2023

The Temptation of being Tory.

It is so embarrassing when your electoral district has been saddled with a conservative place-holder. Doug Ford appointed the schmuck as candidate in Barrie-Springwater—Oro-Medonte to keep the disgraced Patrick Brown…

Friday Afternoon Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Dave Davies interviews Jason C. Jackson about the widespread damage from long COVID – and the lack of remotely sufficient efforts either to…

Cancelling a culture

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1894-1930), Soviet poet, playwright and graphic artist with some of his propaganda posters. Photo courtesy Sovfoto/Universal Images Group. In Yekaterinburg, which has a reputation for being a progressive…

The Fading Consensus

At the end of World War II, the movers and shakers established a new economic order. They called it “The Washington Consensus.” Glen Pearson writes: The economic agreement of recent…

Things Could Be Worse

These days, I take my comforts wherever I can find them. In contemplating the state of my province, Ontario, under the administration of the Doug Ford government, I’m deriving some…

Legal Tweet of the Day: May 11, 2023

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Before Toronto murders, serial killer Bruce McArthur was labelled ‘very low risk,’ unsealed probation documents reveal #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3nQ1QII – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…

Trump’s Townhall

Donald Trump appeared on CNN last night. Frank Bruni writes that, if people are worried about Joe Biden’s mental acuity, they should consider Donald Trump’s mental health: Given all the…

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