- Nov 2, 2022
- 9 min
MORE FROM THE TOP BRASS
The Emergencies Act Commission heard many hours of testimony from key figures within Ottawa and Ontario policing between October 21st and...
- Oct 27, 2022
- 1 min
I'D LIKE A SALOON
Karl: I’d like to start a saloon. Yarl: Oh really? Karl: Oh yes. I've got it all sorted out. Yarl: I bet. Karl: The main floor is...
- Oct 23, 2022
- 15 min
THE COMMISSION HEARS FROM CITY AND PROVINCIAL POLICE
Days six and seven offered us more illuminating inquiry. The people running police operations in Ottawa knew what was coming,...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 12 min
QUESTIONING POLICE OVERSIGHT AND INTELLIGENCE
On day five of the inquiry, October 19th, we started hearing from executives within local and provincial policing and intelligence...
- Oct 15, 2022
- 20 min
SOME KIND OF INQUIRY
Much has been learned in the opening days of the Emergencies Act inquiry. Many surprises have come out, too. I’m so glad I wrote about...
- Sep 21, 2022
- 5 min
POLAR BEAR SNOW JOB
The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...
- Aug 30, 2022
- 4 min
CONSIGNED TO MALIGN
I'd gotten a text message from a friend telling me I should listen to this podcast from someone named Ezra Klein. I didn't know the...
- Jul 17, 2022
- 2 min
IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT
David Suzuki used to have this metaphor he'd use when talking about climate change. He likened the problem and our inaction to a car...
- Jun 25, 2022
- 1 min
WHAT TO DO WITH PUBLIC MONEY
With all this talk about museums, I'd like to review our publicly owned Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (read: interprovincial...
- Jun 18, 2022
- 1 min
BACKWARDS AND UPSIDE DOWN
We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...