Coming Apart at the Seams at Queen’s Park?
Tomorrow the eyes of political Canada are ready to be fixed on Ottawa, with the presentation of the first Federal Budget in over two years. With all the implications for…
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Sorry, Ernest, but I just don’t get you
While scrolling through the TV listings last week (I spent almost as much time looking for something to watch as actually watching), I came upon a new Ken Burns documentary…
Covid Journal, April 18, 2021
The last few days have not been good for Ontario, especially Doug Ford. On the federal level, the Liberals have been labeled the ‘most anti-internet government in Canadian history’.
The Voices Not Listened To
For many of us in Ontario, yesterday was a very intense day. Or at least the evening after 4 pm EST was. The counterproductive moves announced by the Ford Government…
O’Toole re-sets on climate change
It’s taken a while but finally Erin O’Toole has a climate change policy to present to the voters. The most intriguing bit is his acceptance of the need for a…
The Madness of Nietzsche
Nietzsche was either terribly misinterpreted, as my dearly departed scholar brother was adamant to say, or he was simply mad his entire life, and his philosophy was a philosophy of…
Media literacy 101, Redux
Omg he is citing the National Post! That’s a right wing newspaper! They say, pouring over their daily ingestion of the now truly extreme right wing, corporate oligarchy-driven mainstream “liberal”…
Enlightenment Today: by The New Dr. Pangloss
It is amazing to hear such a mish-mash from two intelligent and seemingly well-read individuals. I used to like them both, Steven Pinker and Stephen Fry, (video linked below) and…
The Plot, Completely Lost
It’s Friday, the weather is supposed to be nice this weekend and this should be a time that most of us de-stress, relax and try to put the stresses of…
Saskatchewan Party Produces Pollution
Back in 2012, there was a problem: Provincial water too polluted, says research Back then, the SaskParty was promising to address climate change with a plan that included a 20%…
Zoning and Official Community Plans, worthwhile until they’re not
Home buyers make property choices based on municipal zoning and Official Community Plans. Provincially mandated OCPs are “a statement of objectives and policies that guide decisions on municipal and regional…
Survey of Western powers points toward citizens’ assemblies
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center of the four major Western powers turned up some interesting if not altogether surprising results. The goal of the study was to…
The O’Toole “Lose-Lose-Lose” Policy on Carbon Pricing
It’s only been a few weeks since one of the biggest shoes to drop in Canadian politics finally came down. On March 25th, the Supreme Court upheld the Liberals Carbon…
Abandoned Cars Revived
Part 3: Rich Rebuilds is another really interesting vehicle repair channel. He’s got great embedded ads too.
What Tapper Giveth, Tapper Taketh Away
We Canadians can be an interesting bunch and it surprises me sometimes how certain things ruffle our feathers more than others. My former colleague on the Hill Lauren Dobson-Hughes wrote…
Silly Saskatchewan Party
EVs are not getting a free ride on the roads. A look through Saskatchewan budget documents shows clearly that the amounts spent annually to maintain highways far exceed what’s collected…
From Sunny Ways to a Dark Day
Having spent a decade on Parliament Hill, there are times when one might think that I’ve seen it all. Sure there are a lot of ugly things I’ve seen along…
Talking the Moving of Schools Online in Ontario with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest on the third wave…
I’ll miss the mayor
I was surprised when Naheed Nenshi won Calgary’s mayoral race in 2010. The odds-on favourite, a well-known alderman, had been running for years and, due to his popularity with developers,…
A Year Late to the Fight?
For the past thirteen months we, as a nation, have been doing our best to fight back against COVID-19. Sometimes those efforts have worked, other times not so much, but…