Posting with Poilievre.
It was amusing reading how Pierre Poilievre side stepped any conflict with Alberta premier Danielle Smith when dealing with questions about Alberta and the Canada Pension Plan. It was pure…
Peter Lowry
Confounding the Critics.
The other day, a friend proposed a blog on how Ontario premier Doug Ford is hoping to get even with the critics who don’t want him making his friends rich…
Betrayal of the Father.
It was the balance that Pierre Trudeau brought to the use of language in Canada that his eldest son betrayed. In Bill C-13’s enactment by parliament in June of this…
Bringing It Home.
It is obvious that the federal conservative party has more money than good sense these days. Watching their current $3 million advertising campaign, one can only think of the despair…
Consent of the Governed.
Ontario residents have come to regret the lack of education of their premier. He is obviously not the only conservative politician these days who neither knows nor understands this basic…
Singh’s Slippery Slope.
Canada’s federal new democrats met in Hamilton the other day. It was a weekend of glad-handing and denial. It was a weekend of conviviality and self delusion. It was renditions…
Don’t Do It Here.
There is no honour among those who hate. There is little honour in the Middle East. Hamas is but a tool for the hypocrites in Arab states that fulminate war…
Leadership Down.
It was interesting to read the other day that the Jerusalem Post believed a poll that indicated that four out of five Jewish Israelis blame prime minister Netanyahu for the…
Conservative Curmudgeons.
Somehow, through the years, the conservatives in Canada have taken a wrong turn. From a basic ideology of conserving the qualities of life for Canadians, the conservative leadership has taken…
Coalitions; Like Good Sex.
Former new democratic leader Ed Broadbent was talking on the CBC recently about the current liberal-new democratic supply and confidence agreement in Ottawa. He thinks this agreement should have been…
The Tory Trap.
Only the Ontario liberals could fail to look ahead. They decided to have a leadership contest, so leisurely, it is putting the party to sleep. They need to wake up…
Alberta Waste Management.
One of the tasks, the federal government leaves to the provinces is waste management. It is a task that nobody worried about very much back at the time of confederation.…
Ford’s Frailty.
In seniors, frailty is a set of symptoms pertaining to the approaching end of life. In politics, it is the weaknesses other politicians will recognize as the key to defeating…
Alberta’s Arithmetic.
Canadians must be embarrassed by the arithmetic we are hearing out of the premier’s office in Edmonton. Nobody would expect the premier to be a world class mathematician but for…
Talking Turkey.
Who would be so rude as to sit around a delicious turkey dinner discussing the price of the bird? Nor should we assume that there will be much discussion of…
Never Promise A Rose Garden.
If you ever want to teach a class of neophyte politicians how to raise the funds they will need, you should start with lectures by municipal politicians. This is where…
The Second Ottawa Convoy.
Since they could afford to fly, there are no trucks parked on Wellington Street in Ottawa this week. This convoy from the west is made up of senior executives from…
American Chaos.
It is not that we have been ignoring what is going on with the Americans. We just keep hoping it will heal itself. Past President Trump is under indictment and…
Liberating Liberalism.
Listening to the candidates for the leadership of the liberal party is not doing much to promote liberalism. You get the impression that Ted Hsu MPP is the only one…
A Cutting Contest.
The other day, we addressed the severity of the military budget cuts. The bad news is that there are more cuts to come in other departments of the federal government.…