You might have been one of those kids who, especially in hindsight, had the TV as your babysitter. I was. And that wasn’t automatically a bad thing, especially if your babysitter was Mr. Dressup. That’s why I couldn’t help but get choked up while watching the Prime...
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Scared and Sober(ish): How the Dean Blundell Podcast Saved My Life
We all have that one friend who just can’t get his shit together, that guy you’ve known since grade school who manages to interrupt one colossal failure with yet another colossal failure, who is always broke as fuck, and who could never hold down a romantic...
Why does America keep spying on their closest allies?
Another G7 Summit is over, and with it two political traditions that never go away; leaders from the G7 can’t take a decent photo together, and America keeps getting caught spying on their supposed allies. This time it was discovered through an internal investigation...
Can we please stop pretending an apology from the Catholic Church means something?
Last week Canadian media began reporting on a horrific discovery in Kamloops; a mass grave of 215 children found on the grounds of an already-infamous residential school. Just like most of the other residential schools, this Kamloops version of hell on Earth for...
It’s time to invade The Vatican
It’s time.
Erin O’Toole already looking like a lame duck leader
Last week during the Dean Blundell podcast I likened Conservative Party of Canada leader Erin O’Toole to a manager at Home Depot. I think I may have made a terrible mistake when I said those words, and for that I would like to unreservedly apologize. I mean, in order...
Chicago 7 movie exposes the lack of leadership in present day activism
It can be difficult choosing a side in 2020, especially when the guardians of social justice are either inept or invisible. Many of us who do not plant a flag on the progressive or conservative side of the political spectrum are motivated by our collective...
Allegations against Biden exposes everyone as hypocrites
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." - William F. Buckley Jr. Credibility among American progressives has evaporated. For the first time among the social justice crowd, #metoo is being waved away, all for the...
Trudeau’s reliance on World Health Organization infantilizes Canadians
When I was a child, my parents used to make me cover my eyes if the movie we were watching as a family contained violence or nudity. It was their way of sparing me from some harsher content they did not believe I could handle at the time. They didn’t realize...