Got Coal? The Burning Problem with Canada’s Port Authorities
Canada’s major ports handle more than 300 million tonnes of cargo every year. They’re how we import products like cars and TVs and how we export commodities like grain and…
March 2016
CVRD Senior Staff Hire Lawyer To Impede Independent Cowichan Bay Director Lori Iannidinardo
Peter Rusland’s story on the Bamberton LNG contoversy was originally published in the South Cowichan Echo. Peter Rusland Unanimous opposition by Cowichan’s regional directors to Steelhead LNG’s proposed floating facility…
Got Coal? The Burning Problem with Canada’s Port Authorities
Canada’s major ports handle more than 300 million tonnes of cargo every year. They’re how we import products like cars and TVs and how we export commodities like grain and…
The Ghost of Pierre Trudeau Hovers Over the Son
In The Tyee, Murray Dobbin ponders what Pierre Trudeau would make of the Dauphin and his party's support for the Tory resolution condemning the Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaign against…
We’ve Robbed Them of Their Future, We’ve Helped Ourselves to Their Present and Their Past to Boot. Shhh, Keep That to Yourself.
If you've got kids in their 30s you know what's happening. Trust The Guardian to make a big deal of it.A combination of debt, joblessness, globalisation, demographics and rising house…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Monday March 7, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law. #torontolawyers #legaladvice #wiselaw #employmentlaw #torontoA video posted by @wiselaw on…
Meltdown?
Think of it as the central bank of central banks, the Bank of International Settlements, the all seeing eye.These days the eye sees trouble on the horizon for the global…
Climate Change, It’s Just So Damned Boring.
Another day, another record, until the record themselves seem to blur into near meaninglessness.Yes, last month was warmer than all the other months by that name since records were recorded.…
BREAKING: the new-look www.warrenkinsella.com
The way we were. It being year fifteen around here, and it thusly being time, I have decided – as previously hinted – to do a major revamp of www.warrenkinsella.com.…
Miss tuxedo cat and her wonderful tail
A long-haired queen tuxedo cat, born in a window well, she always looks maniacally alert because she thinks everything is going to eat her. Domesticated enough that she has a…
Positioning the Liberal Party.
It is nothing unusual today when the Prime Minister sends you a note, calling you by your first name, and asking for your help. What is unusual is the e-mail…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of March 7, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Shakeup coming for Toronto CASToronto lawyer, disbarred in California, fighting to keep Ontario law licenceTrump shifts position on torture, says…
India’s Solar Energy Plan a Shining Success
India consumes a lot energy and consumption keeps growing as their economy expands. They also rely heavily on coal. The government knows that their current form of energy production causes…
More On Freelands’s Double-Speak
Recently, I wrote a post about CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; part of it examined the double-speak of Chrystia Freeland when she talked about both the protection of…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Don Pittis rightly notes that there can be a significant difference between an economy trumpeted as growing due to share prices and profits, and…
What goes into a web/analytics report for higher ed?
Last week, I posted about Key Performance Indicators for independent school and higher ed admission advertising. Those figures can be used together to measure the performance of online advertising efforts…
Dealing With The Donald
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/This is the week Mr. Trudeau goes to Washington. D...
diego is on tv! (and dogtopia is amazing.)
When we dropped off Tala and Diego for their vacation, a film crew from Breakfast Television was there. The results are here, and Diego is all over that video! (There…
The Trump Phenomenon #nlpoli
The gaggle of American political scientists at the Monkey Cage have been doing a series of posts about Donald Trump's campaign for the republican nomination.They started with a post that…