All this Catholic-school business reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment
I'm sorry, I just can't help it sometimes.It's probably not the most famous or best-remembered scene from Blazing Saddles (and in truth, it's got a lot of competition), but in…
Ontario politics
The Catholic school system needs to get its hands out of our pockets
And that's just for starters.The travesty that took place this week is common knowledge by now. Activist Leanne Iskander, who's got more courage in her little finger than most people…
Uproar over Uploading
The recent Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference presented a golden opportunity for Provincial candidates to make their pitch to just about every municipal government leader in the province.…
Uproar over Uploading
The recent Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference presented a golden opportunity for Provincial candidates to make their pitch to just about every municipal government leader in the province.…
Uproar over Uploading
The recent Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference presented a golden opportunity for Provincial candidates to make their pitch to just about every municipal government leader in the province.…
Uproar over Uploading
The recent Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference presented a golden opportunity for Provincial candidates to make their pitch to just about every municipal government leader in the province.…
Enter early and often!
The Toronto Library Worker's Union is sponsoring a contest to show how much people love the library after braying philistine Doug "Tweedledum" Ford suggested close a bunch of them or…
Mammoliti will protect our precious bodily fluids
Toronto city councillor George "Giorgio" Mammoliti (he changed his name in 2002 from English to Italian to better reflect his desire to suck up to immigrant voters in his ward…
Sometimes they just make this too easy
Yesterday, the Toronto Sun asked readers to suggest three "quick fix" ideas for things that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford could do right away to make Toronto a better city. Well,…
Tim Hudak – Too wishy washy to lead Ontario?
Tim Hudak wants to be the next Premier of Ontario, desperately so by all appearances. Canada is caught up in something of a Conservative wave right now, and Hudak looks…
The Politics of Wind Power: Liberals look to ‘John Tory’ Tim Hudak
The Ontario Liberals sent a message to the future this week: it warned Conservative Premier Tim Hudak that if he wants to keep his absurd, long-standing promise to put a…
GPO answers AMO’s call for a comprehensive waste strategy
On June 30th, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario issued a press release that challenged all political parties in Ontario “to demonstrate how they will support waste diversion strategies that…
Long-term thinking needed in the fight for Ontario’s Green Energy future
While in Vancouver last week as part of a First Ministers meeting, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty made a direct link between subsidies paid out to the oil and gas industry…
Ontario and Equalization Payments: ‘have-not’ actually means ‘has-no-oil’
In the two years since Ontario officially joined the ranks of the ‘have-not’ provinces, the volume of equalization payments received has jumped 534%. That’s right – 534%. From the first…
AMO targets Tim Hudak over ‘eco-fee shell game’
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) issued a press release yesterday afternoon attacking Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak over his – and his caucus’s – confusion regarding eco fees.…
Hudak’s Harris-like approach
In case you missed it, the Ontario Progressive Conservative party had a convention this weekend. There was a lot of, shall we say, extraneous stuff that was going on that…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing. Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing. Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing. Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing.Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing better…