Dueling videos — Trudeau vs Poilievre
These two clips are being set up as “dueling” videos. Last spring, Trudeau was talking to a right-wing teenager in Manitoba. This week, Poilievre was talking to a BC reporter…
In All Humility
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My latest: listen to Josh
KINSELLA COLUMN by Warren Kinsella Josh Gilman is a writer. And the whole world needs to see what he’s written. And, in the past few days, a lot of the…
Sliding Saskatchewan
Talked briefly with an NDP MLA after the vote today. He wants to find common ground with his political opposition, but how do you when they're hell bent on taking…
Saturday Photo: And a Cardinal in a Grape Vine
Well, you can’t see it, but this week a female cardinal visited our grape vine several mornings to feast on the wild grapes growing there. It was a bad year…
Will We Get Pharmacare?
Last week, at the NDP Convention, the delegates insisted that the Liberals deliver a pharmacare program by 2025 or their deal was off. Susan Delacourt writes: Their arrangement clearly states…
Banning Palestine support rallies. Could it happen in Canada?
Thousands rally in Melbourne in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Photo by Matt Hrkac/Wikimedia Commons. In the immediate wake of the recent events in Israel-Palestine, conservative and even centrist politicians…
Pet Lovers Revolt!
For all the dog lovers out there, especially, there’s some bad news: A recent study found that Covid definitely does infect dogs and affects their neural processing (their brain)! “We…
Poilievre, Smith Playing With CPP Fire
Canadians need to be mad that any politician – especially Poilievre – is playing games with OUR CPP. The post Poilievre, Smith Playing With CPP Fire first appeared on Excited…
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…
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joins Alberta pension plan uproar, proffers weak endorsement of Canada Pension Plan
In an obvious effort to inoculate himself against being identified as an enemy of the Canada Pension Plan, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday inserted himself into the open-letter uproar…
Canada is one of the world’s leaders
Canada a world leader? Sometimes that headline is good news. This time it is not…
COVID-19 death toll: 7 million, 18 million, 27 million or 33 million?
The Economist, a 180-year-old newspaper published in Britain, has been tracking deaths from COVID-19. They examine fatalities reported by official sources, but also look for how many people have actually…
Musical interlude
Nors Kode feat. Michelle Featherstone – I’m On Fire
Suck on it, Covidiots
Just got my seventh Covid shot. Never had it. (Have had 23 flu shots over 23 years. Never got that, either.) Oh, and here are my Dr. Fauci pins that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sigal Samuel discusses the potential to better target investments toward well-being – though it seems odd to criticize measures of health as a…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 20, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario may bring in new rules to make it harder to place a lien on your home #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mtnab586 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Forestry for the Future campaign reveals the corruption of Canadian news media
A 2018 study by Montréal-based Union des Consommateurs found “serious ethical problems” with native advertising in Canada, including “the erosion of the impenetrable wall that, in the news media, must…