Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Parkin discusses the distinction between giveaways to the rich which are perpetually seen as carrying no price, and the expansion of…
Doug Ford
Ontario PC’s Running The Largest Deficit Projections in Current Platform
Mike Moffatt who is a director an the independent think tank Canada 2020, and an associate professor at the Ivey Business School, has come up with an interesting post comparing…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. -The UK’s Association of Directors of Public Health speaks out (PDF) about the importance of giving children the best possible start in life –…
Those Star Letter-Writers
They never disappoint. They can spot a shyster a mile away. It’s sad that Doug Ford’s solution to the high cost of gas is to reduce the gas tax. A…
Mixing baloney and beer.
People in Ontario are starting to laugh over the desperate efforts of conservative leader Doug Ford to promise voters anything to vote for him. It took him until halfway through…
Andrea Horwath is going to win Ontario on June 7 – that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it!
Happy Victoria Day! I’m feeling good about my prediction that the next Premier of Ontario will be Andrea Horwath. When I made that prediction back on Feb. 27, scads of…
Doug Ford Likely To Support Ontario as a Sanctuary Province If Elected
There has been a lot of hyperbole recently over the NDP Platform to make Ontario a sanctuary province by registered third party PC activists Ontario Proud. These activists are blatantly…
NDP and PC’s Neck and Neck as Millennials Engage
The latest poll from Abacus shows that the PC’s and NDP are now neck in neck with Ontario voters. The PC’s lead seems to have evaporated, and the progressive vote…
The Slow Collapse of the Doug Ford Campaign
Doug Ford is still trying to buy votes, and is now promising to sell beer and wine on every street corner.No doubt to try to make people forget that he…
See Doug. See Doug Run.
Bullies, con artists and cowards all have something in common: they live in fear that they will be exposed for what they are – weak, manipulative people who try to…
We are not ready to surrender.
What are we coming to? When fair weather warriors are conceding defeat, are we all supposed to lay down our arms? I have been involved in too many comebacks to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot discusses the dangers of treating our natural environment solely as something to be priced and commodified. – The Mound of Sound…
Mother’s magic money.
Listening to Ontario conservative leader Doug Ford recently reminded me of my early childhood in Toronto. Doug Ford never seems to worry about where the money for his promises will…
The Morning Line: Ontario’s dilemma.
This is probably the most difficult Morning Line Babel-on-the-Bay has produced in ten years. It might just be the one that besmirches our reputation. The question in this election are…
Three-ring circus versus horse race.
Whatever you want to say about the Ontario election that is going on now, it could never have been a three-ring circus production by P.T. Barnum or his partner James…
How Self-Aware Are We, Really?
My cynicism is never far from the surface, but during election campaigns, it is front and centre. For me, those are times in which my faith and belief in my…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Equality Trust highlights the perpetual concentration of wealth among an extremely privileged few in the UK. LOLGOP points out how U.S. Republicans…
The Many Similarities Between Doug Ford and Donald Trump
As I predicted before the campaign began, Doug Ford's Team Harper handlers are trying to muzzle him.Or at least restrict media access to him, just like they did with their…
The Opera ain’t over.
First off today, we want to apologize. We have been thoroughly castigated by family and readers for being rude to Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath the other day. I sincerely…