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…
Ontario politics
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,…
Is Resistance Always Futile?
If I ever had the chance to sit down and chat with Randy Hillier, I doubt I would have much to say to the libertarian Progressive Conservative MPP recently permanently…
Your Wednesday (Rueful) Smile
If you have been following Ontario politics lately, you will probably appreciate the latest from Theo Moudakis: Meanwhile, Brad Blair, the OPP whistle blower, calls his firing a reprisal by…
Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth the Ford
In almost biblical fashion, Premier Doug Ford has smote his enemy, aided and abetted by the OPP union. Brad Blair, the OPP whistleblower who complained loudly and very publicly about…
A Cowardly Silence
Human nature is a strange, wondrous, and sometimes shameful thing. For every Nelson Mandela who takes a stand against arbitrary authority, there are countless millions who will simply go along…
Far Less Than Meets The Eye
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly;…
The Death Of My Electoral Reform Idealism
Perhaps one of the most over-analyzed and oft-criticized campaign promises the Liberals broke from the 2015 campaign was the one on electoral reform – that the 2015 vote would be…
Doug Ford backs down on attacking Greenbelt protections.
It appears that there was a lot of blowback to this plan over the Christmas holidays to Conservative MPP’s. Good – it was a terrible idea: The Ford government is…
Brian Topp, NDP strategist who led Rachel Notley’s 2015 war room, describes what Jagmeet Singh must do this year to win
With a federal election looming this fall, mainstream pundits have already written off the federal New Democratic Party and its leader, Jagmeet Singh, relegating Mr. Singh to history’s discard bin…
What They Don’t Know Can Hurt Us All
My good friend Dave, who lives in Winnipeg, has a very keen mind and makes it a steady practice to be well-informed about public matters. Consequently, at times he is…
What Is An Authoritarian Bully To Do?
It is perhaps to state the obvious that political strongmen (I’m sure this applies to women, too) tend to surround themselves with those who will readily do their bidding. It…
Which Will It Be, Apathy Or Outrage?
In my previous post about the Doug Ford OPP scandal, I wondered if people are still capable of collective outrage. It is a concern shared by The Star’s Martin Regg…
Backroom Dealer Doug Meets With Resistance
Doug ‘Backroom Dealer‘ Ford, the buffoon currently occupying Ontario’s premier’s office, is likely surprised that his appointment of personal pal Ron Taverner, one that reeks of cronyism and corruption, is…
The High Price Of Willful Ignorance
The other day I wrote a post entitled The Cost of Disengagement. Today’s post might be considered a companion piece, inasmuch as disengagement and ignorance often go hand-in-hand. And sadly,…
The Cost Of Disengagement
I have reached a point in my life where I hold out little hope for our collective future. It is one of the reasons I post less frequently these days.…
Ontario Conservatives present a “climate change plan” that has been shown to fail.
A follow-up to my last post: The Ontario Conservative government has finally presented its plan for mitigating climate change. No carbon tax! No cap and trade! Sounds great.. until you…