NDP MP and Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson rises to introduce a motion on the situation in the Middle East, Monday, March 18, 2024. Photo courtesy Heather McPherson/X. On March 18, the House of Commons passed an opposition day motion put forward by Heather McPherson, the NDP’s foreign affairs critic,
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: operation paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought nazi scientists to america
Many years ago, I wrote about how the label conspiracy theory is used to shut down inquiry and squelch the questioning of authority: two words, part one, two words part two. */** Never have I been more aware of this than after reading two books about real events that could easily
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-health-care-reform-sex-offenders-and.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mr. Mulroney’s Legacy
Willy Loman – Death of A Salesman Brian Mulroney – Late Canadian Salesman In a previous post, I discussed what I considered to be one of the shortcomings of the late prime minister, Brian Mulroney: his essential shallowness. But it is the damage many say he did to this country
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
This what we’re singing on March 29th. You should come hear the Requiem live, it is a powerful experience.
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Happiness is… (2024 edition)
Overall, Canada ranks 15th in the World Happiness Report, although it is first among nations with populations of more than 30 million. However, when the happiness of citizens under age thirty was ranked, Canada was listed at a miserable 58th, trailing countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Some may wonder
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP and AHS desperately search for scapegoat to make motel medicine meltdown go away
Based on the dismal performance of Health Minister Adriana LaGrange and Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos at a news conference yesterday morning, it is clear the United Conservative Party Government and AHS are now in a desperate scramble to find someone to blame for the continuing motel health care
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: B’nai Brith fireside chat
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Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Three strikes and …?
We Albertans have received three powerful, powerful messages from Mother Nature. Plain, undeniable lessons. Well, not quite undeniable. In the face of all reason and common sense, we do in fact deny them. You may not be surprised to know that these messages relate to global warming. The first was
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Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Gaza Stories
“Gaza – Stories of Grief, Resilience and Hope” was hosted by the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba and Independent Jewish Voices Winnipeg at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on March 16, 2024. As the title suggests, members of the Palestinian diaspora in Winnipeg share the impact this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Update On Stupidity
Just a brief post, but reading The Guardian today, I am reminded that Jesus said, “The poor will always be with you.” He could just as easily have said the same about the stupid: Trump pleads with supporters for cash to help pay soaring legal bills Former president lashes out
Continue readingIn This Corner: Why Brian Mulroney looks so good today
Have I ever told you about the time I met Brian Mulroney? It was 1984, and Mulroney was running to replace the exhausted and deeply unpopular Pierre Trudeau/John Turner government. He stopped by Red Deer, and I decided to go see him. I stood in line just outside Red Deer
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett discuss why the world can’t afford the rich. And Cory Doctorow points out that class-based advocacy for better material conditions tends to be a political winner even in the U.S. – but that it’s not generally presented as an option by
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have a co-signed on changes to the investment, does that investment belong to you?
The answer will very often depend on what you and your family member intended. Did they put the investments in your name with the expectation that you would hold it for their benefit, as a convenience, or was it done with the intention that the money was to belong to
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: When the Rain Comes
A good rain metaphor from tern: Some people just can’t wrap their heads around the multiple dangers caused by covid infection. Speaking to a colleague yesterday, I tried to describe it like the effects of rain. If your roof is solid, and there’s a light rain shower, your house can
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Accuracy of information act?
An article by Ben Parfitt was published in Policy Note, a blog by the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Parfitt reports that while the BC Government is promising protection of ancient forests, senior bureaucrats are instead protecting low-value scrub and permitting logging of high-value old-growth trees. While
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Trending tonight: #ScrapTheCrap and #22Minutes
[With thanks to Journo Dale Smith.] So today Pierre Poilievre was getting lots of media attention due to his ridiculous “threat” of a non-confidence motion — did he think the NDP would actually want to fight an election this spring? Not. #ScrapTheCrap #ScrapTheCrapPoilievre #PierrePoilievreBaloneyFactory #BaloneyFactory #HandsOffMyRebate #IStandWithTrudeau pic.twitter.com/xDCjFTUM2Q — Carla⚡️⚡️⚡️ #IStandWithTrudeau
Continue readingAlberta Politics: NDP leadership candidate Sarah Hoffman takes a page from the book of FDR with Youth Climate Corps idea
Sarah Hoffman, one of the candidates to lead the Alberta NDP, boldly announced a climate change policy yesterday that tore a page right from the book of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944, shortly before his death (Photo: FDR Campaign). At any rate, Ms. Hoffman’s idea of
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