Now that he’s made a little progress sorting out Canada’s gun enthusiasts, maybe it’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do something about those coronavirus mega-spreaders in our midst…
The parallels recall the 2003 ‘Holy Shit’ fire in Western Canada. Ed Struzik 30 Apr 2020 | The Conversation Canada Edward Struzik is the author of Firestorm: How Wildfire Will…
RCMP officers assemble in Burnaby Mountain Park in response to a citizen’s protest rally against oil giant Kinder Morgan, Thursday, November 20, 2014. Photo by Mark Klotz/Flickr. This article is…
Jason Kenney marked May 1 with a message to the Conservative base complaining about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decisive move in the wake of the murderous shooting rampage in Portapique,…
Kristin Rayworth is a woman who works for the Alberta government and who used to follow me on Twitter. About two years ago, Rayworth publicly tweeted at me that she…
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister at the 2017 Canada Summer Games. Photo from Flickr. One misstep from disaster While many will escape the worst health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic currently…
Did you know Oklahoma has an official state meal? The State Legislature in Oklahoma City designated the repast as an official state symbol in 1988. And, I must say, it…
Tzeporah Berman, the high-profile Vancouver environmentalist, on Friday lauded the oil-sector provisions of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 bailout package as a sensible way to begin winding down the Canadian…
Surging deaths in Canadian long-term care facilities have blown Canada’s COVID-19 death projections to smithereens. Last night, the CBC reported the number of deaths from COVID-19 is already double what…
CBC logo under magnifying glass. Photo by Marco Verch/Flickr. The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a surge of web traffic from people stuck at home and eager to keep up…
The Alberta Government spent between $14,000 and $20,000 on Facebook advertisements promoting Premier Jason Kenney’s announcement Alberta would donate 750,000 N95 medical masks and other personal protective equipment to Ontario,…
Witness this humdinger of an interview by Sarnia-Lampton MP and current Conservative Party leadership contender Marilyn Gladu. Apparently we should be following the lead of President Trump: Sarnia-Lambton’s MP wants…
It should be obvious by now that if a society wants to keep long-term care for the frail and elderly from turning into a deadly nightmare during pandemics, it must…
Dimitri Lascaris, a long-time activist, author and former class-action lawyer is running to be the next leader of the Green Party of Canada. Photo by Vadim Daniel. During last year’s…
Who would have thought a decade ago, or even six months back, that Canada’s chances of surviving as a unified country would be better than those of the United States?…
One hates to play the skunk at a tea party, but somebody needs to ask the question a lot of Albertans must be thinking. To wit, if less than a…
One of the twitter feeds I follow commented that since mass social/physical distancing and self isolation has taken place, every day is like the other – the news is the…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney actually sounded pretty good on TV last night as he laid out the hard facts about COVID-19, what it’ll probably do, and what might do if…
As is often the case when dealing with Donald Trump, the saga of the five million N95 respirators built by Minnesota’s 3M Co. and purchased by Ontario keeps changing. On…
Universal adoption of homemade face masks would have huge health and economic benefits in the current global coronavirus pandemic, says a paper published a few days ago by seven Yale…
