Good on her. She’s got guts and integrity to spare. We haven’t heard the last from Celina. Whitby, Ont. MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes has quit the Liberal caucus and will sit as an independent. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the decision after the weekly caucus meeting. “I have just been notified by
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: SNC-Lavalin Speaks
I believe I’ve noted it here a few times already, but to me one of the amazing things about the whole SNC/PMO Scandal has been the amount of new news that keeps coming out from it. It’s been a near daily barrage of details leaking or flooding out, depending on
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Brexit On The Rocks – Nine Days and Counting
Theresa May warns that, even if MPs back the withdrawal agreement today, there’s not enough time to avert a hard Brexit unless the EU throws Britain a lifeline and grants an extension of the March 29 deadline. EU president Donald Tusk has responded to May’s extension plea and it’s not
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Progress delayed
It was roughly two years ago – in the 2017 budget – when the federal government announced changes to the parental leave available through Employment Insurance. Instead of being limited to 12 months of benefits, parents could elect to receive the same total benefit amount over a period of 18
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Liberal Budget and the Monstrous Con Fascists
For a while it looked like it would be like any other Budget Day in Canada. With the finance minister Bill Morneau posing proudly with his billion dollar baby.And when I skimmed through the budget document later on it seemed like a pretty good one.But Andrew Scheer was furious because the Liberals on
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There’s an election coming, so yesterday’s budget was aimed at that reality. But, Alan Freeman writes, even though there is a considerable amount of spending, it’s not very showy: What we got today was an unusual pre-election budget, with few shiny baubles and lots of measures that promise a lot
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Committee to Re-Elect the Prime Minister: how to intimidate MPs, and how to get a newspaper to go along
THREAD. A member of the Team Trudeau campaign secretly follows around two former cabinet ministers on budget day, and takes photos of them when they meet with others. Without consent, without approval. And then he gives the photos to a reporter friendly with Team Trudeau. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March
Continue readingWise Law Blog: LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday March 20, 2019. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Mar 20, 2019 at 7:09am PDT For more information, visit our website at http://www.wiselaw.net. – Garry
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Budget 2019: The Morning After
Yesterday was Budget Day in Ottawa, a usually crazy day that usually brings some drama along with it. Well thanks to the Liberal members of the Justice Committee meetings killing the study into the SNC/PMO Scandal, that got cranked right up to 11, leading to threats of procedural shenanigans from
Continue readingThings Are Good: The History of the Carbon Cycle Sits in Ancient Wetlands
Scientists have unearthed and pieced together evidence on more than 1,000 ancient wetland sites from across the globe, that are presently covered by fields, forests and lakes. Although vanished from the Earth’s surface, these buried sites could explain some of the differences between global carbon cycle models and real-life observations.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Something for everyone; Nothing for all.
There is supposed to be a little something for everybody and it turns out there is nothing overly impressive for anybody. It is a strange feeling going over this federal budget. Nothing is particularly surprising. Nothing impresses. What is with these Liberals? They are a big tent of neoliberals, right-wing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Inclusivity” Cheat Sheet.
Canada’s regressive gender identification legislation adds legal weight to the noble argument for inclusivity.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Rethinking some dominant approaches to climate change
Photo by Fabrice Florin Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis, the result of an economic system (capitalism) with an inherent growth and profit dynamic which ensures that the exploitation of natural resources (both renewable and non-renewable) exceeds the carrying capacity of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Blanketed cats.
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: I Just Read The Entire 2019 Budget So You Don’t Have To
Holy hell, my eyeballs are burning, and my brain feels overextended – and not in the smart way, but in a leaky way. Let me get this out of the way first. If you are looking for a non-partisan analysis of the 2019 Budget, this isn’t the place to be
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Future Without Fossil Fuels?
Photo by Hedgerow Global “Kingsmill Bond” certainly sounds like a proper name for a City of London financial analyst. He looks the part, too: gray hair expertly trimmed, well-cut suit. He’s lived in Moscow and Hong Kong and worked for Deutsche Bank, the Russian financial firm Troika Dialog, and Citibank.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The War on AMLO
Photo by Eneas De Troya Ten weeks into the administration of progressive president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican right has made it clear how it plans to oppose him: not as an adversary to be defeated, but as an enemy to be destroyed. And in a war of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: 1919: A Powerful Interpretation of Canada’s Most Famous Strike
1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike Graphic History Collective and David Lester Between The Lines, 2019 “History is an important resource for people who want to change the world.” (vii) This opening line captures the philosophy of the Graphic History Collective (GHC), whose books and posters have
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Meteor Explodes Over Ocean in 2018
A video showing the smoke trail from the #Meteor over the Bering Strait last December, produced using data from @JMA_kishou's #Himawari satellite.The orange meteor trail in the middle, shadow above-left. Hi-res copy: https://t.co/EXn8sFb556 pic.twitter.com/X54InkvMnl — Simon Proud (@simon_sat) March 19, 2019 The powerful meteor that no one saw (except satellites
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