SlawTips: Use Skype to Strengthen Lawyer-Client Rapport
It crept up on us slowly, but Skype has become an indispensable technology in the modern law firm’s toolbox. A bit of historical context will set the stage: Launched in…
February 2015
Not a Fiscall But a Deficit of Empathy That Spreads Misery Across the Land
The thing about using the economy as the measure of all things is that in doing we institutionalize unbridled greed as the guiding force for our society. It takes a…
Did the invasion of Iraq cause the rise of ISIL?
Before 2001 Iraq was a Ba’athist dictatorship dominated by a religious minority. Neighboring Syria was also a Ba’athist dictatorship dominated by a religious minority. In 2002 Iraq was invaded by…
Seccareccia on Greece, Austerity and the Eurozone
Over at the blog of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Ottawa U professor Mario Seccareccia has given an interview titled “Greece Shows the Limits of Austerity in the Eurozone.…
Somewhere, political war rooms are rejoicing
About this: “Twitter is expected on Thursday to announce a new partnership with Google, clearing the way for tweets on the microblogging service to be easier to find on the…
Stephen Houdini
http://www.biography.com/ Like Harry Houdini, Stephen Harper has built his career on illusion. His chief accomplishment has been to convince a significant number of Canadians that he is someone he is…
Stephen Harper and the Hypocrisy of Great Warrior Leader
As we all know Stephen Harper is trying to make us believe that we are at war with a giant Jihadi conspiracy. And that only he can save us from…
Politics of opportunism
In a Times Colonist Op-Ed, Bercove, Madden and Coste wrote, We have the choice between trying to build an industry of uncertain benefit based on a finite resource that is…
The 20 Safest Cities in the World
The Economist safe cities list (pdf link) has been released and the results are pretty neat! There are some cities that you’d expect to be there and some surprise too!…
Elections and Voting #nlpoli
Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador (2015) – Part 4 The politicians in the province share a lot of common views and tend to agree on most things despite being…
Ever Wonder How the 1% Talks to Each Other? Shhh. Listen!
It’s not a secret language, it’s a style, an effervescence. A whimsicality. It’s like how people stand when they’re shopping in Tiffany’s. You feel me? Read on about a new…
Weak-kneed opposition lets Conservative terror bill sail through: Walkom
Justin Trudeau Chokes on Anti Terror Bill C 51 By: Thomas Walkom National Affairs, Published on Tue Feb 03 2015 When Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his new anti-terror bill…
Five Poll Results That Are Gonna Cause Oil Execs Some Headaches
Alberta Oil Magazine just published its National Survey on Energy Literacy, the culmination of 1,396 online interviews of a representative sample of Canadians conducted by Leger. The results are particularly…
Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper’s Terror Trap
It's a bitter pill to swallow. Stephen Harper's anti-terrorist Bill C-51 is deeply flawed, threatens our civil liberties and our internet freedom.But if progressives don't want to risk handing Harper…
Easy road to nowhere
February 4, The Tyee published an article by Torrance Coste: Raw Log Exports: A Made-in-BC Problem that’s Only Getting Worse. Work here that relied on reports from BC Stats helped…
Chevron pulls back on BC LNG work amid slumping energy prices
Artist’s rendering of proposed Kitimat LNG project Read this Jan. 30 story from Bloomberg on Chevron, the latest would-be LNG investor in BC to get cold feet amid slumping oil…
Obama Comes Clean. Putin Didn’t Plot to Seize Crimea.
Go Ahead, Pick One. Oh my, my, what comes out of the mouth of that man! The Western narrative we’ve been force fed by liars like Harper and his collaborators…