Green Bolt
We’re full on into silly season in the House of Commons, which is normal for every year this time of year. But when you add COVID and a pending Fall…
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Notwithstanding This Crap
It’s been a rough three years in Ontario, and that’s before you factor in the hellish 15 months, we’ve had with the COVID pandemic. The one constant in all of…
Back to the Start in Alberta
It was just a couple of months ago that I wrote a piece here about Alberta UCP Premier Jason Kenney and his fall in his province. As I put it…
You owe us an explanation, Mr. O’Toole
In a recent letter to the prime minister (which he gratuitously tweeted to the general public), Conservative leader Erin O’Toole had this to say about the proposed global tax agreement:…
Covid Journal, June 8, 2021
During what I feel are ‘post-Covid’ times, a lot of people are doing a very poor job of being good humans: racists in London, ON; loggers of our legacy in…
Talking Ontario’s Re-Opening Plan with Andrew Pinsent
Yesterday I joined Andrew Pinsent on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Ontario’s Re-Opening Plan, the move to re-open…
Will Kenney’s woes help O’Toole?
How the mighty have fallen. Just two years ago, Jason Kenney, flush from a convincing election win over the NDP, was the Conservatives’ golden boy. Even the national leader had…
MB Podcast – Interview with Hon. Joe Jordan
The latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, I interview the former MP for Leeds-Grenville, Hon. Joe Jordan. We talk about the current state…
Failure to Practice What You Preach
In talking and writing about the discovery in Kamloops this week, I’ve tried to make a point that while I hope for better and for those responsible for those institutions…
Canada: home of the world’s most flexible constitution
Is Canada a country? Yes, I know Canada is a country in the land-mass sense of the word. You really can’t miss Canada on a map. It’s that massive slab…
Rebooting Canada, eh!
Tax the rich. That would be a good start. Close the loopholes, implement capital flight controls, tax financial speculation, tax the richest 1% and the large, profitable corporations, along with…
Rethinking Education
Chomsky is right: in the Western world, what we call our “education” system, is in practice a system of indoctrination. This is its primary result, regardless of good intentions or…
Oh, Canada
Loyal subjects: that is what we have been trained to be – first to the British Empire, then to the American Empire, and now, to Beijing and the global coporate…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast Season 3 Episode 1 – Reconciliation and Closure
After some time away, the Magpie Brûlé is back with a new season. In this episode, I go into the news of the past week from Kamloops, the reaction nation…
Hinting Towards #ELXN44
For months now media, pundits and many Canadians have been speculating about when the next Federal Election may come. Some thought it would have come already, pinning their bets on…
Graduating to a New Level of Confusion
Yesterday in Ontario we got some big news about the state of our fight against COVID and one part in particular; schools. Schools in most of the province have been…
Leashing the corporations with the Biden tax
There was a period following WWII when we approached utopia. Well, OK, maybe that’s overstating it, but we had created probably the finest society, in terms of the economic welfare…
Cost Of A Child’s Coffin In Canada
I used to know how much a child’s casket cost because we had to fund raise so often for burials. https://t.co/OTh4zStsLy — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst) June 1, 2021 “There Are…
The Moment for Action
It’s been almost a week since news broke in the media of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in an unmark, mass grave on the grounds of the…
The Curious Case of the Magna Carta and the Covidiot Footballer
This has been a hard week mentally and emotionally for a lot of us, and I have to admit that it’s wearing on me. If you’ve heard some of my…