Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Zoe Knowles for a rare Wednesday appearance. We talked about the first Trump-Biden Presidential Debate, the dumpster fire of…
Today is Orange Shirt Day, an important day on our collective calendar here in Canada. On this day we remember and honour the First Nations, Métis and Inuit children who…
I am a political animal and I normally really geek out on events like last night. Normally Presidential Debates in the United States are much watch TV, dignified events and…
Some Boomers are flipping the (snow)bird to the public; Shouldn’t public bailouts be treated like investments instead?
All those years ago when I earned my keep in the oil patch, I was fortunate to toil for Shell Canada. I was paid well, enjoyed generous benefits and excellent…
I didn’t intend on writing another piece tonight, but we had a bit of an interesting development in our household this evening that made it necessary to write one last…
Having worked in politics for close to a decade and having worked over a dozen campaigns in the last 15 or so years, it gets hard to shock me anymore…
It amazes me how sometimes a few little pieces of information that could seem completely unrelated can help to tie a story together. It was just yesterday here at this…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the newest COVID-19 numbers in Ontario,…
BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson today announced a plan to completely eliminate the provincial sales tax (currently 7%) for 1 year, and then cut it by 4 points (or 57%)…
As someone who has worked over a dozen political campaigns at all levels in his life, I am a self-professed campaign nerd. I am always interested in seeing how campaigns…
Here we are, at the end of September 2020. It’s been over six months that we’ve been in this fight against COVID-19 and really there is no light at the…
Ms Soapbox is working on a project that will keep her busy for the next couple of weeks. Rather than allow The Soapbox, a virtual Speakers’ Corner, to fall silent,…
Tesla doesn’t make money building cars. They make a little money on energy generation. However, as Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times pointed out during our COVID summer,…
As a committed democrat, I would dearly love to be able to convince doubters of democracy’s superiority by pointing to its leaders. And in the past that has often been…
We live in times that few very fraught with danger, more so than usual. We’re seeing things happening on our TV screens, in the news and sometimes right in front…
Republicans are believing Trump’s lies. They’re accepting dictatorship.
There have been many things about the last few weeks in our COVID-19 world have been difficult. We’re seeing cases rise across the country, we’re starting to see some schools…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for a special Wednesday “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the Speech from the…
Big Exodus from Big Tech
Time for the exodus to begin in earnest from the now confirmed to be fascist and deeply Orwellian Big Tech giants. At the least, we need to begin the migration…