A Loaded Gesture

Critical minerals.

2025’s leading political slogan used to denote our future prosperity and well-being.

Premier Ford rode an excessive use of the term to a third straight majority government in February. Continue reading →

Election? What Election?

What’s a conservative gotta do to be chased from office around here?

Call an unnecessary snap election in the dead of winter under completely bogus circumstances, and then run a photo-op generated peek-a-boo campaign in the hopes of shielding the party leader and his roster of candidates from close scrutiny and tough questions? Continue reading →

Incumbency

After reading The Local’s September article, How Toronto’s Councillors Became Nearly Unbeatable, I did a little creative calculation myself, tabulating the average time the 19 incumbents running for re-election on Monday have spent at Toronto’s City Hall. Close observers will immediately spot a discrepancy with my math. 19 incumbents? But there are only 18 running. What gives? Continue reading →