Ontario’s Ombudsman is a disgrace
Here’s yet more evidence, from Tom Adams. My recent experience, here. This man is out of control. Facing serial human rights complaints. Buying a $2,000 flat screen TV for his…
Warren
Harm, self-harm and depression
Quote: Investigators are focusing on whether a “personal life crisis” led a Germanwings pilot to intentionally crash a plane into the French Alps on Tuesday, Bild Zeitung reported, citing unidentified…
ISIS: I am confused, as usual
How does bombing targets in Syria, without asking Syria for permission, and continuing to condemn Syria, make us an ally of Syria? #cdnpoIi — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 26, 2015…
Why the Mike Duffy trial/scandal/whatever won’t topple the government, with bonus ALL CAPS
You all know my views on scandal stuff, but you also know I am a digitized, Internet-based broken record, and possibly not even a person. To wit: scandal-mongering DOESN’T WORK.…
The key sentence in the Competition Bureau decision on Sun-Postmedia acquisition/merger
Right here: “The Bureau also took into consideration the dynamic nature of media markets and the challenges faced by traditional media in adapting to an increasingly digital world.” Shorter version:…
In this week’s Hill Times: ten reasons why the Grits and Dippers won’t dance
These are some of the things that happen every four years: leap year, a total solar eclipse, the Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup. Oh, and debate—ad infinitum, ad nauseam—about…
ISIS: read this
This Matthews guy is smart. One expert in genocide and war said the government motion neatly manoeuvred Trudeau into repudiating his own party’s foreign policy legacy. “I think now from…
Pope Francis is the most important progressive leader in the world
And here’s yet another reason why.
The war against ISIS: write your own talking points
As expected, the Harper government is moving to extend and even expand our participation in the international force targeting ISIS. The Conservatives – with the possible exception of Michael Chong…
Meanwhile, indigenous people say they were born here first, and want Donald Trump to go back to where he came from
…which, clearly, is a European insane asylum.
Your morning moral relativism
If you’re like me, you form judgments based upon a number of variables. You look at the evidence, and you choose. So, you look at the evidence unearthed by the…
Pennywise!
I can breathe in this world.
Meerkat and Periscope will change politics
Mark my words. My band did a Toronto show on Thursday night. We played live, and we were seen by a respectable number of people as far away as Australia.…
Political foot-in-mouth disease: when is it an accident, and when is it deliberate?
Michael Harris in iPolitics: The odd thing about about this re-run of the Right of the Living Dead in the CPC is that it represents something that Stephen Harper himself…
SFH comes alive!
From left: Davey Snot, Royal Niblet, Steve Deceive and Winkie Smith. Bjorn von Flapjack III? Who cares. We hate him, now. I love Stevie’s Townshend-esque flourish. Classic. Oh, and we…
Headline of 2015 so far
Spotted by the ever-vigilant Michael Slavitch.
In this week’s Hill Times: it’s 2015, not 1939
In May 1939, the ocean liner St. Louis departed Hamburg with nearly 1,000 Jews onboard. They were heading to Cuba, to escape Nazi persecution. When they arrived in Havana, two…
Whistle while you work
Quote: Like a real dog whistle which produces sound at a high frequency that can be heard by canines but not by humans, dog-whistle politics refers to the use of…
Ottawa-based guy chimes in
Quote: Warren Kinsella, another Ottawa-based political strategist and former Special Assistant to Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien agrees. “The NDP never wants the Green party there, the Liberals would prefer…