Party didn’t become disgusting when Trump came to power, it’s been terrible for over 20 years. How can you tell? W Bush just confessed to knowing the Iraq…
The Republican Party didn’t become disgusting when Trump came to power, it’s been terrible for over 20 years. How can you tell? W Bush just confessed to knowing the Iraq…
Heeeeere’s Kenney! One night after saying he was quitting, Alberta’s premier is back by unpopular demand. UCP Party Secretary Janice Nett (Photo: Linked-in). You have to admit that, by any…
I have been struck by the number of outstanding photos I am seeing of the brave soldiers fighting for Ukraine. I have been collecting these now for more than a…
Condo towers in downtown Toronto. Photo by VV Nincic/Flickr. Rental housing has been on the frontlines of Doug Ford’s war on the working class over the past four years. Shortly…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Former Minneapolis Officer Pleads Guilty in George Floyd Case #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3My3NR9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Pam Belluck reports on a new study showing that people who weren’t initially hospitalized for COVID make up over three-quarters of the…
I was late. I’d arrived in Prague just that week, in 1993, and I was still figuring out how to get around. I thought an… The post The Paternoster appeared…
A year ago I wrote a blog post, Climate Change, The Pandemic and Multi-Use Pathways (MUPs), in which I talked about the state of Ottawa’s Multi User Pathways citing The…
Green Party of Canada supporters march in downtown Toronto. Photo from Shutterstock. After months of reflection and consultations with family, friends and political allies, I’ve decided not to run in…
In the following, George Bush offers an opinion that reveals more than he perhaps intended. Was it just one of his usual gaffes, his advancing years, or a subconsciously motivated…
The Ontario Health Coalition is warning against unprecedented health care privatization and is calling for it to be a key election issue. Photo by International Museum of the Red Cross…
If you’re a conservative these days, you swim with sharks. And the sharks are cannibals. Carson Jerema writes: Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party has eaten itself. The dismal 51.4 per…
Canada’s most populous province goes to the polls in a few weeks, and climate should be at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Politicians are talking about the increased costs of…
Wither thou goest, Conservatives, in thine dark blue car at night? Sorry to get all Jack Kerouac on y’all, but that little line from On The Road kind of fits,…
Someone told me that we need to adapt to Covid faster, and get used to masks and checking air quality much faster for our own survival. They think our problem…
Ontario conservative leader Doug Ford showed up at the only all-Ontario leaders’ debate Monday—book of notes in hand. It was an event designed for sociology students. It revealed more about…
Short days ago, Jason Kenney boasted to a right-wing podcaster in Washington, D.C., that he’d never lost an election. Likely UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). That…
Sorry, I just can’t help myself. It’s truly a Nelson moment today. Jason Kenny has resigned as Alberta premier and as party leader. The Alberta Premier’s truck nuts will lie…
The other, of course, is the love of the gun that indelibly stains America and which few are talking about in the aftermath of the Buffalo massacre. H/t Theo Moudakis…
Okay first, right off the hop, let me just say that yes, like a twelve-year-old, I have been snickering at the question “who puts the ‘D’ in ‘Dystopia’”. Dystopian fiction…