17,000 followers! Justin Trudeau, watch out!
I’ve got 17,000 Twitter followers, and I’ve got you in my sights, pal. You’re in trouble, now.
November 2014
Why the CBC’s “review” of the Ghomeshi mess is a joke
1. It’s being done by someone who has regularly been a CBC contributor. 2. It’s not looking at the conduct of others who have been at CBC. It should. 3.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, November 5, 2014: Canada’s Senate passes controversial prostitution legislation C-36 Panel won’t dismiss charges against Manitoba judge…
Stephen Harper And Dean Del Mastro: The Bromance Continues
I think this video amply illustrates their relationship: Recommend this Post
Only Keep Things That Bring You Joy
Are you sick of tidying your place all the time? If you are, just stop. There’s no need to tidy if you go through all your items and only keep…
What’s New?
http://lawofwork.ca/ As the details of Stephen Harper’s income splitting plan are made public, it becomes clear how grotesque his “family friendly” policy is. Carol Goar writes that a small minority…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Reich discusses the right’s utter lack of – and aversion to – empathy as either a personal or political value. Bob Norman…
Karen Stintz, did Tory’s camp offer to pay you?
Joe Warmington: Did anybody offer to help pay you, or any of that? Karen Stintz: Uh, yeah. Karen Stintz: Well, you know, I’m learning in politics, that promises really aren’t…
John Doyle, writing about Ghomeshi but really about Canada’s politics
Yesterday, Carl Wilson served the chattering classes a pious, self-involved – and exceedingly poorly-written – piece about how he knew Jian Ghomeshi was abusing women, and how he didn’t do…
Climate Deniers In Congress Take 3.5 Times As Much Money From Dirty Energy Interests
As the US Environmental Protection Agency attempts to draw down emissions from power plants via its Clean Power Plan, fossil fuel interests are, of course, fighting back. A new special…
If there was ever a time…it is now.
If there was ever a time to save Canada from the destructive direction of the Harper Conservatives, it is now. If there was ever a time for the Liberal and…
Stephen Harper and the Dirty War on the Unions
It's a foul anti-union bill worthy of a Banana Republic or a tea bagger place like Alabama.It would strip unions of their privacy rights, bury them in paperwork, and cripple…
In Praise Of Political Correctness
Contrary to the widely held notion that being politically correct has a generally stifling effect, the results showed that a politically correct norm actually boosts the creative output of mixed-sex…
Mind-Numbing Sameness #nlpoli
The Conservatives were looking to the by-election in Conception bay South to break their losing streak. As it seems now as voters in the district head to the polls on…
Carbon Energy Is Dead, Wake Up?
The math is so easy. So why is BC ramping up coal and LNG production? STOP THEM! It really doesn’t get any simpler than this. Climate realities mean not ignoring…
The Bank of Canada Governor and the Young Canadian Slaves
About half the young Canadians I know are either unemployed or have lousy low paying jobs.Jobs with no guaranteed hours, no job security, no benefits, no nothing.They are exploited like…
Lawson’s Break with Thatcher Over Her Free Market Zealotry
Lawson is almost always introduced as Thatcher’s chancellor – but he was instrumental in her downfall. And once again, the tobacco and oil funded Institute of Economic Affairs and its…
The Annals of Irony: Those alleged Wildrose caucus recordings and Danielle Smith’s 1999 school board ‘opposition research’ escapade
A mean note found in a trashcan or a coffee cup and reassembled. Actual mean notes found in actual trashcans may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Former Wildrose MLA…
Suzuki: Constitutional right to healthy environment gaining traction
David Suzuki and Neil Young, who will team up in Vancouver for the “Blue Dot” tour (Photo: davidsuzuki.org) The idea of a right to a healthy environment is getting traction…