The one in short pants is from Barrie.
This is embarrassing. The Member of Parliament from Barrie is running for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party. Or maybe not! If anything, the greedy chap is just seeking…
Provincial Politics
Why would Wynne shy from sex education?
Back when sex education was first taught in Ontario schools there was always a lot of giggling and barely suppressed laughter from the back of the room. The kids up…
Selling Ontario services to the world’s wealthy.
It started with education. For many years community colleges and universities in Ontario and across Canada have been selling education to the children of wealthy parents in foreign countries. This…
The baffling Beer Store battle.
Maybe Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne does not like beer. Sometimes when you get together over a bottle or so of beer, you can solve this type of problem. It simply…
Is Ontario Doug Ford’s next campaign?
Former Toronto mayoralty candidate Doug Ford says he might want to go on to fame as leader of the Ontario Conservatives. This is serious folks. Doug Ford is the guy…
Wynne wins in Toronto shoot-out.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne pulled it off. She got her candidate into the mayor’s chair in Toronto. Despite disturbing early tabulations, John Tory emerged as the peoples’ choice for mayor.…
Liberals are progressives Ms. Wynne.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne needs to check her dictionary. She needs to understand the definition of the word ‘liberal.’ Oxford says it best. In politics it means “favourable to democratic…
Meaningless measuring for meaningless media.
When you take a poll to help sell newspapers, how serious can you be? Does the poll even matter if it restates the obvious? It is giving the entire business…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ontario sucks and blows on gaming.
When it comes to gaming, the Wynne government in Ontario definitely sucks! According to a confusing op-ed in the Toronto Star Monday by former McGuinty cabinet member Michael Bryant, he…
Quebec is not Scotland.
A week from now we will have the results of a close referendum in Scotland. And the ‘No’ side is worried. Sorry guys, it is too late now to recognize…
Our democracy is bent, not broken.
It is like a whack-a-mole game. Every time you think you have settled the ignorance of one person proposing proportional representation, another pops up like an unwelcome termite in your…
Publicity 101: Make each announcement different.
Ontario Infrastructure Minister Brad Duguid must have missed the class on publicity that said change the story line when you make the same announcement for the third time. He got…
But when does the PC contest begin?
We are missing some fun here. Sure MPP Christine Elliott is going to run for the Ontario Conservative leadership. That is not a race, it is a leisurely walk. We…