A Vision From Hell
While safe injection sites are not the ultimate answer to the opioid crisis engulfing increasing numbers of people, they at least save lives. Canada has stepped up to the plate…
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An Update On The Fraser Institute’s Essay Contest
OCDSB Trustees spoke out loud & clear against this distribution. Staff have responded by pulling it. — Theresa Kavanagh (@ironmaamt) January 24, 2018 Last week, I posted about the deplorable…
Is There A Fusion Reactor In Our Near-Future?
Because of our intractable and frequently selfish natures, humans look for the fabled deus ex machina to bail us out of our climate-change problems. Rather than alter our profligate habits,…
The Egregious Hypocrisy Of Evangelicals
I often post about evangelicals. Their arrant hypocrisy is something I cannot abide. Another example of that hypocrisy has some people steaming mad: Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele…
Lagging Far Behind
While people love to hear our sunny Prime Minister reassure us with his rosy rhetoric, it is becoming increasingly evident that his words mean little when it comes to climate…
An Ever-Widening Disparity
The Mound had a post today on the ever-widening disparity between the earth’s wealthiest and the rest of the world. The statistics are shocking: 82% of the global wealth generated…
All The Better To Serve The Lord
That can be the only possible explanation for the purchase of a Gulfstream V jet that evangelist Kenneth Copeland (a.k.a Kenneth Copeland Ministries) bought with his donors’ money. The specs…
What Trump Has Wrought
The divisiveness of the toddler-in-chief is never more evident than in this brief clip. As well, his supporters clearly will not tolerate a dissenting view as they react rather than…
Now This Is Truly, Deeply Deplorable
I think most people have heard of the right-wing Fraser Institute, the ‘non-partisan’ think tank that receives charitable tax status while promoting a largely neoliberal agenda. Well, they now seem…
Worth Repeating
I think Rick Mercer speaks for many of us in this ‘rant.’ Recommend this Post
Have You Signed Yet?
Despite all of his sanctimonious talk about tax fairness, there is little evidence thus far that Justin Trudeau is committed to anything more than indulging in his standard soaring rhetoric.…
A New McCarthyism
We all knew them growing up – the kid who would do anything to curry favour with the teacher, the one we knew variously as ‘the brown-noser,’ the ‘suck-up’ or…
Thought For The Day
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Double Double, Toil And Trouble: Star Readers On Tim Hortons And The Minimum Wage Hike
As always, the letters from Star readers do not disappoint: I am really finding it difficult to empathize with businesses like Tim Hortons crying over the minimum-wage increase. The fact…
Two Faces Of Appeasement
T The first picture you will recognize as Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minster sufficiently deluded to believe that he had a deal with Adolph Hitler that could keep his…
A Timely Message For Mr. Trump And His Fellow Travellers
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Trudeau Town Halls: Baubles Of Distraction, Not Questions Of Substance
Prime-Minister-For-A-Day Kim Campbell is probably best remembered for saying, “An election is no time to discuss serious issues.” She might just as well have been talking about town halls, particularly…
Despite The Hysteria The Sky Will Not Fall
In an op-ed piece the other day, Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, wrote of the economic Armageddon awaiting Ontario businesses thanks to the recently-hiked Ontario…
You Get What You Pay For
That fundamental truth is grasped by two small-scale entrepreneurs, much to the shame of much larger entities like Tim Hortons which, as widely reported, are taking out their outrage and…