Jun 28 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — It was quite something to log in to Twitter last weekend during President Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally, his first since the lockdowns came into effect. Both anonymous accounts and prominent journalists and public figures unleashed non-stop jabs at every aspect of the rally as if they were auditioning to be some low-rent MSNBC version of […]
Jun 21 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s an impasse on Parliament Hill that serves as a good example of the broader tensions playing out across society right now. On Wednesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh put forward a motion concerning the RCMP. It called for a review of their budget, their public accountability measures and their use of force policies. These reasonable […]
Jun 14 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — You probably haven’t heard that much about Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best on the news and across social media. Maybe that’s because she appears to be everything we need right now – a calm and level-headed officer, who is very much open to reform but also speaks out against violent looting and is not willing […]
Jun 6 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — I’ve been breaking the rules ever since the start. Despite officials recommending against it, I’ve been dividing my time between rural Ontario and downtown Toronto, regularly going back and forth. It’s what we felt we had to do to as a family to maintain our sanity as a household with multiple small children. I know […]
Jun 3 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The stock market is down. Companies are available for cheap. Some pretty good companies. Some sensitive ones. Maybe middle-class people in Canada who have cash to spare will use this opportunity to make some purchases for their TFSAs or RRSPs. Or, maybe, the Chinese government will swoop in and gobble up these companies.
May 24 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spent the past couple of months announcing a wide array of government pandemic relief programs to prop up the individuals and businesses who’ve watched the money dry up as the lockdowns closed the economy. The acronyms abound, with the CERB, CESB, CEWS and CEBA as the most well known. There’s […]
May 12 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Remember a couple of weeks ago when the State of Georgia was re-opening and we were told the sky was going to fall? They were the first major jurisdiction to take the leap, re-opening many businesses on April 24 only a few weeks after first imposing their lockdown. The list of businesses included hair salons […]
May 3 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The now tiresome mantra that “we’re all in this together” can only take us so far. It’s true in the sense that we’re all abiding by some form of government mandated physical distancing, eager to beat back the virus. But where it falls apart is in how different people are experiencing the consequences differently. For […]
Apr 5 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — What Canadians are facing as a nation has quickly gone from being a public health crisis to a whole-of-society one. It’s the same for many countries. Yet, not all countries are responding the same way to the coronavirus. And not all experts are urging the same action. Right now, Canadians are mostly on the same […]
Mar 31 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The Liberal government is raising taxes in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, on April 1, no less. It sounds like an April Fools’ gag, doesn’t it? But it’s no joke. It’s real. On Wednesday, the federal carbon tax will increase by 50%, from the current $20 per tonne to $30 per tonne.
Mar 29 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The past few days have seen ever-increasing and severe measures brought in to restrict Canadians’ fundamental liberties. For the most part, those measures have been received with widespread support because we understand what is at stake. That support will only last for so long though, especially if the measures get stricter and more difficult to […]
Mar 1 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The other day I was reminiscing with a fellow parent about the widespread blackout that shut down the power for several days in Ontario and New York back in 2003. We both agreed that back then it felt like a somewhat cool thing to be a part of, from our much younger perspectives. I remember […]
Feb 24 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — It’s fairly common to hear politicians or activists announce a campaign to tackle a social plague like poverty or homelessness and even affix a hard target to it. They give themselves a certain number of years to considerably reduce the problem or even entirely eradicate the foe. While we all agree with the sentiment, we […]
Feb 23 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Marilyn Gladu is an unlikely candidate and she clearly doesn’t care. The fourth official leadership candidate, Gladu is a relative unknown in the race to replace outgoing leader Andrew Scheer but you wouldn’t have guessed it based on her confident performance at a recent Sun editorial board meeting in Toronto. In fact, the two-term MP […]
Feb 1 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Back in 2012, the chief medical officer of health for Ottawa voiced his support for some form of pop ban similar to what was being implemented in Manhattan at the time. It never came to pass but it still left locals scratching their heads. Why is controversial policy like this being pushed by a civil […]