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…
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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…
The Day Doug Ford Was Made To Look Like An Ape
As we all know Doug Ford's mental capabilities reside somewhere in the twilight zone between Con man, and angry ape.So he's capable of saying and doing ANYTHING.Saying he's FOR THE…
‘Chuckles’ is Counting on Chaos.
Conservative leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer has reason to worry about the antics of Ontario premier Doug Ford. With less than five months to the scheduled October election, the conservative leader’s…
If it seems as if Canada’s Conservatives have lost it, guess again: They’ve just adopted the Trump playbook in its entirety
“Huge pothole on #StAlbert Trail right now! This is a preview of Canada’s future if Justin Trudeau is re-elected as prime minister, as he continues to implement his terrible anti-automobile…
Doug Ford’s Vacation and the Hidden Hand of Stephen Harper
When I heard that Doug Ford had decided to give himself and his government a five-month vacation until the federal election was over, I wasn't really surprised.I'd heard he'd found…
Man Overboard!
H/t Michael de Adder Sometimes, it is best to let nature take its course. Recommend this Post
Mixing ignorance and ideology in Ontario.
It’s a bad combination. Ignorance in itself is bad enough but in a mix with an ideology as strident as conservatism, it is simply bad government. It is a colonic…
Doug Ford’s Sad and Pathetic Anniversary
He is without a doubt the worst premier Ontario has ever known, a dumb Con beast who has disgraced himself over and over again.But as he prepares to celebrate his…
No Intervention for Doug Ford.
Those people who are promoting an intervention for premier Doug Ford’s beer bonanza are missing a few clues. First of all, an intervention is normally conducted by people who give…
Still here! (Sorta)
Its been awhile since I posted something here.. so I felt the need to add a blog entry to indicate I’m still alive. (If you read my twitter account at…
Opportunity calling Andrew Scheer.
For a guy who got his job by surprise, conservative leader Andrew Scheer MP is a happy camper. He can hardly believe it when public opinion polls show him defeating…
Is Alberta’s ‘Yes to TMX’ campaign a sly tax-funded attack on the Trudeau Liberals?
Things are certainly different on the pipeline front now that Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party are in power in Alberta! Yesterday, the airwaves were full of reports Alberta…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC examines the obscene corporate subsidies doled out by Canadian governments – with Alberta ranking as the worst offender even as it also…
B.C. Appeal Court’s Trans Mountain ruling may not be quite the slam-dunk Alberta thinks it is
The unanimous ruling Friday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the B.C. Government does not have the constitutional authority to control what goes inside the federally regulated Trans…
Fighting the facts of the future.
In a discussion of what is currently happening in politics, the realization emerged that provincial politicians such as Alberta’s Kenney, Saskatchewan’s Moe and Ontario’s Ford are denying our progeny a…
Exile on Mainstreet
So, that Mainstreet poll. On the one hand, I like its founder and the people who work there. My firm has used them in the past. When the Lavscam scandal…