Why Walking In The Woods Is Good For You
Exercise is good for you and nature is good for you too, so it’s only logical that combining both of them is really good for you. Over at CSGlobe they…
April 2016
No honours for Elizabeth at 90.
If the Brits really get lucky, Queen Elizabeth might outlive her son Charles. It seems that the British monarchy is holding up better than the country’s membership in the European…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday April 19, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 19, 2016 at 6:12am…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Scott Vrooman rightly makes the point that increased wealth at the top tends to splash outside a country's borders rather than trickling down.…
Justice For Omar Khadr
The Trudeau government recently announced that it would not pursue the appeal of Omar Khadr's release on bail. That's a good first step, Gerry Caplan writes. But there's more that…
Responsibility #nlpoli
In the middle of all the screaming as the government unveiled its budget on Thursday, the editor of a regional business magazine asked, apparently in all seriousness, "Biggest question of…
Motion demanding public support for private and charter schools backfires on Alberta Tory Leader
PHOTOS: Interim Alberta Tory Leader Ric McIver and another PC are ejected from the Legislature yesterday by the Sergeant at Arms. Actual Alberta MLAs may not appear exactly as illustrated.…
In this week’s Hill Times: Attawapiskat, and leaving home
CALGARY – What do you do when times get really bad where you are, and when your loved ones are at risk? Well, you either stay where you are, and…
Equal Pay Day
Every year, women around the world celebrate (angrily) the day their average full-time full-year earnings have caught up to men’s average full-time full-year earnings from the year before. This year…
Who Called Economics the "Dismal Science" and Why?
It's a phrase I won't be using again and, after reading this, I expect you won't either. The "dismal science" phrase was coined by a Scot, Thomas Carlyle, in the…
Maybe a Lot of What We Believe, Just Isn’t So.
Imagine reading a murder mystery that has three heroes, each of them a legendary sleuth, working independently to solve the same series of murders. At the conclusion, each detective comes…
I’m Just A Poor Boy, Nobody Loves Me
That famous line from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody might have been the inspiration, and is certainly the subtext, for James Forcillo and his lawyer's pleas that poor baby James be allowed…
April 18:"National NDP Should Heed Cardy…
Armchair Socialism Won't Fly." Wow!I saw that headline on Norbert Cunningham's column and thought, oh, I can have fun with this. But no such luck.Norbert not only doesn't know what…
Nick K.
After a long cold war, we achieved detente recently, and even had made plans to get together. Other, more important, things have now taken precedence, however. Wishing him and his…
Saudi Ambassador: Atheism = Subversion = Terrorism
Atheists are not terrorists. We need to start a Boycott-Divestment-Sanction campaign against Saudi Arabia similar to that started against Israel.
90% of world’s new electricity coming from renewables: Welcome to the end of the fossil fuel era
90% the world's new electricity now comes from renewables. China is shuttering 1,000 coal plants and global emissions are on the decline. The end is nigh for the fossil fuel…
Why the Oil to Tidewater Argument for Pipelines is Bunk
This article originally appeared on the Council of Canadians' website. If you follow mainstream media you’ve probably heard the argument ‘we need to get our oil to tidewater’ ad nauseam.…
Beltway Bullshit, my interview with JW Mason on Bernie’s economics
My interview with JW Mason on how wonk critics of Sanders’ economic ideas reinforce low expectations was transcribed for Jacobin under the great title, “Beltway Bullshit.” Michal Rozworski: There’s been…
Dirty Little Secrets – the Panama Papers
From the Fusion news organization, perhaps the best documentary yet on the Panama Papers.Fusion was one of the 100 news outlets entrusted with the Panama Papers. This documentary has obviously…
Aww, Poor Police
“That continuous accountability, continuously being in the public eye, and that having to be infallible … it puts a lot of pressure on our police officers, and contributes to their…