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Don’t Be Fooled
Global News reports that in 2018 Doug Ford instructed his Environment Minister, Rod Phillips, to make environmental legislation ineffective: When Ontario Premier Doug Ford first took office in 2018, his…
Pause Conservative Governments Until We Can Figure Out What’s Going On
Smith on net-zero from 1½ years ago: Innovators can do net-zero!Politicians are too polarizing!Kenney spent too much time fighting the carbon tax! They don't understand how much the industry is…
Finally!
Finally … Ford blinked. All unions who had supported @fordnation during 2022 election, came out publicly in support of education workers & against Bill 28. Ontario was on verge of…
Today’s News: #TRE45ON is trending tonight
Here’s some cartoons I saw today about the Mar-A-Lago raid — the warrant and document lists are out, and its bad for Trump. Very bad. NBC has obtained the Mar-a-Lago…
Ontario, I Am Ashamed and Embarrassed
This morning, Ontario, I am ashamed of you. Ontario, you had an opportunity to do the right thing, and chose — deliberately chose — not to. I am ashamed and…
Right v. Left in Modern Politics
There’s a lot of palaver on social media about right v. left (or left v. right if you are so inclined), with webs of comments about the differences between these…
Ford Has Hamilton Police Arrest Peaceful Satirist Lawyer At His Campaign Rally
This is an example of police state behaviour, and Ford should be punished. First Doug Ford hides from the media, now his staff have them arrested. This should never happen…
Don’t Blame the Liberals
Risible rightwing piffle still circulates online about who is responsible for the rising costs of fuel and food. Conservatives and libertarians love to blame the Liberals, but that’s self-serving claptrap…
Plague Update: Hockey Canary
The Quebec Remparts are among five QMJHL teams forced to suspend team activities due to positive COVID-19 tests. https://t.co/mDZhsb4hrt — CBC News (@CBCNews) April 4, 2021 The WHL is carrying…
Plague Update: Moe & Ford, Worst Of Both Worlds
First of all, Doug Ford is a racist, incompetent, buffoon. Ontario NDP calls on Ford to apologize after wrongly accusing Indigenous MPP of vaccine queue-jumping https://t.co/vFyIUC6LeW — CBC Indigenous (@CBCIndigenous)…
Plague Update: Good News, Bad News
First, the bad news. The Conservatives in power in Alberta and Ontario are just the worst hypocrites. They told people not to travel, which was the correct advice, but then…
Plague Update: Ford’s Failings Match Every Conservative Province
Like many Conservative run provinces, Ontario is facing a slow motion disaster in the second wave. The stalwart “Resistance” Premiers, opposed to a carbon tax, also show their disdain for…
Whatever happened to conservatives?
It’s hard to believe these days, but in many nations, conservative political parties were once actually the defenders of the nation’s interests, of the greater good, of the public, and…
Conservatives Exceeding Election Spending Expectations
NEW: Elections Canada says it will monitor provincial government interventions in the federal campaign https://t.co/J8UfrINIlR #onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli — Marieke Walsh (@MariekeWalsh) June 13, 2019 What’s that mean? You’ve heard…
May 2019 Bits and Bites: Michele Tittler, the III%ers, Northern Guard and Robert Jones, and More
This is going to be long and disjointed. I'm also going to miss a lot of stories others are covering. Still, I thought it appropriate to provide a brief summary…
Stalin’s ghostly influence today
I recently finished reading the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s magisterial biography of Josef Stalin: About 1,700 pages so far, with another 400 or so in small-type notes. Brilliant stuff,…
Young People, Climate Change, Quebec
Have our old school (atrophied) political parties misjudged the issue of climate change? I think so. The worst part is that they haven’t merely shot themselves in the foot. They…
What We’re Up Against – The Gang That Would See Canada in Ruins.
It’s the cast of “The Gang of Thugs” premiering this fall.
Major Media White Washes Yellow Vests Movement and Convoy to Ottawa: Ignores Racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, and Misogyny Endemic to Reactionary Movement
On Tuesday last week, "The National" on CBC uncritically profiled the Yellow Vests movement and provided a forum for overt hate groups such as the former Nouns of Odin now…