Ontario politics
If You Follow Ontario Politics
… this requires no explanation: H/t Patrick Corrigan If you need a bit of a primer, however, allow me to introduce the chief sheep: We think it’s only fair that…
Shameful Self-Abasement
The Toronto Star reports that there has been a furious social media backlash against shameful propaganda displays like the following, as the Ontario government seeks to break a 10-year-deal with…
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…
UPDATED: You’re A Mean One, Mr. Ford
In a move that will surely swell the tiny hearts beating within the breast of Ford Nation, the Ontario government is eliminating a benefit that helps children of the poor,…
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…
The Kindest Cut Of All?
Given the butcher’s blade Doug Ford and his trained seals are taking to crucial services and programs in Ontario, perhaps the following best reflects the widespread disenchantment people are expressing…
A Crazed Autocrat
Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,For goodness dare not check thee. – Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3 H/t Patrick Corrigan The above quote from Macbeth, along…
How Supple Are They?
I hope, for the sake of their well-being, that each loyal soldier in the Doug Ford regime has a gym membership they regularly use. Otherwise, I fear they will sustain…
Tory is the best Grit
Here’s a poll that will rock Toronto and Ontario politics. And it is not a bad idea. At all. Full story here. It could take a Tory to topple the…
The Unkindest Cut Of All
Devolution. Debasement. Depraved Indifference. Apply whatever term you like, but the cuts coming furiously from the Ford government in Ontario surely bespeak a state that no ruling body, and by…
Well, Well, Well
For someone who is ‘for the people,” Doug Ford has a strange way of showing his fealty to them. Buried in last week’s budget bill is a nugget that will…
Henhouse Alert
Welcome to Ontario, A Place To Grow and Open For Business. Depending upon whether you are a private driver or a commercial operator, you will soon be sporting one of…
More About Bread And Circuses
I expressed concerns in yesterday’s post about the cheap, diversionary tactics being employed by Doug Ford to distract the masses as he goes about systematically gutting the programs that make…
Toga Party, Anyone?
The Romans were well-known for their embrace of bread and circuses. Indeed, an excerpt from Wikipedia sums it all up rather nicely: In a political context, the phrase means to…
Roadmap To Ruin
Heading up Toronto’s Bay Street yesterday en route to the massive gathering at Queen’s Park to protest the savage surgery the Ford regime is conducting on public education was something…
Christine Elliott’s Debasement
There was a time I had a measure of respect for Christine Elliott. She seemed to me to be someone largely above the toxic politics that now ensnares public discourse…
Judged And Found Wanting
If the true measure of a society is to be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members, Ontario, under the Doug Ford regime, and all those who voted…
A Very Pungent Odour
H/t Theo Moudakis The source of that pervasive and rank smell bedeviling Ontario has been found. It is coming from an array of spineless politicians in the Ford government who,…