Here is your daily Lawct form Wise Law for Thursday March 31, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Mar 31, 2016 at 6:49am PDTA final divorce judgment cannot be granted until one year following the date a married cou…
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Nick Bunker points out that there’s much more to an economic recovery than nominal GDP – with labour’s share of growth serving as a particularly important indicator as to whether anybody is benefitting beyond t…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Id Of Trump
The id is an important part of our personality because as newborns, it allows us to get our basic needs met. Freud believed that the id is based on our pleasure principle. In other words, the id wants whatever feels good at the time, with no considerat…
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Correcting corruption in Ontario.
It appears that the news media has detected a bad smell in the general area of Ontario’s seat of government at Queen’s Park. It is the smell of political corruption. We are told not to worry though as our Premier promises to fix it later this year. Is that when she will have enough in […]
Continue readingThings Are Good: Five Artists To Inspire You
Art can take so many forms and with new technologies those forms can get more and more bizarre. Over at the Creators Project they have put together a collection of artists that they think will be influential this year. If you’re looking for inspiration or you just want to see some neat art you should […]
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Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Rapid Collapse of Stephen Harper’s Legacy (Continued)
One of the things that has surprised and pleased me the most, is to see how quickly the foul legacy of Stephen Harper is disappearing.Demolished by Justin Trudeau's Liberals, and slowly buried by the sands of time.So I'm glad to see that even t…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Talking About Gender – Debbie Cameron and Joan Scanlon – Part 2
Did you miss part 1 here? “To make sense of these ideas [conceptions of gender] and decide what you think of them, it’s helpful to understand a bit of history—the history of feminist and sexual radical ideas. There are three main questions we think it’s worth pursuing in more detail: Is it true that radical […]
Continue readingHow Propaganda (Actually) Works
Political Propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
In the early years of DeSmog’s research into environmental propaganda, I thought of indu…
Montreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Accidental President
I've always had the feeling that the person most surprised by Donald Trump's meteoric rise in the polls was The Donald himself.That in his quest to boost his reality television image, and his business profile, he launched himself into the Repub…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A meritless position #nlpoli
The new provincial Liberal administration has made the creation of a merit-based system of cabinet appointments the centre-piece of its first session of the House of Assembly.The bill to give effect to their policy is not perfect but by the time it cle…
Continue readingIn-Sights: The real purpose of Site C?
“Water is the driving force of all nature” — Leonardo da VinciWhy Site C must be stopped, Wendy Holm [Consulting Agrologist], Special to the Vancouver Sun, July 28, 2014…in the face of overwhelming evidence, the B.C. government and its private …
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Why Site C must be stopped, Wendy Holm [Consulting Agrologist], Special to the Vancouver Sun, July 28, 2014
…in the face of overwhelming evidence, the B.C. government and its private sector partners seem quite content to throw tomorrow under the bus and press ahead with the construction of Site C — economics and the public interest be damned.
Why? …In part, it’s about money: there are lots of significant piggies ’round the taxpayer trough that will make big bucks building it. In part, it’s about leverage: saddled with Site C’s high-priced power, BC Hydro will hemorrhage red ink, fuelling calls for its privatization and, as such, delivering the vision of investors.
And, in part, it may also be about the water itself. Once impounded behind the dam, the previously free-flowing water of B.C.’s Peace River becomes a NAFTA commodity if BC Hydro is privatized and American investors are involved. …Also interestingly, Site C Dam is smack where it belongs to support the Kuiper, NAWAPA and Grand Prairie schemes for continental water sharing. As water becomes increasingly scarce, the ridiculous becomes profitable…
Water and Free Trade: The Mulroney Government’s Agenda for Canada’s Most Precious Resource, Wendy Holm
WATER FROM THE NORTH: NATURE, FRESHWATER, AND THE NORTH AMERICAN WATER AND POWER ALLIANCE, Thesis Abstract, Andrew W. Reeves, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 2009:
…Drafted to address the anxiety of perceived ecoscarcity regarding water shortages in the early 1960s, NAWAPA [North American Water and Power Alliance] emerged after a century of increasingly large‐scale diversion projects, and seemed a logical continuation of such grandiose, “jet‐ age” type thinking. It proposed to re‐engineer the North American landscape to provide water from the North to the arid Southwest…
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Executive Summary
Canada has twenty per cent of the planet’s total fresh water supply. Canada’s water wealth raises the possibility of shipping water in bulk, through tankers or pipelines, to regions suffering from drought. On the one hand, bulk water exports could be an economic boon for Canada and a possible solution to the rising concerns over global water security…
Canada can engage in sustainable and responsible bulk water exports if it implements necessary legal and regulatory reforms. First, Canada’s treaties should characterize bulk water exports as a “good” for purposes of international trade and investment law…
In-Sights: The real purpose of Site C?
“Water is the driving force of all nature” — Leonardo da VinciWhy Site C must be stopped, Wendy Holm [Consulting Agrologist], Special to the Vancouver Sun, July 28, 2014 …in the face of overwhelming evidence, the B.C. government and its private sector partners seem quite content to throw tomorrow under
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Ontario Set To Terminate Needed Therapy for a Vast Swath of Autistic Kids
(Parents Upset At Recent Changes To Autism Services In Ontario) The Ontario government recently announced changes it is going to make to the services autistic kids receive in the province. The Ontario government is looking at terminating intensive behavioral intervention therapy (IBI) for kids 5 and over, and pump more money into the controversial applied […]
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: March 30: The news is bunk
After I finished yesterday’s blog, I came across a stunning poll result. Sixty percent of adult Americans believe that the U.S. army uncovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And a similar percentage thought that the U.S. won the Iraq war.No…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Changing Face of Heritage Neighbourhood in Regina
Malty National opens tomorrow.
It’s a couple blocks east of the General Hospital on 15th Ave. One day there may even be a bike lane on that street.
The Disaffected Lib: Aye, There’s the Rub
The era of globalization has created a serious problem – control of strategic resources. Britain is now confronted with the issue due to the decision of a giant, Indian transnational, Tata, to shut down the UK’s steel production industry….this week
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: NATURAL CARE IN FAMILIES IS THE KEY TO OUR SURVIVAL
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Elizz. All opinions are 100% mine.The natural, loving care that family members provide to one another is the engine of society. The care we give to those we love makes all other work possib…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: A class of refugee the National Post and Wildrose Party can finally love: billionaires in tax flight
PHOTOS: N. Murray Edwards talking about himself in a screen capture from a Facebook video. Below: The National Post’s Kevin Libin and the Wildrose Party’s Derek Fildebrandt, united in their fearless championing of the Canadian overdog. Bottom: Wild…
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