What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – The Return of Parliament
Yesterday I was happy to record the latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Susan Smith, Tim Barber and Neil Brodie.…
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Another Albertan’s reaction to President Biden’s climate announcements
When I read about U.S. President Biden’s first steps down the climate change path he intends to follow, I was delighted, primarily because of his stated intention to rejoin the…
Freedom Is Fundamental
There is a great deal of noise and commotion, fighting and fussing, conflict and division, in many areas and many regards, over how people should live. Valuing freedom, in practice…
Hunting for Bad Legislation
Having worked on Parliament Hill for close to a decade, I have to admit that there are certain things that always seem to pique my interest in our political world.…
#Petrostate of the Province
You know you live in a #petrostate when local city council exec votes to restrict fossil fuel sponsorship and 1) the Premier threatens the City’s budget and 2) the official…
Covid Journal, January 21, 2021
Celebrating a new chapter for American politics.
The Death of Science
Big business and the billionaire oligarchs are now taking over science, after having already taken over the global economy, the financial system and money creation, almost all governments, and all…
How Flawed A Leg
If the Sask Party split off a few MLAs to form a secondary Con party, they could fill the Official Opposition role also. This might put the NDP at an…
Plague Update: Plague Of Pipelines
We have Canada's worst COVID handling, where's the Premier on that? — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) January 18, 2021 With Biden apparently poised to pause KXL into oblivion, Saskatchewan’s hapless…
Talking the Enforcement of COVID-19 Rules with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about how the enforcement of new COVID-19…
#CPCRacists Attempt To Slink From The Republican Stink
The CPC leader insists that his party isn’t courting the far right, after a disastrous month for the Republicans as they lost control of the Senate by losing 2 runoff…
Can you buy guilt for a nickel? Some charities think so
Question: if you saw this on the ground, would you even bother to pick it up? Last week, I got a nickel in the mail. Yes, a whole nickel. Where…
Talking Pipeline Politics & Erin O’Toole and the Far Right 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 Lisa Kirbie. We discussed media reports about the impending cancellation of…
Trump Loots White House, Stealing Jokes
Seth’s team figured it would be a joke if they suggested Trump would brazenly take things out of the White House, but it appeared to happen the same day, which…
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Takes Infection Lead With “Personal Responsibility”
If you hear someone talking about “personal responsibility” to get us out of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re gaslighting you. There’s no reasonable expectation that individuals acting responsibly can end the…
Cory’s 20th Blogiversary Cake With FBI Icing
Notable author and blogger Cory Doctorow got a call from the FBI for his blog anniversary. Yes, it's harassment, and the FBI enabled it by not doing some investigating to…
Democracy and mass delusion
I have always been intrigued by people’s tendency to believe what they want to believe rather than what the facts are telling them, to believe what their innate biases desire…
They Want It All
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” So says Davos founder and oligarch-in-chief, what’s his name….Vlad the Impaler? No, wait…Klaus Schwabb. In any event, you’ll own nothing, while the billionaires…
Covid Journal, January 15, 2021
Ford brings in a lockdown, treating us like prisoners, not providing enough direction for us to know if we’ll be punished for simply … living. Selfish snowbirds: what to do?…
Why the Liberal Party is Losing the Youth Vote
Many of us voted for Trudeau, giving him a majority government for four years. But since his 2015 legalization promise, Justin Trudeau has done little to help the generation that…