A Listener Writes in About Violence in our Schools
2023-04-27
Our episode with ETFO President Karen Brown was widely received. A long time listener of the podcast, Nathaniel Arfin wasRead More …
Lies, Damn Lies, and Election News
2022-05-10
The election season stories are underway – in this case study we look out how the NDP managed to grab a bunch of column inches smearing Lisa MacLeod for not doing anything out of line at all, and Ontario’s media just … went along with it.Read More …
Mississauga Councillor’s Resignation Shakes City Hall to its Core
2022-02-18
Alan Kan writes on the scandal surrounding the resignation of Karen Ras in Mississauga following repeated incidents in which her car was vandalized.Read More …
Radically Good; Historically Bad? First Impressions of the Draft Housing Affordability Task-Force Report
2022-01-20
TVO has today published a leaked details of the Ontario Government’s Housing Affordability Task Force Report, due to be published next week.
If the draft were implemented, it would fundamentally change development in Ontario cities. Roland Tanner argues there seem to be some very good, some potentially good, and some terrible recommendations.Read More …
A Polite Suggestion to Ontario’s Big City Mayors: Shut Up
2022-01-17
The mayors are at it again. What don’t they understand about political interference in a public health issue?Read More …
Living Wages Are Good For Ontario’s Businesses And Taxpayers
2021-11-16
(First published January 2019) The Ontario Chamber of Commerce likes to claim all businesses oppose better wages. It’s not true.Read More …
Time to Change the Script on Vaccines
2021-10-02
Our co-host Joel MacLeod, had an opinion piece published in The Spec this morning. A link to it is here.Read More …
Fed up with politics? Volunteer.
2021-09-08
There is no party like a victory party that actually happens after a victory. Especially if the previous one was in the 1940s.
But hardly any Canadians take an active role in local party politics beyond voting. Doing so leaves parties exposed to special interest groups, wealthy donors and the small number of unrepresentative people who come forward to pick leaders and choose party direction. Is it any wonder we don’t feel they reflect our priorities?Read More …
Why There Is No Episode This Canada Day
2021-07-01
Please see above for our reasons why we decided not to the post an episode this Canada Day. We inviteRead More …
We’re not Erasing History; We’re Learning It
2021-06-19
Statues are not history, and few things are more boring to historians than statutes of Victorian worthies … right until the moment they are pulled down.
Among the hysteria about “cancelling Canada’s history”, millions are learning important facts about Canada’s past. So is it history the statue-defenders want to protect? Or a mythological past that hides the brutal truths?Read More …