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…
2022
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…
There will be only one by-election in Alberta before 2023, and it won’t be where it’s needed: Danielle Smith
Let us get this straight: Apparently will be only one by-election in Alberta before the next general election. Brooks-Medicine Hat MLA Michaela Frey (Photo: Facebook/.Michaela Frey). That election will take…
Musical interlude
The Knocks feat. X Ambassadors – Comfortable
Pierre Poilievre and the War on Women
I've always thought there was something weird about the way Pierre Poilievre goes after Justin Trudeau.I wondered what made him so angry all the time, and I began to believe…
Pierre Poilievre and the War on Women
I've always thought there was something weird about the way Pierre Poilievre goes after Justin Trudeau.I wondered what made him so angry all the time, and I began to believe…
Pierre Poilievre and the War on Women
I've always thought there was something weird about the way Pierre Poilievre goes after Justin Trudeau. I wondered what made him so angry all the time, and I began to…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicola Davis, Pamela Duncan and Carmen Aguilar Garcia report that the toll of long COVID in the UK has surpassed a million people.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 7, 2022
#LegalTweetofDay: Biden pardons thousands of Americans convicted of ‘simple possession’ of pot #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3CQ3f73 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
The great game in Ukraine is spinning out of control
Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine/Facebook Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously described Ukraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both US and Russian…
"they thought they were doing the right thing at the time": a harmful denialism that we must challenge
They thought they were doing the right thing. They thought they were helping children. Now we know better. I recently heard this from a library customer. They were referring to…
Poilievre The Misogynist
The more we see and hear of Pierre Poilievre, the more there is to dislike. Alex Boutilier reports that: Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to…
We Need Class Actions.
It is the arrogance of the oil industry that really causes the problems. We need generations of citizens building on the work of those environmentalists who have gone before. It…
Today’s News: Starting the nuclear conversation
Back in the spring when there was a bunch of chatter about how the US and NATO should save Ukraine by declaring a no-fly zone, Biden categorically refused to consider…
Danielle Smith is chosen, too narrowly for comfort, to lead a divided United Conservative Party
Former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith beamed last night when she learned she had won the leadership of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party and is set to be sworn in…
Eating up the Hill: Smashburgers with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association
One of the highlights of the Parliamentary reception circuit has long been the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association annual beef BBQ in the East Block courtyard, held before the Ottawa weather gets…