A great article by former Saskatchewan MLA & Cabinet Minister Pat Atkinson …. Harper ‘change’ cabinet retains mean face “Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to hit the reset button with…
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s support of marijuana legalization and regulation made news this week, although it isn’t really new. He spoke about his position during the leadership race, but it…
I don’t know why we still have to do this kind of thing, but here goes. The federal government “apologized” to survivors of residential schools 5 years ago. It is…
The once-authoritative Economist news magazine has set fire to its credibility, again, by reporting that global warming has slowed to the point where one columnist argues that we should wait…
Today, Statistics Canada reported a seemingly impressive monthly rise of 0.9% in average weekly earnings, from $906.24 in April to $914.68 in May. Digging a bit deeper reveals that average…
A series of recent rulings (and the media circuses that have accompanied them) in the UK has raised questions about what is being termed “sex by deception” — that is,…
Do you think he will make it.
Here, on Regina’s wastewater referendum as just the first step in encouraging regular citizen engagement in the decisions that affect us all. For further reading…– Again, Hugh Mackenzie’s analysis of…
Recently, my husband Jim and I visited an old friend – someone I hadn’t seen since 1986. Back then, we lived in Washington, DC where Jim worked at the Canadian…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 25, 2013: Federal Judge Halts Legal Challenges in Detroit Bankruptcy Case Alabama abortion law blocked for…
The Disaffected Lib continues to do stellar work on the climate change file. Visiting his site will arm anyone interested with some solid information about what is, in my view,…
From Simon Donner, about as clear an explanation I’ve heard re the “pause” in AGW (which isn’t really a “pause” in any case): Over the past 10-15 years, the global…
If it had just stayed on Twitter, nobody would have cared. Since only twits tweet, there is little point in reading them. Yet there is one particular writer of large…
Hopkins v. Ventura Custom Homes Ltd., 2013 MBCA 67 has a useful summary of the law relating to the primacy of arbitral agreements: Many courts at all levels have accepted…
Regular readers know my view about the preening megalomaniac who is the ostensibly non-partisan Ontario’s Information Commissioner – but who is, truly, a crazed publicity-seeking McGuinty-hater. Officers of the Legislature,…
Here. Reasons why I’d support her, if she ran: She knows how to work with everyone: that’s her rep from the Lastman years, when she was a councillor. She’s flexible.…
After the cabinet shuffles last week, commentators began to speculate about whether Stephen Harper was opening the door to his successor. The truth is, no one knows what Harper is…
Former CIA-head David Petraeus’ City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College seminar readings include several prominent Big Oil-funded “frackademia” studies, a recent DeSmogBlog investigation revealed. Further digging into…
I’m not sure that robots need food, but the rest of this seems accurate, particularly the top. Some of the robots despense food. Alltop is a self-actualized chatbot. More of…
