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In my life I see people who live in big houses, who have multiple vehicles in the driveway, who are regularly flying off on vacation, who cheer the unsustainable rise in real estate and equity prices, really upset about that Kathleen Wynne. They don't appear to be living hard lives. If anything...

Only one person was convicted of the Air India bombing, despite the authorities tracking the perpetrators prior to event and despite investigators spending millions to raise a plane and reassemble it in a warehouse. That one person is now free to live at home. Omar Khadr's father was partially...

F'd up: Safe and secure modest housing is unattainable for responsible working young people in the years when they might want to form families. Not F'd up: Little to no short-term or medium-term upside for investors and speculators.

This was my point to some degree. Never believed that this just started happening. Hasn't the upward price growth in houses been occurring for a steady couple of decades? Could have used my uncle as an example. His is 71 and divorced, has a girlfriend of similar age, also divorced. They both own...

When people start comparing houses to collectible running shoes, it's probably time to get out of the market. I wonder how much of the housing crunch is pressured by middle-aged and older people having less stable lives than in the past. I think of my sister. She's in her late-40s, separated...

http://sirf-online.org/2016/12/12/canadian-national-railway-the-great-ralroad-construction-robbery/ Acting on a tip, the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation began investigating Canadian National in the fall of 2014. Here’s what our reporting uncovered: For over 15 years Canadian...

Could you have foreseen a Republican presidential candidate (and eventual winner) warming up to a Russian dictator and campaigning on protectionist trade measures before Trump? Our inability to see it doesn't mean that it can't happen. And any future populist successes, in the US, Canada or...

You can't map the Trump example onto Canadian trends and say if this particular thing doesn't fit, won't happen here. Trump is a unique event. Something similar here would occur in uncountable unpredictable ways that are different from the way populism and extremism (if that's what Trump brings)...

To add to what I said above: In Quebec, their billionaire oligarch took over a political party founded by unions, artists and intellectuals. John Tory only runs to be the boss of things, and who the hell is John Tory to be so presumptuous? Made him Mayor. Would Conrad Black be our closest thing...

Amazing to me that someone even asks this after the experience of Rob Ford. Of course it could happen, if the right combination of personality and circumstance comes along. Working class old industrial places like Windsor and Hamilton that have long went NDP could jump straight to the more...

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-tower-goes-bust-canada-214412 Reported here that it is the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada. Aura is taller, isn't it? One Bloor? And several other proposed towers in Toronto? Wish they would have used the story about the sign and its...

In my recollection, at least of the first debates with Smitherman, Ford's trick was to lean back, tilt his head toward the sky and chuckle when criticized, on character especially. Then he'd just go back to his slogans: war on the car, downtown elite, $65 car tax, customer service, return every...

Yeah, blame the 'uneducated' all you want for Trump*, but at least they're showing more imagination than the ossified big money structures of the established parties, who can't see past the Clinton and Bush families. Worst is the Democrats, who despite stumbling onto something new with Obama...

Maybe the media punks itself. Seems that every show on CNN opens with the Breaking News music and graphic. Perhaps if they stopped predicting the news and instead reported it they'd be less hurt when it all the stage and spin doesn't unfold the way they were anticipating.

No, it doesn't (but it was an interesting enough insinuation that I had to check out what that was all about). http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/15/ivanka-trump-socializes-with-wendi-deng/ Murdoch was something of a mentor to Ivanka's husband after he entered the newspaper business. The families...