Doug’s Doom.
It won’t go away Doug. The Ontario Greenbelt will live on, long after you are gone. What Ontario’s premier does not recognize is that Ontario’s Greenbelt has its roots in…
Peter Lowry
Leave No Cliché Unused.
Does Pierre Poilievre, our little boy blue and leader of Canada’s conservatives, now have some conservative concerns to help him do his job? He met with conservatives in Quebec City…
Tell It Like It Is Paul.
Ontario premier Doug Ford thinks he has chosen well. Telling the truth has never been a strong or notable habit of Ontario’s new housing minister. I told you the other…
Poilievre’s Posturing.
Where does conservative leader Pierre Poilievre get off referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a foreign dictator? That was what Poilievre inferred in his speech to the conservative party…
Good News, Bad News.
There was a note on Pierre Poilievre’s desk when he reported in after his summer holiday: Sire: We have good news and bad news. It seems that the generation Zee…
The ‘Truthiness’ of All.
The word ‘Truthiness” has come into heavy play. “Truthiness” applies to the relative truth of what we learn from the Internet and other questionable sources for news. ‘Truthiness’ is truth,…
Who’s Right?
It is not just who’s holier than thou in Alberta. It is who is further in commitment to the right-wing loonies. I was inclined to give up on my high…
Steve, We Hardly Knew Ye.
Sometimes a boy from Brockville gets overlooked but Steve Clark had an impressive electoral record before Ontario premier Doug Ford made him minister of municipal affairs and housing. Steve had…
The Importance of Being Liberal.
Oscar Wilde published The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. It was a farce for its time. The importance of being a liberal is something of a farce for our…
On a Bicycle Built for Two.
Okay Toronto, how are you and your new mayor doing? Is she getting all those Torontonians out of their cars and onto bicycles? Has she had Dundas Street renamed? Is…
Say ‘No’ to Singh.
Federal new democratic party leader Jagmeet Singh wants the liberal government to come up with another one-time benefit payment of $500 for low-income families. This is the same as the…
Integrity be Damned.
Integrity is a catch word for accountability. The report of Ontario’s integrity commissioner does much more than impeach the honesty of the minister of municipal affairs and housing. It brings…
Guilbeault’s Guilt.
If, by some miracle, the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline is completed this year, where will the tar sands bitumen come from to fill that greedy sucker? On one…
Confusing Conservatives.
It is hard to compare the conservatives in opposition in Ottawa and the conservatives in power at Queen’s Park for Ontario. The main difference must be the anger in opposition…
Singh’s Song.
New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh’s turbans might be bright and colorful but his beard is graying. It is also showing a little more trimming, in contravention of the dictates…
Time To Go Justin Trudeau.
Your sunny days are done, Justin. And few voters want to watch you being defeated by the Ottawa cowboy, Pierre Poilievre. We hear that your effort to provide Alberta with…
Let Me Entertain You.
Listening to Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie the other day was a surprise political event. It was the first time I had seen her give a speech to an audience. She…
No Rest for the Wicked.
No, premier Ford, the Greenbelt fiasco is not going away. Firing Ryan Damato was just the first of many steps back you need to take. Not that you hurt his…
Ford Fails Fallacious.
He cannot win his Greenbelt argument and he doesn’t know when to shut up. Every time the Ontario premier opens his mouth in public, he sticks a foot in his…
Ford’s Fall Guy.
In the time-honoured tradition of sleazy politics, Ryan Amato, who, until the turfing, was chief of staff to the Ontario housing minister, got turfed out the back door at Queen’s…
