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Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 22, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 22, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Why the Ford government nixed deposit on soft drink cans, bottles Judge hands Trump major legal victory, dismissing classified documents charges Toronto police officers were ‘misleading’ to justify use of force during raid
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Housing is the only solution to homelessness
People living in tents behind Hamilton city hall. Photo courtesy CHCH News/YouTube. In a recent political ad dubbed “Real change. The one promise he kept,” Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre contrasted still images of empty city streets from 2015 with photos of those same streets populated by homeless encampments in
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Farewell to Biden; Hello to Kamala
Biden was one of the best presidents America has had but I expect Kamala will be even better. Tonight, social media is full of great tweets and stories about Biden, about Kamala, about Democrats. And there was definitely a tone of relief tonight that things are settled. I told my
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith, the Sky Palace, and those Skybox freebies: What a difference a decade makes!
When word leaked out in the spring of 2014 about a plan by the Progressive Conservatives to build a penthouse suite for premier Alison Redford atop a government office building in downtown Edmonton, Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith excoriated the scheme dubbed the Sky Palace by its critics. Premier Alison
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Tough on crime!
Pierre Poilievre and other conservatives promise to be tough on crime. “Jail, not bail,” says the man who aspires to be Canada’s next Prime Minister. The John Howard Society is a non-profit that offers a more balanced and less political view of crime than Poilievre. In 2023, the agency wrote
Continue reading52 Ideas: The UK election will truly effect Alberta
The UK is going to look a lot more like Scandavia by 2030. If you look at the parties in the new Parliament, most of their platforms said the same thing: between now and 2030, the UK should lean hard into developing their wind and solar energy sectors, move more
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My column that urged Joe to do what he did
Jean Chretien and Joe Biden. This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about how they were similar. Their similarities, in fact, were such that I was persuaded to support the latter because of my many years of work for the former. Consider: both politicians were older than most of their
Continue readingKersplebedeb: 1. “Workies”: The World’s First Labor Party
The idea of a Labor Party based on the existing trade union movement to defend working class interests is far from new. from https://www.lcipcommittee.org/1-workies-the-worlds-first-labor-party/
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Where There’s Money, There’s Masks
“They only insist on unmasking you and your kids because you are not valued by the powers that be. Be smarter and mask up” (from Dr. Spela Salamon) On film and series sets, the actors are not expendable. They must stay healthy for sake of everyone’s paycheque. So everyone on sets
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Trump—an aggrieved leader for an aggrieved people
Why, one wonders, would so many Americans be prepared to elect a president with such contempt for democracy, one of the country’s cardinal values. A partial answer is that many Americans simply don’t care for democracy. Not everyone does. A study by Matthew MacWilliams, a research associate at the University
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 55 Years Ago, Humans Landed On The Moon
As a kid, and to this day I am envious of those who experienced this pioneering era of space exploration. https://x.com/JohnKleinRegina/status/1814701568320807202?t=4av0bJxbsZKeGFgZpB2ZhQ&s=19
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Comparating municipal spending on housing and homelessness in Canada’s major cities
I recently led a research study comparing spending by large Canadian municipalities on homeless-related services and affordable housing. Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview of the study:https://nickfalvo.ca/comparating-municipal-spending-on-housing-and-homelessness-in-canadas-major-cities/
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Epidemic Is Widespread And Growing
On this blog I have never made a secret of my disdain for those who are willfully ignorant and mindlessly led. To allow someone else to do our thinking for us is unforgivably lazy and a complete dereliction of the responsibilities of citizenship. Yet in both the United States and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
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Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s update: That rascally Biden!
Today it seems people are realizing the Biden-Must-Go campaign could be retitled as “Elitist Dems and Fat Cats v. Biden” – yes, Biden stumbles over his words, but his ideas and goals are clear and admirable. AOC speaks: NEW Congresswoman @AOC just did a nearly hour long live where she
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