April 28, 2025

Election Day.

As the federal campaign hits the end of the road today, a surprisingly bloodless contest given the tumultuous times in which it was fought out, Trump in, Trudeau out, in basically four words, the most striking thing about it for me has been the empty, one-note stumping by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. Continue reading

Pointless Finger Pointing

Mayor Tory’s bold housing plan passed council last Wednesday asking for a staff report by next March. As a politician who often touts his boldness, frequently followed by a lackluster follow-through, remember SmartTrack (bold purely for its naked political optics) and the proposed Raildeck Park (a bold miscalculation, as far as I can tell), this time round, the mayor’s dead serious. His Housing ACTION Plan, 2023, no less, is bold to the bone. Continue reading