Human rights activist and author Craig Murray wonders why, for the western corporate media, the Panama leak is all about Russian president Vladimir Putin. "Do not expect a genuine expose…
All eyes are on the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca. We've even named the scandal after their homeland, the Panama Papers. As I noted in my previous post, the…
As the decision is not widely available yet it is reproduced below in full:Citation: R. v. Takawgak, 2015 NUCJ 40 Date: 20151023 Docket: 11-13-29 Registry: Iqaluit Crown: Her Majesty the…
It went by barely noticed. Yesterday a spokesman for Canada's revenue minister said that the Canadian Revenue Agency has been given its marching orders, directed to do the math on…
Jonathan Kay knows what’s hurting the poor. Is it absurdly low welfare rates and social supports? Perhaps it is lack of access to affordable housing? Poverty wages? Food insecurity? Over-policing?…
There was an event years ago when the Liberal Party president and this writer were taking a rest after helping set up chairs for a large party meeting. And yes,…
It all began in 1945 with the "Trinity" test near Los Alamos. That was followed by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending WWII. It led Robert…
Foreign Policy magazine on the plight that has befallen Africa's petrostates. It does sound just a little familiar.Africa’s petrostates are crashing hard. A cool $115 in the summer of 2014,…
Remember this cover from Time magazine? It came out in 2006 but it wouldn't be out of place on newsstands today.Here are a few more climate change covers from Time:
The Star's Tim Harper reports that Kellie Leitch, one of the robotic but very malleable mainstays of the former Harper regime, has become the first declared candidate for the Conservative…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday April 5, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 5, 2016 at…
I’ll let you in on a secret: I kind of know, and kind of like, Brad Wall. I don’t do business in Saskatchewan in any way, shape or form. I…
The use of coal to generate electricity is coming to an end, and one of the many reasons coal’s time is up is thanks to divestment. Divestment of fossil fuels…
Oh well, I suppose it couldn't last forever. Justin Trudeau couldn't continue to reach new heights of popularity.Without having to wear an oxygen mask.So it seems that his long political…
One hundred and seventy pages of email correspondence between the town’s interim CAO, John Brown, and the Collus/Powerstream CEO, Ed Houghton, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, , 2015, were…
I'm glad to see that the Liberal government is vowing to go after those involved in the Panama Papers' scandal.Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier is vowing to investigate whether some Canadians…
This is the story of two politicians.One is a successful business man with major land developments in the works. He got into politics to defend his people against foreigners out…
Children, someone once observed, are the only known form of immortality. That rarely deters the makers of monuments, the curers of disease, the inventors and discoverers, the authors of books…
PHOTOS: Alison Redford, back in the day. … She haunts us still. Below: Former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci, former Alberta ethics commissioner Neil Wilkinson, Alberta Ethics Commissioner…
