Mr. Kenney, take back control of the damn tax!
It’s encouraging to hear someone in the upper reaches of the Canadian establishment recognize reality. Ruling on the appeal by Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan against the federal carbon tax, the…
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A Pox On All Their Houses
In the life of any Parliament, there are high points and low points of varying degrees. There are times when a party will take one position and then when they…
Dear Scott
Check out this letter to Scott Moe, Saskatchewan’s worst Premier. https://wp.me/p6xKTx-14i
“U.S. democracy is in urgent need of repair”—Freedom House
“After experiencing a gradual decline in respect for political rights and civil liberties over the past decade, the United States is now facing an acute crisis for democracy.” So says…
Stoicism and Slave Mentality
Stoicism is a sordid philosophy of grim forbearance in the face of a rigidly deterministic fatalism devoid of all agency or hope. People who have no hope gravitate to it,…
The Upholding of “Peace, Order and Good Government”
During the life of this current Parliament there have been a few things that have hung over the political players in Ottawa, awaiting resolution that would have a big impact…
True cost of hydro power?
Proponents of megaprojects routinely underestimate financial costs. After conducting an extensive study, top experts concluded this is caused by “strategic misrepresentation, that is, lying.” In addition, proponents invariably ignore environmental…
Covid Journal, March 24, 2021
What is ‘On Guard For Thee’ and what does it mean if further stay-in-place requirements are demanded of the public?
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Government Delays Recommended Restrictions
#ReginaCircuitbreaker now. SK Gov should be announcing tomorrow morning that people should go home tomorrow night, and stay there. But the government in this province is rife with corruption and…
A cautionary tale about Twitter
Last week, I got a notice from Twitter that I was ‘celebrating’ 12 years on the social media platform. What an accomplishment. Here are my Twitter stats after 12 years.…
Talking the Latest on the Two Michaels & the Conservative Convention 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 case of…
Talking the Trial of the Two Michaels & Erin O’Toole’s Convention Weekend on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the trail of the Two Michaels in…
Conservatives stumble over the big issue
Hanging over our heads is one overwhelming issue. It’s not the pandemic, and it’s not the economic disruption caused by the pandemic. It’s our rape of the planet, the most…
Winners and losers of the first COVID-19 year
How did this microscopic turd bring the world to its knees? So here we are, a full year into the Coronapocalypse. It has been (choose your favourite hackneyed phrase) a…
2020—A happy year?
2020 would seem to have been a tough year for happiness. But not for the Finns. Or for most of the rest of us for that matter. The World Happiness…
Conservatives Reject Reality
Sucks to be a country where the Official Opposition party rejects longstanding science that a grade school kid can understand. For ideological and economic reasons, the Conservative Party of Canada…
We are all in this together … including the billionaires
We are all in this together. An expression we hear a a lot these days. And rightly so, as we depend on government to relieve the millions of people and…
Plague Update: Health Min Lies
Without coincidence, Meriman used the word "stringent" today, totally casually. — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) March 18, 2021 10 months ago, Moe lied and said Rt would determine public health…
Make America fair again?
The United States is the most unequal of the advanced countries. By far. And it’s getting worse. The ratio of the average income of the richest 10 percent to the…
Conspiracy Theory Revisited
We should remember that the cult of authority, the cult of obedience, and the cult of conformity, are profoundly anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-empirical, and anti-democratic, as well as extremely dangerous. And…