Celebrities have the ability to bring attention to issues they find important – from helping starving children to ensuring you feel pressure to buy things you don’t need. In recent history celebrities have changed the discourse on important issues, but when it comes to the climate crisis they come across
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Manning – Coleman Correlation #nlpoli
Some people who read The Independent last week thought that there was a debate going on between Hans Rollmann and Drew Brown over Judy Manning’s appointment as attorney general and minister of justice, public safety, and whatever-the-department-name-will-be-tomorrow. There wasn’t. The pair agreed on everything, except one minor issue. (Read more…)
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If nothing else, the controversy over the sweet heart deal the provincial Conservatives cut with Frank Coleman’s son at Humber Valley Paving should dispel the fairy tale that Coleman and his family are political outsiders. They are very much the quintessential political insiders. Transportation minister Nick McGrath admitted to reporters
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Believing is Seeing
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once,” wrote Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to his nephew, Peter Carr, from Paris, France, 1785), “finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it … Continue reading →
Continue readingCanada II: Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great powers became economic nonsense more than a century ago, and
Continue readingCanada II: Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity.
Defence Budgets and Cave Men
For the first time in history, NO great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great powers became eco…
Canada II: Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great powers became economic nonsense more than a century ago, and
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