March 2020
“Did we just strike out on 200,000 small businesses?”
"Afraid so. We're trashing the start-up and entrepreneurs' farm system ... Mike's going along." (4 min read) In the last three years, over 300,000 Canadian small businesses started up (on average, 104,000 a Read more...
Poor leadership is not only painful … it’s deadly!
(3 min read) We all know the short-comings of Donald Trump, U.S. President, and we all know he and his "merry band of sycophants" will always act like the Sheriff of Nottingham rather than Read more...
November 2018
Fascism versus Democracy …
or 'the strong and wrong versus the right and weak' (7 minute read) I've borrowed the heading from something President Bill Clinton said, and former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright restated in her Read more...
Every mayor must foster community spirit and hope …
to measure up to this mayor and his community (5 minute read) The municipal elections are behind us and the rush of community spirit that leads up to elections has subsided, so now is Read more...
October 2018
Election postmortem – what you see is …
what you get, who you are, and what you deserve (5 minute read) Good morning to everyone who lives in the 444 Ontario municipalities that voted yesterday and woke up this morning to a Read more...
Double, double, toil and trouble …
fire burn and politics bubble – until we stop drinking witches' brew and vote incumbents out (4 minute read) It's simple. Change means change. Don't re-elect anybody. It's folly. It's drinking the same witches Read more...