Parsing Justin Trudeau’s Words
Like many, I have real reservations about Justin Trudeau’s capacity for the kind of leadership that reflects a mature and nuanced mind. While many praise him for his spontaneity and…
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Note To Tim Hortons Head Office: Please Respect Your Workers
On Sunday, I wrote about The Toronto Star reporting that a Tim Hortons franchisee is eliminating paid breaks for his/her employees as retaliation against the June 1 increase of the…
Martk Carney Speaks On The Consequences Of Unbridled Capitalism
Mark Carney said the following to a group of the world’s elites last week: “Just like any revolution eats its children,” Carney told the audience of global power brokers, “unchecked…
A Mound Of Sound Guest Post: The Lessons Of Afghanistan
Drawing upon his war studies course, The Mound of Sound offers the following perspective on what went wrong in Afghanistan: Bad leadership, especially when it is political and military, costs…
Tim Hortons Takes Aim And Fires
The advertising would have us believe that Tim Hortons is a Canadian institution and icon that we should all revere as patriotic citizens. Who can forget the role the coffee…
A Safe Bet
Mother Jones predicts that the next episode of Cosmos will inflame the climate-change deniers. I think that is a safe bet: Recommend this Post
Sometimes You Just Have To Hold Your Nose
It would never occur to me to withhold my vote in any election. Yet the one occurring in Ontario on June 12 is particularly striking in its paucity of real…
Everything Is So Simple
That is, if you have a fundamentalist cast of mind like Pastor Matthew Hagee, who says this whole climate change thing is ordained by God, and to pay no attention…
Lonely At The Top?
If Stephen Harper isn’t ‘feelin’ the love,’ it is a situation of his own making. Two brief excerpts from Tim Harper’s column in today’s Star, entitled Stephen Harper’s slide into…
I Have A Simpler Solution
The headline reads, Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze The group representing Canada’s restaurant owners is calling for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
Putting The Climate-Change ‘Debate’ Into Perspective
I think John Oliver does this rather effectively: And on a more sobering note, you might like to gnaw on this ominous nugget. Recommend this Post
Forecast: Very Cloudy Indeed
Mike de Sousa is a former Post Media reporter now operating his own website continuing his investigative work into energy and the environment. He is well-worth paying attention to. His…
A Timely Reminder of Young Tim Hudak’s Faulty Math
While much of the media seem to give young Tim Hudak a free pass on his ludicrouse claim that he will create one million jobs in Ontario over eight years…
A Mound Of Sound Guest Post: The Relentless Growth of CO2
I put this item together a while ago but I was reminded of it today while reading a report from the WMO, the World Meteorological Organization, that April will go…
Nature And The Heavy Hand Of Humanity
As difficult as this is to watch, we all have a responsibility to bear witness to our collective folly: Post by HelaNada.com – A Brand New Experience. Recommend this Post
New Enemies, New Misdirections
Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising later sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLorey. The letter stressed the need to build a…
Why Do They Do It?
For the sheer joy of it, I suspect: To know and respect nature is to know and respect ourselves. All is connected. Recommend this Post
A Mound Of Sound Guest Post: Libya – We Screwed Up Good, Real Good
Libya, remember that place? That’s where NATO waged a bombing campaign against the forces of the late dictator, Muamar Gaddafi. When Gaddafi was ousted we figured we’d done real good.…
Contempt Of The Electorate?
Tom, a friend of mine, posted the following on Facebook yesterday: Kind of tired of all the polemical posturing in the latest election. However, can anyone provide one instance in…