What is Wynne running from?
There is a television advertisement running these days of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne running. It should have a warning on it to tell kids not to try this at home.…
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Any idiot can play blackjack.
Periodically Babel-on-the-Bay tries to be helpful to Ontario gamblers. It is not that the rules are all that different but in Ontario you have two strong government ministries fighting over…
Prince Charles as a senior citizen.
At a time when most wage earners are retiring Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall is still waiting to do the job he was supposedly born to.…
Rob Ford needs his fishing buddy Stephen Harper.
There is no better form of bonding between men than fishing. It is a quiet introspective time that you share with a true buddy. And what better buddies could there…
Stephen Harper’s scorched earth plan.
It was in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Halloween convention speech and we failed to recognize it. It is there in his disdain for Ottawa and its elites. It is there…
Does Tim Hudak really have a strategy?
There was a Toronto Star exclusive story the other day about a document that might be Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s secret strategy for the upcoming provincial campaign. The Lord…
Rob Ford news is now officially boring.
It took a lot of excruciatingly boring repetition and alarmist claims in the news media over many weeks but we can now declare the Mayor Rob Ford affair to be…
The Canadian crash of 2016.
It will be former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s legacy. Forget free trade with Europe. Forget the adulation and fawning over him by the G8. Stephen Harper will be remembered for…
More on wooing Toronto-Centre.
How about giving your leader some help here Chrystia Freeland? As Liberal Candidate for the November 25 by-election in Toronto-Centre, you should not leave all the heavy lifting to Liberal…
Tommy takes on Justin in Toronto.
If you think the fight for the Toronto-Centre by-election on November 25 is between two outstanding candidates—Linda McQuaig and Chrystia Freeland—you are wrong. The real battle is between their party…
In wonder of Wynne’s Whigs.
There was a picture in the newspaper the other day of Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa. He was looking so smug and self satisfied as though all was great in…
The toils of Tough Tommy.
There was a very telling news clip on the television news the other day of Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair asking a question of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Both speakers had…
Is Chief Blair Mayor Ford’s doppelganger?
That spectre that comes for you as your life flashes before you in death is your doppelganger. It seems totally fitting that the wraith Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should see…
This business of Canada’s Senate.
Surely many Canadians are aware of the Prime Minister repeatedly saying that in any business, people who are reputed to have falsified expense reports would have been fired. We should…
Has the NDP’s Horwath lost control?
It is one thing to argue with your party leader but it is entirely different to have a profanity-laden screaming match with her in the Ontario Legislature. That was what…
Conservatives constantly challenge change.
At the Halloween convention of the Conservative Party in Calgary, there was often more of interest behind the scenes than at the microphones. One of the most unusual pieces of…
Harper wastes his bully pulpit.
When U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term ‘bully pulpit,’ he was talking about the White House. He said that it was a pulpit to which people have to listen.…
How green are Premier Wynne’s Green Bonds?
Did you hear about Premier Kathleen Wynne doing another stand-up for the media the other day? It was to promote Green Bonds for transit in Ontario. It could be an…
Stephen Harper is counting coup in Calgary.
It is Halloween and the Conservative Party of Canada is gathering in its spiritual home of Calgary to pay obeisance to its liege lord and to drink of the wine…
Voters hardly deserve our governments.
It is a mindless statement of politics that the voters get the government they deserve. That is such a false statement that it should be declared illegal to even say…