A Dipper writes his party president re leadership
As one of those federal New Democratic Party members who feels we should stop floating across the political spectrum looking for a place to park that offers an election victory…
March 2016
Images from Your Ward News
Here are just a few images taken from recent issues of this homophobic, racist, misogynistic, Holocaust-denying hate sheet, now being distributed to half of Toronto by Judy Foote’s Canada Post.…
Time For A Shakeup At The CVRD
Longtime CVRD Director Loren Duncan served Glenora-Sahtlam-Cowichan Station for a hundred years, more or less. He offered his take on the trials and tribulations of Cowichan Bay’s CVRD Director Lori…
Justin, Meet Andrew – and Reality
The Trudeau government has just given the go-ahead on liquid natural gas exports from British Columbia. He probably got an earful of how LNG was going to resurrect BC's economy…
Electoral Reform
Perhaps with everything else going on your interest in electoral reform may be flagging. A good way to rejuvenate your electoral spirits is the 2016 report of the Electoral Integrity…
Will Neoliberalism Die Where It Was Born?
For a good many of us, those under 40 certainly, neoliberalism in all its permutations is all we've ever known. Free market fundamentalism, corporatism, globalization all seem like components of…
When is Evil Banal?
It was, if memory serves, in relation to Eichmann that Hannah Arendt coined the now famous phrase "the banality of evil." Most of have seen more than one example of…
When if Evil Banal?
It was, if memory serves, in relation to Eichmann that Hannah Arendt coined the now famous phrase "the banality of evil." Most of have seen more than one example of…
Sedition? Not Quiet, Not Yet, But….
Chris Hedges has been very open in his call for a second revolution in his homeland. He even sees Bernie Sanders as a threat.Bernie Sanders’ political corpse in the presidential…
"The Future Is Happening Now"
The warning to the leaders of the world couldn't be plainer. The future is happening now, so deal with it.That's the message from the World Meteoroligical Organization in its Status…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- James Ayre points out Radoslaw Stefanski's study as to how cutting off fossil fuel subsidies subsidies (among other public policy preferences) would go a…
LawFact of the Day: Civil Litigation
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Monday March 21, 2016. Today we are talking about Civil Litigation.A video posted by @wiselaw on Mar 21, 2016 at 6:27am…
Organic scribble
…becomes, oh, I don’t always, sometimes ever, know, what these things mean. But they do, after a time, take on a meaning.Filed under: art
Like The Morning Dew
In the last election, Justin Trudeau ran as the Protector of the Environment. That claim took a serious hit last week when his government approved the Woodfibre LNG plant near…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of March 21, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Toronto man who was granted right to doctor-assisted death has died Hulk Hogan gets $115M in sex tape lawsuit against…
Ontario Converting Coal Plant to Solar Farm
A few years ago Ontario stopped all of its coal powered plants because, you know, climate change and all that. Other jurisdictions around the world are similarly halting the use…
The death of journalism.
We are told that journalism is dying. It was supposed to have chronicled centuries. Journalism, as we knew it, was born in the 19th Century, came to fruition in the…
Best social media monitoring tools for higher ed
A bit of a shorter post. I just wanted to note that the gigantic field of dozens of social media monitoring platforms has slimmed to under ten “top” tools for…
Rona Ambrose and the Con’s Ghastly Deficit Game
As you know Rona Ambrose is the interim leader of the Cons, and she claims that it's now a totally new/nouveau party.But sadly for Rona she inherited the remnants of…
How to say little in 34 slides #nlpoli
Consultants have consistently reported that the Muskrat Falls project is well-managed and well-led.Despite that independent analysis, MFP has been dogged by significant cost over-runs, significant problems with performance on meeting…