Inflating Inflation.
When do the pressures of inflation take major retailers from legitimate profits to price gouging? I ask this out of deep concern. I watched recently when chairman and president Galen…
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Conning Cohn.
Columnist Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star refers to Ontario premier Doug Ford as a populist. Well, he might have Cohn convinced, but you really can’t read sincerity off…
A Test for the Tories.
A by-election has been called for the Ontario federal electoral district of Mississauga-Lakeshore. What makes it of broader interest, is that it is a typical Ontario riding that would be…
Poilievre’s Progress.
Three months in office and little more has been revealed by the new leader of the conservative party. A career politician, he moved immediately to the pictures with his wife…
It’s Boring.
The inquiry in Ottawa is stagnating. Justice Paul Rouleau of the Ontario Court of Appeal is getting testier. He has little time to hear the questions and less time to…
Ford Flinches.
For a guy who thinks bombast beats brains, Ontario premier Doug Ford flinched recently. He was facing the prospect of a general strike of both public and private sector unions…
Pee-Pee is Patient.
That champion of Bitcoin, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre (Pee-Pee) tells us that he supports the peaceful elements in last winter’s “freedom convoy.” He seems to be waiting for Justice Paul…
Does Democracy Die?
We have more to think about this Remembrance Day than the dead of two world wars. We need to think about what they died for. From North America, our soldiers…
Justin’s Fear of Change.
If you Google it, you will find ‘Fear of Change’ is called metathesiophobia. So, let’s just call it fear of change. The prime minister made it very clear, in his…
‘We the Jury.’
The trial is going on now in Ottawa. The judge is Justice Paul Rouleau of the Ontario Court of Appeal. Our federal government is the accused. The accusers are people…
A Liberal Leader’s Lost Legacy.
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being destroyed. It is under attack by the mean and bigoted. It is under attack by the ignorant. It will fail completely if…
Who’s the Boss?
The question is: who makes the rules for business in our society? It is a question that our governments never fully address. Our political parties range from the partnership with…
Serfs Up!
We are not talking about the ocean surf here. We are talking about the people Ontario premier Doug Ford seems to consider as his serfs. He doesn’t seem to understand…
Food Fight.
Going into a grocery store today is not the pleasure I used to feel when going into a well-run store. Each visit becomes a brutal series of price shocks. It…
Letting Lecce Learn?
I heard over the grapevine the other day that the word on Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce is that he is too old to be handsome and too young to…
Pee-Pee, Where Are You?
Our Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre (Pee-Pee) has vanished. Our new leader of Canada’s conservatives is among the missing. After all the hoopla around his winning the leadership, you would think…
A Peoples’ Parliament.
A peoples’ parliament is an ideal for Canada but reality is that we have an elitist prime minister, a manipulative leader of the opposition and a few other struggling parties.…
These Twits Twitter.
I have never been able to make the connection between the more popular personal Internet exchanges and the world of blogs. About 10 years ago, one of my grandsons told…
A Frugal Ford?
Ontario premier Doug Ford has an unusual problem for a conservative. The provincial government’s Financial Accountability Office says that the government has a $2.1 billion budget surplus instead of a…
A Shotgun Marriage?
Do we realize that it is the Canadian consumer who is getting screwed in this Rogers takeover of Shaw Communications? It would leave Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus free to…