The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: An Apology Too Late?
In the past two weeks we’ve seen some interesting developments in the case of Senator Lynn Beyak and the calls for her to be removed from her seat in the…
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Greta and Family Struggled
An amazing journey from a very sick kid, to a world leader: "She has succeeded. Some say that she alone has done more for the climate than politicians and the…
Reflections On Stillness & Action
We need stillness and action – both, and urgently so. This should be becoming perfectly clear. I’ve travelled through 20 countries, but still I find stillness the greatest adventure, and…
The Rail Detour
Over the last few weeks as Canada has been dealing with the fallout from the Wet’suwet’en protests, we have seen a lot of political leaders doing the opposite of what…
Talking Alberta Court Carbon Tax Decision & Wet’suwet’en Protests with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked the breaking news on the Carbon Tax…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: An Official Hometown Shunning?
Last week I was happy to share with everyone here a great development from Northwestern Ontario regarding Senator Lynn Beyak and the calls for her to be removed. Last week…
Talking Wet’suwet’en Protests, Teck Frontier & CoronaVirus on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
After a two week break, this morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We had a conversation…
The Frontier Dilemma
There are some people in certain professions I’ve always had some empathy for, and one of those is sports reporters. The reason for that empathy is pretty simple and straightforward;…
Papa Troll
This guy was almost PM. Stockwell Day wasn't enough of a scare to dissuade Con voters from wasting a decade with Harper. What fresh hell awaits following Scheer?#cdnpoli https://t.co/JMembtaJG6 —…
Canada Humiliated by International Scientific Community
Forty Nobel winners are asking the Canadian government to put an end to the proposed Teck mine. You should too by filling out the petition.
“Nothing to See Here”
Looking around Canada this week at the Federal and Provincial levels, you’d be hard pressed to find any leader having a good week. It’s just been a lot of bad,…
Hate speech ≠ free speech.
Hate speech ≠ free speech
Buffalo Leap
This has been a crazy couple of weeks in our politics and let’s face it, we’re in a very fraught time. There are lots of tensions out there, lots of…
Shuttles: Filling Gaps in Transit
I love this story. I know … I’m such a ‘transit nerd’. (Is there such a thing?). Here are just some top-level reasons why: Smaller vehicles = less costly vehicles…
An Historic Coalition in the Making?
It’s interesting how life can be at times. Lately it seems that everyday I go to drive home from work, something big happens during the two hours it takes me…
Failures of Leadership
As someone who has long been a big believer in the role of our Parliament & the responsibilities that those who serve there have to everyone in this country, this…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: Municipal Leaders Push Back
With the way that things have been moving in Canadian politics in the past week, it feels like it’s been ages since I last wrote about the disgraceful Senator Lynn…
Thomas Jefferson, Ursula Le Guin, and Collective Rebirth
Reading a novel by Ursula Le Guin, I think, not only is she a joy to read, in so many ways, but she refused to give in to a…
“A Place to Glow”
When Ontarians elected the Doug Ford Conservatives to government close to two years ago, the province chose to move in a different direction. You can debate or disagree with the…
Not all pipelines are created equal.
It would appear there are questions about pipelines that are dividing this country. They are dividing people, they are dividing scientists, they are dividing concerned environmentalists. The only problem is…