Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford calls out corporate apologists for blaming workers for deteriorating working conditions and stagnant wages which have resulted from deliberate policy choices:…
Doug Ford
More Bad News For Doug Ford And Andrew Scheer
In my last post I looked at a new poll that suggested that 60 per cent of people in Ontario now believe that Doug Ford's government is corrupt.And how the…
A house divided or a leaderless nation?
There was an excellent discussion in Progressive Bloggers the other day by the gentleman who writes under the nom de plume of The Mound of Sound. A very small quibble…
Andrew Scheer’s Big Ford Corruption Problem
I don't like to brag, but even before he became Premier I predicted that Doug Ford would lead his government into the swamp of corruption.There was just something about him…
OK, he said nothing new, but why did Justin Trudeau’s pipeline presser make Conservatives so angry?
Conservatives’ faux shock at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s relatively news free pipeline construction announcement in Edmonton last week was a thing to behold. The tone generally was, “there oughtta be…
Cowboys and Politicians
It’s the last day of the Calgary Stampede. It’s also the last day for politicians to dress up as cowboys for one last photo-op before getting back to business of…
When Premiers come out to play.
It was an interesting pack of premiers around the conference table at this year’s Canadian premiers’ meeting. They hardly had Justin Trudeau under their thumb. And they hardly bothered to…
Do-Gooders be Damned.
Why do these do-gooders settle for half measures? If the medical officer of health for Toronto has decided that booze is bad for you, why is she allowing any sales…
Doug Ford, Jason Kenney And The Con Dictator’s Club
They are two of the most disgusting politicians this country has ever known, but their love for each other knows no bounds.They are both climate change deniers who are willing…
Dimples? Simple
Dimples. That’s what you actually get some Trudeau trolls nattering about online: Andrew Scheer’s dimples. Seriously. For some reason beyond the understanding of sane people, the Trudeaupian types think that…
Andrew Scheer and the Curse of Doug Ford
I see Andrew Scheer has been playing cowboy, and flipping pancakes at the Calgary Stampede.And although I'm sure Scheer was happy to be half a continent away from Doug Ford…
With Stephen Mandel’s resignation and zero Legislature seats, Alberta Party faces leadership vacuum and bleak future
So long, Stephen Mandel, at least we can’t say we hardly knew ye! Mr. Mandel announced in a news release yesterday he would step down on June 30 as leader…
The Star soldiers on with Regg Cohn.
The Toronto Star must have made its provincial affairs writer Martin Regg Cohn point man for the newspaper’s war against demon rum. Ontario used to have the Woman’s Christian Temperance…
‘Chuckles’ challenges consensus.
There will be no apology for calling federal conservative leader Andrew Scheer, Chuckles. He practically giggled his way through a ten-minute on-air version of an interview with Mercedes Stephenson on…
Keep your enemies close.
Ontario premier Doug Ford has found out that shuffling cabinet members is more difficult than the original creation of the cabinet. He not only has to deal with broken promises…
Andrew Scheer, Doug Ford, and the Con Assault on Medicare
I still like that bobble-headed Andrew Scheer ad. It still makes me laugh.But I do have one small problem with it.It does make Scheer look like a bumbling weakling, a…
If you paint a pig green?
The question is if you paint a pig green would it no longer roll in the mud? And if we are concerned about the environment, should we vote for a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nick Hanauer discusses the futility of “educationism” which treats schools as the only factor in social outcomes without recognizing the importance of inequality…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Heather Mallick discusses the pattern of right-wing governments obsessing over undoing the good done by their predecessors, rather than paying the slightest…