The Unkindest Cut Of All
Devolution. Debasement. Depraved Indifference. Apply whatever term you like, but the cuts coming furiously from the Ford government in Ontario surely bespeak a state that no ruling body, and by…
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Trouble In The Principal’s Office
H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
If This Doesn’t Enrage You
… check for a pulse. Most people, I think, understand that proper taxation is essential to a viable society. All they ask is that the burden be shared equitably. However,…
Your Monday Morning Thought
So glad that we have our heads screwed on straight. H/t Greg Perry Recommend this Post
Can You Imagine Canadians Doing This?
I can’t. I suspect our country would see more turning out to protest the carbon tax than to save the planet from extinction. “It’s growing at an amazing rate. I…
A Good Friday Observation
A friend sent this along. I hope it prompts some sober reflections on this Good Friday. Recommend this Post
A Call For Leadership
Jason Kenney’s UCP has achieved a majority in Alberta. Proclaiming that Alberta is open for business and that “ope is on the horizon,” he joins Ontario’s Doug Ford both in…
Sounds Like Corporate Extortion To Me
Given all of the revelations about how the Liberals legislated Deferred Prosecutions with SNC-Lavalin expressly in mind, it is perhaps no surprise that Big Pharma is now attempting to flex…
Well, Well, Well
For someone who is ‘for the people,” Doug Ford has a strange way of showing his fealty to them. Buried in last week’s budget bill is a nugget that will…
Henhouse Alert
Welcome to Ontario, A Place To Grow and Open For Business. Depending upon whether you are a private driver or a commercial operator, you will soon be sporting one of…
An All-Out Attack
On the surface, the ructions in education occurring in Ontario may hold little interest to those living in other jurisdictions. However, those residing elsewhere would be well-advised to keep an…
More About Bread And Circuses
I expressed concerns in yesterday’s post about the cheap, diversionary tactics being employed by Doug Ford to distract the masses as he goes about systematically gutting the programs that make…
Toga Party, Anyone?
The Romans were well-known for their embrace of bread and circuses. Indeed, an excerpt from Wikipedia sums it all up rather nicely: In a political context, the phrase means to…
Roadmap To Ruin
Heading up Toronto’s Bay Street yesterday en route to the massive gathering at Queen’s Park to protest the savage surgery the Ford regime is conducting on public education was something…
Christine Elliott’s Debasement
There was a time I had a measure of respect for Christine Elliott. She seemed to me to be someone largely above the toxic politics that now ensnares public discourse…
Sacrificing Isaac
Yesterday’s post dealt with the fact that climate change has thus far resulted in Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world; of course, much worse is…
Running Out Of Time
These days, when it comes to issues like democracy’s health and catastrophic climate change, I am feeling pretty much spent, so much so that I find it hard to write…
Corporate Extortion
Two noteworthy revelations in the SNC-Lavalin scandal have come to light. The first deals with impropriety, and the second with what can only be called corporate extortion. First, The Star…
The Truth Is Out There
Actually, it is much closer than that, hiding in plain sight. Recommend this Post
Judged And Found Wanting
If the true measure of a society is to be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members, Ontario, under the Doug Ford regime, and all those who voted…