Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Neil MacDonald discusses the unfairness in allowing a wealthy class of individuals to set up its own rules, while Jeffrey Sachs notes that…
May 2016
New column day
Here, on how Justin Trudeau's control over the federal electoral reform committee looks to extend a familiar pattern of top-down government into the design of our electoral system. (And I'll…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 12, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on May 12, 2016 at 6:11am…
In The Service Of Truth
There are many truths today that, thanks to the almost reflexive, visceral response of an often vitriolic social media, few dare to speak. Most recently, linking the terrible fires in…
Can you order someone to submit to sexual assault?
Kathryn Borel says someone did just that to her. Borel, as you probably know, was the complainant in the second Jian Ghomeshi trial, the one that had been slated to…
We can also vote for stagnation.
Sometimes humans argue just for the sake of a good argument. It keeps us alive and alert. A friend in Barrie, for example, loves to argue in favour of proportional…
Who Should They Serve?
Your local post office used to be a bank -- until 1968. That's when Canada Post got out of the banking business. But, Linda McQuaig writes, there are good reasons…
Electoral Reform and The Final Destruction of the Cons
It's been almost seven months since Stephen Harper and his foul Con regime came crashing down.And I'm still celebrating that happy day. But I've also been patiently waiting for another…
Up the harbour and down the shore… once more #nlpoli
Here's another one that started life as a column at the old Independent. And, as with "The politics of history" is can serve as a reminder of just how little…
Why Nova Scotia Should Stop Honouring a War Criminal
For eighty-five years the statue of Lieutenant General Edward Cornwallis has loomed over a park in Halifax.To honour him for being the first governor of Nova Scotia, and the founder…
The Ghomeshi Apology and the Shame of the CBC
And so it ends, for him. Jian Ghomeshi has apologized, and avoided another trial for sexual assault.Jian Ghomeshi stood before an open court today and apologized for his "sexually inappropriate"…
“Jian Ghomeshi is guilty”, Kathryn Borel says in post-sexual assault charges statement
Kathryn Borel: "Every day, over the course of a three year period, Mr. Ghomeshi made it clear to me that he could do what he wanted to me and my…
CVRD Back In Court Over Seeking To Overturn SIA’s Ability To Dump Contaminated Soil
The continuing saga over the disputed shipments of contaminated soil to South Island Aggregates Shawnigan Watershed location continued in Vancouver court action Monday. Lehanna Green an ardent opponent of the…
Nikiforuk Calls "Bullshit" on Trudeau
Andrew Nikiforuk is Canada's top journalist on the subject of oil politics. The author and veteran scribe for The Tyee has a piece on Justin Trudeau in Foreign Policy magazine.Nikiforuk's…
The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort McMurray and Attawapiskat
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First…
The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort McMurray and Attawapiskat
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First…
The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort McMurray and Attawapiskat
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First…
The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort McMurray and Attawapiskat
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First…
Rare Courage
My hat is off to Liberal MP Rob Oliphant who has announced he won't support the Trudeau government's watered down bill on medically assisted death.Oliphant, who chaired the committee that…