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kirbycairo: The White House Inc. (a division of Trump Enterprises) . . .

Feb

10

2017

I think that one of the most fascinating aspects of the Trump presidency thus far is the general confusion that is generated by the blurring of lines between the private and the public (or one might say “strictly” political) aspects of the Trump White House. I think that many mainstream politicos (in both parties) assumed ...

Warren Kinsella: SFH and others, February 23!

Feb

10

2017

Come to the show! Get your very own DONALD TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE T-shirt! Get SFH merch thrown in! Tell me, to my face, how much you hate my politics! Meet the Lisa Kinsella!

Warren Kinsella: Advance look at next week’s Trudeau Trump summit

Feb

10

2017

[From next week’s column. The scene: the Oval Office. Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have just completed their photo-op in the Rose Garden. Gerald Butts and Steve Bannon are present to take notes.] Trump [Dismissive]: So the Brits cancelled my state visit over there. Would’ve been huge. Huge. When is Canada inviting me to speak ...

Northern Reflections: L’Etat C’est Donald

Feb

10

2017

The Trump administration is only three weeks old, but already its character is easy to define. It’s all Donald, all the time. Paul Krugman writes: It’s already clear that any hopes that Mr. Trump and those around him would be even slightly ennobled by the responsibilities of office were foolish. Every day brings further evidence ...

Eh Types: O’Leary Can’t Lead The Conservatives, And They Know It

Feb

10

2017

When the Conservative party elects a new leader, it will be an important decision for the party’s future. Should the membership decide that reality TV star Kevin O’Leary is the best choice to carry the party forward, they will have to contend with the party’s own past. Attack ads against O’Leary have already been written, ...

Warren Kinsella: Trump TV times: terrific

Feb

10

2017

I was on TV three times yesterday, which was a bit weird. The first time was over at CTV News, to talk about the top Trudeau ministers heading to Washington to, in effect, walk softly and carry a bigly stick. The government was finally heeding Canadians – and those of us – who wanted to ...

Blunt Objects Blog: "Do you think Kellie Leitch should have her own party?"

Feb

10

2017

Such were the words of the illustrious Prime Minister of Canada and erstwhile leader of my Liberal Party, defending his government’s failure to move on the electoral reform file from an upset constituent. It’s probably one of the most inane, cynical, and downright silly things PMJT has ever said – and he’s said a lot ...

Babel-on-the-Bay: We all need editors.

Feb

10

2017

Wandering through the web site called Progressive Bloggers the other day, we found a writer who inadvertently referred to a clique as a ‘click.’ That is one way to get noticed! It happens to all of us though as we keyboard our frustrations without the aid of that second look. That particular blog needed more ...

Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Classical Music Interlude – Mussorgsky – Night On the Bare Mountain

Feb

10

2017

Night on Bald Mountain (Russian: Ночь на лысой горе, Noch′ na lysoy gore), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a “musical picture”, St. John’s Eve on Bald Mountain (Russian: Иванова ночь на лысой горе, Ivanova ...

Montreal Simon: Samantha Bee On The Original Trump Haters

Feb

10

2017

Scotland is a small, peaceful country, but one with a proud history of resistance dating back about two thousand years.The people of that land have had to battle all kinds of invaders, from the Roman legions of the Emperor Hadrian, to in more modern times, the vulgar presence of the mad would be Emperor Donald Trump.So ...

Montreal Simon: Rona Ambrose and the Pit of Hypocrisy

Feb

10

2017

The other day I said that I had been struck by the strange way Rona Ambrose had been behaving. How she had practically gone to ground.After accusing Justin Trudeau of being unable to "resist the billionaire lifestyle" by vacationing at the Aga Khan's private island. Only to have it revealed that she had been attacking him, while ...

The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Doldrums #nlpoli

Feb

10

2017

MQO conducted a little poll in late January and found the party standings among voters remains where it was in November. No surprise. Nothing has happened in the past few months to move support for either of the three parties in the province up or down. We are in the lull before the provincial budget ...

The Disaffected Lib: Even Joe Says, "This is Fascism"

Feb

10

2017

Everything he’s saying is true and deeply frightening

wmtc: post about saqarra now coirrected

Feb

10

2017

Yesterday’s post contained a coding error that rendered five or six paragraphs invisible! Please see below; scroll down to [update].

Alberta Politics: Former Alberta premier Dave Hancock to be the subject of a hanging Monday afternoon at the Legislature

Feb

10

2017

PHOTOS: The official portrait of premier Dave Hancock, second-to-last Progressive Conservative premier of Alberta, will not likely look like this, although one could make a strong case it really should. After all, consider what Mr. Hancock was left to deal with by his predecessor, Alison Redford, whose official portrait is shown below at right. Above ...

daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Will the PC Party finally disqualify Jason Kenney?

Feb

10

2017

“He’s not running to be the leader of the Progressive Conservative party. He’s running to destroy the party so that he can then form a new party that he’s going to run and become leader of,” Progressive Conservative Party member Jeffrey Rath told CBC Calgary. The Priddis-based lawyer has filed a complaint with his party alleging that leadership ...

THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: It’s Time to Change The Way We View Exercise For Frail and Critically Ill

Feb

9

2017

I’m posting this guest post from http://evidencenetwork.ca because my Mom has had so much difficult regaining her strength after 3 hospitalisations in the past 4 months. Next time my Mom is in a hospital bed, I’m going to ask for in-bed cycling! It’s time to change the way we view exercise for frail and critically ...

Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links

Feb

9

2017

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Enoch explains why the Sask Party’s plans to inflict an austerian beating until economic morale improves is doomed to failure: It is now abundantly clear that the Saskatchewan government’s “transformational change” agenda is in reality a not-so-subtle euphemism for provincewide austerity in response to the current ...

Warren Kinsella: Do I want Sean Spicer’s head to explode?

Feb

9

2017

Yes. Yes, I do. Baghdad Bob 1, @seanspicer 0. #uspoli https://t.co/Ixn6IVthes — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 10, 2017

Excited Delirium: Trump’s Closed Door Policy Opens The World To New Reichstag Moment

Feb

9

2017

The famous quote from Shakepeare: ‘All the world’s a stage and we are merely players’. What we are witnessing with the new Trump regime is nothing short of a bizarrely concocted series of theatrics into making the world think that there’s some sanity holding sway in the United States. The recent decision by the federal appeals ...

Accidental Deliberations: New column day

Feb

9

2017

Here, expanding on this post about the Libs’ electoral reform betrayal – and the likelihood that it will encourage future Stephen Harpers to exploit the distortions created by first-past-the-post. For further reading…– I’ve linked to plenty of other commentary on the Libs’ broken promise here, here and here. And we can add new material from ...

The Disaffected Lib: Another Swing and a Miss for Trump Muslim Ban

Feb

9

2017

This is probably enough to turn the Great Orange Bloat inside out with rage. A federal appeals panel has refused to fast track Trump’s travel ban. The stay stands. Now it’s expected that Trump will appeal the appellate decision directly to the US Supreme Court where it faces a 4-4 stalemate.

Warren Kinsella: Vote now, vote often! Trump’s family did!

Feb

9

2017

Aaaaand @CityNews just asked me to stick around a bit, 'cause the #9thcircut decision is coming. What's your predicted outcome? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 9, 2017

The Disaffected Lib: SNAFU to FUBAR to… ? 16 Years On Afghanistan is Still Going All to Hell.

Feb

9

2017

John Nicholson says that with an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of soldiers it is possible to win the war in Afghanistan against al Qaeda and ISIS. The US army general, top commander in Afghanistan, showed up before Congress asking for another “few thousand” troops and time, more time, lots more. Nicholson ...

We Pivot: What White People Don’t Know

Feb

9

2017

What we can’t know. Let’s get more in touch with our privilege.