Scheer’s Consistent Inconsistency
2020 has been a crazy year so far, and maybe the continual piling of crap coming from it is wearing on me. Or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and…
Cam Holmstrom
Ignorance Over Pride in Emo
It’s 2020 and there are many things that are normal parts of our society today that just weren’t decades ago. We’ve progressed a lot as a society and we’ve got…
Ford’s Delicious Cheesecake Third Strike?
As our fight against Covid-19 continues apace we’ve slowly started to see some activities come back to normal faster than maybe we would have hoped. One is the behaviours in…
An Opportunity Right Under Our Feet
The Covid-19 global pandemic & the economic crisis that followed from it has been hard on everyone. We’ve seen millions of people lose their jobs, certain industries shuttered and so…
An Eerie Consensus
If there is anything we can say with certainty about our times is that they are very uncertain. Covid-19 has turned a lot of things on its head and we’ve…
Our Border Dilemma
All over the country we’re starting to see a slow re-opening of many parts of society as we adjust to living with Covid-19. Every province is taking different approaches, some…
An Ugly Manitoban Birthday Snub
As a keen observer of politics all over the place, it has been interesting for me to watch how certain political leaders have managed to respond to the Covid-19 global…
Talking Leaders Responsibility to Set the Example with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Doug Ford flaunting Covid-19 health rules…
Selfish Pandemic Grandstanding Coming to Queen’s Park
During the battle against Covid-19 we’ve seen very few examples of poor behaviour when it’s come to our political leaders working together. We’ve seen some in Ottawa involving partisan spats…
Talking the Latest on the Easing of COVID-19 Restrictions on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the latest on the provinces beginning to…
Not Helping the Team: The Chilliwacky Trustee
Through out our fight against Covid-19 we’ve seen so many people rise to the challenge of these times, make big sacrifices and do whatever they can to help their communities.…
A New Tension in the Workplace
It’s almost hard to believe that for many of us we’re starting our third month living with the measures to fight Covid-19. It was two months ago today that Ontario…
The Good, The Bad and the Connie
When the history of Canada’s fight against Covid-19 is written, after all of this is done, part of that history will tell the tale of those who shone in this…
Quebec’s Risky Scholastic Return
We’ve reached the point during the Covid-19 pandemic where governments are starting to have deeper conversations about re-opening things and re-starting some economic activities that have been shut down since…
A Normal Returning Too Fast
As we have been battling Covid-19 we’ve seen many things happen that Canadians can be proud of. As someone who worked and volunteered in politics for over a decade, one…
The Policy Possibilities of this Moment
We’re living in hard times that are full of so much uncertainty for so many. Covid-19 has turned the lives of millions of Canadians on its head and that’s forced…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: Natural Consequences Come to Dryden
It was just a bit more than a week ago that I had the sad duty to report here on the sad inaction taken by the council of the City…
Disconnected from the Present
Yesterday here at this blog I wrote a piece about how certain political figures have shown an inability to look past their partisan stereotypes in order to rise to the…
The Blue Cold Shoulder
As we have been fighting Covid-19 there have been some interesting developments in how we have reacted to certain things that would be normally be a part of our political…
Talking the Slow Re-Opening from Covid-19 with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the slow start of re-opening from…