This is war Ms. Wynne.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her so-called Liberal Party are having a love in down in Windsor today. They had better enjoy that group hug inside because the town of…
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The Hair harvests his hopes.
Canada’s prime minister must be quite happy these days. There is actually a world-wide glut of oil driving down the price of crude oil. The Hair has taken us to…
Entering the end game in municipal politics.
Political apparatchiks can get into endless arguments about how best to handle the end game in a municipal campaign. The key question is in setting priorities. You will never seem…
What price for your vote?
Step right up folks. The Conservative Party is ready to buy your vote. If you do not worm your way to the head of the line, you might miss out.…
We need more Irwin Cotler’s Mr. Trudeau.
Here we are losing one of the few intelligent and thinking parliamentarians left in Ottawa and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wants nebbishes to replace him. Trudeau is too wet behind…
Going-out-of-business sale at Queen’s Park.
There is a furniture store north of Toronto that has been holding going-out-of-business sales for at least the past two years. The store buys heavy flights of radio advertising on…
Tories work copyright from both sides.
It takes a while to get your mind around it. It seems the government party can use copyright material as they wish but the news media are not allowed to…
The EU can be hypocrites too.
The European Union has changed its mind and is allowing bitumen to be imported to European Union countries. Canada’s Suncor has recently announced that it has sent its first every…
Imploding media, a failure to communicate.
It takes a while to digest the sale the other day of Canada’s English-language Sun newspapers to Postmedia. All you can say for sure is that the newspaper market in…
Just days to a Ford-free Toronto.
Toronto has had bluster, BS and bad news for the past four years. There is light though in the distance. It is relief at the end of a long tunnel…
It’s High Noon for the Hair.
The Hair is strapping on his six-shooter, saying goodbye to the missus and heading to meet the bad guys on the noon train. He did not wait for the House…
Mediocrity is a step backward for democracy.
Now the Toronto Star is also trumpeting ranked ballots for municipal elections in Ontario. When Premier Wynne pulled the idea out of her hat the other day, the first reaction…
Rogers: An old song for a tired audience.
Hold tight Canada. You are about to be dazzled by the same people who have abused you before. You never learn do you? There is always another generation without the…
Democracy is not hurried for Premier Wynne.
In sending what she calls ‘mandate letters’ to her cabinet, Premier Kathleen Wynne has even sent one to herself as minister of intergovernmental affairs. It seems that she has finally…
The stateless state of ISIS.
How do you go to war with stateless brigands? How do you bomb the locations of thieves who move about usurping the homes and authority of people weakened with years…
Letting losers elect is no answer Ms. Wynne.
You have to love it when a politician decides to wing it and comes out with another really dumb idea. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne thinks that municipal voters can have…
PKP will be TNT for the PQ.
Pierre-Karl, known as PKP, scion of the Péladeau family wants to be leader of Quebec’s Parti Québécois. That is an absolutely excellent idea. It is an idea that will help…
As the horses are in the final turn.
This is stupid. The law has got to let us run a totalizator on the Toronto election. We could put it on the tote out at Woodbine when there are…
Looking for war in all the wrong places.
In Orwell’s novel 1984, Big Brother’s regime uses never ending far away wars to control the population. He makes war a critical component in sustaining the totalitarian regime. War is…
Barrie’s Brown hedges his bets.
While we have been known to refer to Barrie MP Patrick Brown as ‘that nebbish,’ his latest political ploy is the height of hypocrisy. He has good reason to worry…