140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, February 3, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, February 3, 2014: Conrad Black removed from Order of Canada 2 former Boy Scout leaders charged with…
February 2014
LPC national board candidate interview: Chris MacInnes for vice-president, English
From February 20-23, federal Liberals will gather in Montreal, and one of their tasks will be to elect a new national executive. In the coming days, I’ll be publishing interviews…
Self Service
The numbers are in on Stephen Harper’s trip to Israel. The Canadian Press reports: The survey, conducted from Jan. 23-Jan. 27 by Harris/Decima for The Canadian Press, suggests a third…
Iceland Demonstrates Magma Power Plant
Iceland recently demonstrated that it’s not only possible to use the core of our planet to generate power, but it’s feasible. Iceland’s geothermal operations are the envy of the world…
Herr Harper: Master Of The Twitterverse
Given the Prime Minister’s penchant for control, I suppose this story should come as no surprise, but does rather conspicuously give lie to his claim of running an open and…
Is Mark Steyn Doing A Slo-Mo Double Endo Into The Snow Fence Of Failure?
Is he crashing and burning, in other words? Getting involved in a potentially ruinious lawsuit must be bad enough; representing yourself must surely make it worse. Witness this, from The…
Coke advert unleashes the bigots, racists and xenophobics because the world sings, “America is beautiful”?
There are a million and one reasons why you should dislike coke – most of which involve taking advantage of sugar addiction and capitalist monopoly on beverages that are made
World’s tallest freestanding mayor
Mayor de Blasio and Lala. She’s six feet even, but taller in her Sorels. So just how big is this guy, anyway? From the venerable Times, which has conducted an…
Stephen Harper and the Insane War on Unions
When I think about what historians will say about the rule of the mad king Harper and the lost years of The Great Darkness, I think it will probably be…
Amnesia #nlpoli
This week we should find out when the provincial Conservatives will have their leadership convention. The talk around town late last week was that the crowd Danny Williams once called…
Strategy, or escape from the privatization matrix (Canada Post, Part 2)
The endgame of the current rounds of cuts at Canada Post is some form of privatization. In the previous post, I argued that privatization proceeds differently depending on context. Many…
Bigotry Against the Rich: Is That a Thing?
So apparently the rich are an oppressed minority now. Last month, in what is thought to have become the most widely read letter to the editor ever published by The…
Farewell Liberalberta? Alberta Liberals back in the red
Tweet Less than two years after adopting a new green and grey Liberalberta logo, the Alberta Liberal Party appears to have switched back to the party’s traditional red. A new…
Back to the future? Private-client opinion polls said to show big shift toward Alberta’s Wildrose Party
The future belongs, the future belongs, the future belongs to us… Peter Lougheed preaches to the converted in Calgary not long before the 1971 provincial election. After 42 years and…
SEAHAWKS BABY! SEAHAWKS!!!
I've waited a very, very, very long time for this day to come. Thank you baby Jesus!
SEAHAWKS BABY! SEAHAWKS!!!
I’ve waited a very, very, very long time for this day to come. Thank you baby Jesus!
SEAHAWKS BABY! SEAHAWKS!!!
I've waited a very, very, very long time for this day to come. Thank you baby Jesus!
SEAHAWKS BABY! SEAHAWKS!!!
I’ve waited a very, very, very long time for this day to come. Thank you baby Jesus!
Senate’s “Dirty Duo” Ready To Lift Oil Export Ban
The two ranking members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee signaled they are prepared to introduce legislation to lift the ban on U.S. oil exports. Senators Mary Landrieu…
The move – Part I
So we moved! It was stressful, as moving always is, and we’re still digging out from under all the boxes, but at least the move is behind us. The movers…