The Rise of Canada’s Precariat. Thanks Morneau.
The natives are restless. There’s a powerful anger simmering among the masses echoing a great and persistent discontent. Like the motto of that TV show, “winter is coming.” Just for…
The Mound of Sound
"You Can’t Respect People Because Most People Aren’t Worthy of Respect."
So says the man who proclaims himself the “voice of the people,” Donald J. Trump, Republican nominee for president of the United States. The New York Times, no fan of…
Justin, Andrew Would Like a Moment of Your Time
Is petro-statehood the path that leads to the Americanization of Canada? It kind of looks that way to Canada’s top petro-journo, Andrew Nikiforuk. The Tyee energy scribe sees Justin as…
Why Does the Federal Department of Fisheries Condone This?
I know, I know. So you’re in Ontario and you think this doesn’t matter to you. Think again. Go to your grocery store and buy that great looking “Atlantic salmon.”…
The Death March of Donald J Trump
It has been one of the few graces common to American politics that presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, have been graceful in defeat. John Kerry, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Al…
Greenwald and Snowden Versus Assange
There’s not a lot of love going around for WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, these days. It seems his friends list is down to perhaps just Donald Trump. Even his hosts,…
An Affliction of the Mind or Why We Can’t Handle Climate Change
We’re just too set in our ways to have any real hope of tackling the basket of looming existential challenges facing mankind and, for that matter, pretty much all life…
America’s Hair Apparent. Vanity Fair Takes the Piss Out of Donald Trump And That Thing On His Head
It’s an understatement to mention that there’s no love lost between Donald Trump and Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter. Carter has a lengthy history of poking fun at The Donald’s…
Hypocrisy, Your Name is Trudeau
Remarks by Natural Resources Minister, Jim Carr, and Environment Minister, Dame Cathy, have erased any lingering hope that the Trudeau government is serious about climate change and the world future…
Speaking of the Surveillance Society
Anyone remember Gigapixel, the Vancouver company that developed the 4-billion pixel photograph that could capture an entire crowd with resolution suitable for face recognition software? Look at the picture below,…
The Brilliance that was Bacharach and Warwick
His music, her voice – magic. Warwick with Stevie Wonder, the late Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross.
Somehow, I Don’t Think America is Done With Her Yet
It’s difficult for me to imagine that America is ready to let go of Michelle Obama no matter how much she wants just that. I think Americans, like most of…
If Our Close Allies Do It…
Surely it can’t be a crime. “It” is the now infamous “double tap.” The Americans like to do it with Hellfire missiles delivered from their drones. The Saudis do it…
Merry Christmas, Posties.
Santa is coming to PostMedia this year and he’s bringing an axe. PostMedia has announced that it will cut “staffing costs” by 20%, this time around. That will be done…
Anti-Semites for Trump.
He’s earned the fulsome endorsement of the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, and its Imperial Wizard. He’s pretty much the candidate of choice for all manner of American extremists and…
"The Definition of Hypocrisy"
Canada’s biggest customer for lethal military hardware also happens to be the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East with a seemingly unquenchable appetite for slaughtering civilians. Former…
Even Monsters Can Have Progressive Leanings
Donald Trump says he’ll do this. Donald Trump says he’ll do that. And the Gullabillies cherry pick from what Donald Trump says those things that they like and just discard…
A Confluence of Events or The Tiger Hillary Must Ride
There’s a lot of concern in Europe and Asia that a sudden victory over ISIS forces in Iraq could see a lot of dangerous radicals returning to the countries out…
2016 Already "Hottest Year on Record"
But wait, we haven’t even had the kids at the door for Halloween yet. Apparently with two and a half months yet to go, almost a full season, 2016 is…
Ezra Gets a Drubbing
Has he even paid off his judgment creditors yet? It seems Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media is flush with funds, enough to send three “journalists” to the upcoming UN climate summit…