Far right Alberta Conservative Jason Kenney Watching the Golden Globes on Sunday live, I saw at least three Government of Alberta TV ads extolling the virtues of the proposed Transmountain…
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma It’s that time of year again! I’m very happy to share my thoughts on my favourite flicks of this past year! As always, there does remain a…
B.C. voters opted for status quo by 61.3% this year After this week’s big defeat for proportional representation (PR) in the British Columbia referendum, change in Canada remains as elusive…
Following November’s announcement that Pride Toronto would again allow police organizations to apply to march in uniform in next year’s Pride parade, I wrote that it was time for that…
Meme of Maclean’s cover this week Like most liberals, I was hoping for a giant blue tsunami to wash over the United States in this week’s midterm elections. While the…
Last week, I expressed alarm about the fact that 25,000 people voted for a known white nationalist in the Toronto mayoral election, representing 3.4% of the overall Toronto vote. If…
Toronto mayor final voting results Yesterday, Torontonians voted in their municipal election and re-elected John Tory by a wide margin with 63.5% of the vote. Second place finisher Jennifer Keesmaat…
Goodbye, Mammoliti! 🙂 Congrats to John Tory who won an overwhelming re-election tonight in Toronto. The voters have spoken: the majority of them must be happy with his performance as…
I like Toronto mayor John Tory as a person. He seems decent enough and hard-working. He’s come a long way since the nasty backrooms of the 1993 federal election and…
The Canadian Press/Michael Hudson I supported the move two years ago by Toronto Pride to ban uniformed police officers from their annual parade and festivities.Like many at the time, I’d…
CAQ’s François Legault could win majority with only 30% of votes I’ve long advocated for proportional representation voting systems that would produce results that genuinely reflect the choices made by…
Like many people, I’ve been watching this week’s events in the U.S. closely as Brett Kavanaugh fights for a lifetime seat on the highest court amid very credible allegations he…
As a gay man who married another man yesterday, I’m overjoyed. I’m also proud to be reading here about these students taking a stand against the backwards Doug Ford government…
I was delighted this morning to hear the news that democratic rights including the right to effective representation, as well as freedom of expression, should mean something in Ontario. Justice…
Dictator Ford (photographed by Justin Tang of the Cdn Press) I’ll give Doug Ford one thing: like his late brother, he is an expert on swindling the public with his…
Undeniably handsome but dangerous Tory Sam Oosterhoff. Doug Ford is showing his hand, offering a little gift to the far-right zealots that make up at least 15% of his party…
Sign on display at Amyx Hardware in Tennessee since 2015. The notion that religious bigotries can trump basic human equality has always appalled me. When the U.S. Supreme Court, loaded…
Ontario political map after Thursday night. Oh, what a gross election in Ontario. I’m still digesting what happened Thursday but I do want to share some thoughts. Healthy democracies consist…
Honest Facebook meme making the rounds We saw this horror movie already in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was Mike Harris’ “Common Sense” Revolution which actually resulted in the…
Any decent person running for premier would’ve been able to say he’d support LGBT people and attend their annual parade. But not Doug Ford, who never misses an opportunity to…
