A passport to Freedom.
It is called a laissez passer. It is similar to a passport but identifies the role of the individual at the United Nations or one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…
Peter Lowry
“Oh, you aren’t calling an election?”
It was fun the other day watching Farah Nasser of Global Television sparring verbally with prime minister Justin Trudeau. It was more notable for the lack of information than the…
Bring out your dead!
During Europe’s bubonic plagues in the Middle Ages, the tumbrils being hauled down cobblestone laneways were accompanied by calling out: Bring out your dead. And if there was anyone still…
Never Bet Based on Polls.
From day one of involvement in politics, I was leery of polls. Even the polls that I did along with my late friend Keith Davey were subject to careful scrutiny,…
In Defence of the Damned.
It is not often that the Toronto Star provides free advertising for the corrupters among us. Instead of the ladies and gentlemen so described paying for the Star’s attention, it…
Biden is a Baby Bonus Booster.
Did Canada’s prime minister give American president Joe Biden the tip? It’s a political axiom in Canada: If you don’t know what to do in politics, increase the baby bonus.…
Requiem for Canada’s Greens.
We thought we knew you. You have disappointed us. When Canada needs you, where will you be? You are our green initiative. You are not the back of the hand…
An Optimistic Jagmeet Singh?
Ottawa-based Toronto Star reporter Susan Delacourt tells us that new democratic party leader Jagmeet Singh is on a roll. She tells us that Singh has reasons to be optimistic about…
O’Toole will buy back Alberta.
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is playing second banana to liberal Justin Trudeau. The day after the prime minister was spreading pre-election loonies for votes in Calgary, ‘Oh Shucks’ O’Toole showed…
Found Being Black in Ottawa.
It must have been pandemic boredom. When our library opened up again last week, my wife brought home a number of books. One of them was Celina Caesar-Chavannes’ Can You…
Promises, promises.
Christmas might come early this year. Prime minister Justin Trudeau is so obviously weighing the pros and cons of just when to call the election. Summer elections are rather unpredictable.…
Simon sets a standard.
This is a mean trick to play on a useful person. Frankly I could care less that Mary Simon is the first aboriginal person on the job. It is a…
What’s in a Name?
Now they have done it. The lame brains on Toronto city council are actually discussing changing street names because of real or imagined transgressions in the past. All I know…
Building Better Bolder.
Help is here. My old friend, former federal transport minister David Collenette, has written a knowledgeable commentary on the VIA Rail plan for a ‘high-frequency’ passenger service in the Toronto,…
Greens have Gotta Grow-up.
The greens need to knock off the foolishness. And it is stupid. For the news media to be so malicious as to encourage non-elected people to report on inner-circle doings…
Give Me Shelter.
There is little reason to ever respect Ontario premier Doug Ford. It is not just that the man is untrained and unfit to be premier. It is the nature of…
A Question of Trust.
Journalists report on our politicians all the time. They think they can judge them best. They kid themselves. There is too much that they do not say about our MPs,…
We’ve heard this song before!
Of all the stupid announcements that are never going to happen, Omar Alghabra made it the other day. It might just be the purview of federal transportation ministers, but to…
While the World Burns.
It’s a puzzle that there are so many people who do not care or do not recognize the trouble in which our world struggles. To deny that climate change is…
Singh’s Success in Social Media.
Has nobody told NDP federal leader Jagmeet Singh that the TikTok program on the Internet is for children? About a third of the world-wide users are not old enough to…