The Ford Agenda.
It is hard to tell if the pandemic is helping hide premier Doug Ford’s agenda for Ontario or just slowing it down. His plans seem to be everything except the…
Doug Ford
Ontario’s COVID-19 Disaster in Five Words
The Ontario government would like to blame the behaviour of Ontario’s citizens for this disaster implying somehow we are so much worse than the citizens of other countries, and even…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Anya Zoledziowski discusses how we’re only facing a third wave of COVID-19 due to avoidable political choices, while the Globe and Mail’s…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Mason writes that our leaders appear to have learned nothing as we face a third wave of COVID-19. Hasan Sheikh and Munir…
Locked down or locked up?
It feels like being kept after school because some one else broke the rules. It feels like a piling on of detentions. Now premier Doug Ford has added another four…
Picture That.
Ontario premier Ford likes to bring some back-up when he is doing a Covid-19 presentation. It was a surprise last weekend when one of the smirking faces in the conservative…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Julia Wong reports on the building third wave of COVID-19 in Alberta. And Ricardo Tranjan examines how little the Ford PCs actually put…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine, Cory Neudorf, Kyle Anderson and Alexander Wong each point out the desperate need for Saskatchewan to keep people healthy in…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bruce Arthur discusses how Doug Ford could prevent a third wave of COVID-19 in Ontario, but is choosing not to. John Michael McGrath…
Do we give Del Duca a chance?
Having never met Ontario liberal leader Steven Del Duca, I have not had much on which to base an opinion. All I know is that he never impressed me much…
Feeling the sting of Ford.
It reminds me of the story of the dog and the scorpion. “It’s my nature,” explains the scorpion before they both drown. In Ontario, we are seeing the nature of…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christo Aivalis rightly points out that the NDP needs to be a party of labour and fight to ensure workers’ needs are…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Taylor reports on the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s warning that we can’t afford to loosen the province’s COVID-19 rules – which of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kenyon Wallace reports on new modelling showing a real risk of yet another wave of COVID spread in Ontario – even as widespread…
‘Dougie did it!’
Mother did not like those words. The youngest of my brothers was Douglas. Of the six kids, he was mother’s pride and joy. She hated to hear the words, ‘Dougie…
Andrea Horwath has an easy job.
Other than being insulted occasionally by Ontario’s premier-in-training, the new democrat’s Andrea Horwath seems to enjoy her continuing role as leader of the opposition at Queen’s Park. The biggest complaint…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrea Reimer examines the power dynamics at play in government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the limits of formal political power…
The silence of Doug Ford’s lambs.
Sometime in the next couple months, the province of Ontario is expected to offer me the opportunity to get one or two jabs with a needle. This knowledge alone is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Karp writes about the connection between heavily polarized politics, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of people whose interests are…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jonah Brunet points out the wide variety of definitions of the term “lockdown” in response to COVID-19 – with imprecision in the meaning…