Site C, LNG Break Trudeau’s Promise to First Nations
This is a guest post by Damien Gillis, documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Common Sense Canadian where this article first appeared. It all started off so well. Justin Trudeau…
March 2016
Trudeau on Ghomeshi
Justin Trudeau, showing considerable wisdom and restraint. I am impressed.
Ghomeshi and Canada’s New Criminal Code
Clearly, we need an overhaul of Canada’s criminal code, with a feminist lens. Men sure get off easy, right Mr. Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi, Bill Cosby, rape culture should be helping guide…
No Surprise, Ghomeshi Aquitted
This trial will be remembered as a pinnacle of prosecutorial and investigatorial incompetence.Ghomeshi has been acquitted of all three charges. He is a free man.Will he again climb the ranks…
My readers called it
And what the judge said: the complainant “breached her oath.” Wow. Is the Crown now compelled to explore whether perjury occurred? Extraordinary.
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday March 24, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Mar 24, 2016 at 7:11am…
New column day
Here, on what the Trudeau Libs' first budget tells us about the difficulty turning around a government - and how Saskatchewan voters should take the lesson to heart in deciding…
Don’t bet your pay cheque on this budget
To be honest, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, you did nothing wrong. Listening to your preamble on the budget the other day, you said that hope is possible. You talked about…
What will be the Ghomeshi verdict?
My view has always been the same: he’ll be acquitted. He may be reptilian, but the three complainants were an unmitigated disaster in Court, and the Crown was almost as…
20-mph Speed Limit Coming To Edinburgh
Drivers often argue for higher speed limits thinking that it will allow them to get around faster. Unfortunately that logic usually isn’t true and when speed limits are increased then…
Not A Comforting Thought
The conventional wisdom seems to be that, if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off against each other in November, Hillary will win. Gerry Caplan isn't so sanguine. He writes:Hillary…
What Bernie Sanders Has Accomplished
Here is an op ed in the Star on what we might learn from the Bernie Sanders camPaign
The Dark and Desperate Cons and the Sunny Budget
Wherever Rona Ambrose goes at the stroke of midnight to receive her instructions from Stephen Harper.You know that both of them must be screaming with frustration at the sight of…
The Office of Steve Kent
26 public meetings.More than 1,000 people showed up for them.More than 28,000 people used the government website that the folks at the Office of Steve Kent call an app to…
Bald Eagles break injunction,build nest in the path of Site C clearing.
Readers may be aware that late March 23, the website 'No Strings Attached: Laila Yuile on politics and life in B.C.' was taken down by a malicious attack aimed at…
A long overdue budget break for the CBC
Of all the items in the new federal budget, the one that jumped out at me, and caused a whoop of delight, was the $675-million over five years of new…
A long overdue budget break for the CBC
Of all the items in the new federal budget, the one that jumped out at me, and caused a whoop of delight, was the $675-million over five years of new…
A long overdue budget break for the CBC
Of all the items in the new federal budget, the one that jumped out at me, and caused a whoop of delight, was the $675-million over five years of new…