The citizens of Saskatchewan own the Potash reserve that sits below the surface of the province. We own it. However, we allow private companies to mine the potash. In return,…
One of the best interviewers on television, Bill Moyers, speaks to one of the global sustainability movement’s “superstars”, physicist and food activist Vandana Shiva. The discussion is wide-ranging but centers…
This morning I was doodling around looking at online news when I noticed this article on the business page. “Hmmm”, I thought, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ could be…
Generation X may be squarely in the crosshairs of global warming but a great many of them just don’t care. A survey conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for…
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Today’s Mosaic quarterly report provides further evidence that the Government of Saskatchewan should improve its royalty and tax structure to collect a better return on the province’s non-renewable resources like…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dave Coles writes that the Harper Cons are using their power to protect the privacy of international arms dealers, while at the…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 17, 2012: Manitoba judge’s accuser faces scrutiny at inquiry Court and Probation Company Are Running ‘Extortion…
These silly laws limiting how much you can give to political parties and candidates in Canada suck. Here is why. It takes the fun of watching rich people spend inordinate…
Although well established it is surprisingly common for Courts hearing judicial interim release hearings to be uncertain if Gladue principles apply. Here is a list of cases that make it…
As a practical matter that means a First Nations accused has a slim chance of being tried by a jury of peers.
The rise of the Harpercon regime has largely been the direct result of a media that has utterly failed to do its job in any meaningful way. Of course, we…
We got their attention. We hand-delivered your 90,000+ Stop The Trap petition signatures to TPP negotiators. Now they’ve said they might make their secrets public!1 Let’s not give them any…
On last Sunday’s talk shows, Ed Gillespie claimed that Mitt Romney had retired “retroactively” from Bain Capital. In response, Dana Milbank wrote in the Washington Post: Retroactive retirement! It was…
Everyone has an opinion. For now I will hold mine. Questions do arise though – what type of guns were used? If they were handguns, as seems likely, what was…
Despite its well-oiled propaganda machine spewing out rhetoric defending its ‘law-and-order-agenda’, the Harper regime is so awash in its contempt for the actual rule of law and its moral underpinnings…
Except for the wily Odysseus. If he could restrain himself from mass-murdering all of the guys hitting on his hot wife, Penelope, he would probably be able to manage a…
Scientists Tell US State Department Excluding Climate Impacts in Keystone XL Review ‘Neither Wise nor Credible’
Keystone XL protest.jpg Ten of the nation’s top climate scientists penned a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today questioning why the State Department isn't considering the enormous climate…