What shapes what we care about and do politically?
How do we come to care about the things we care about, do the things we do? Sometimes, about some things, it's a slap in the face, a punch in…
May 2016
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Nick Dearden discusses how the latest wave of corporate power agreements - including the CETA - stands to undermine democracy in participating countries:Like the…
LawFact of the day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Monday May 30, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by null (@wiselaw) on May 30, 2016…
What’s The Best Sunscreen To Use?
In the northern half of the planet summer has started and people are feeling the burn. There’s no need to feel the burn if you practice good sun safety though.…
140Law – Legal Headlines for the Week Of May 30, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on TwitterBill Cosby Sexual Assault Trial Can Proceed, Judge RulesInnovation finally sprouts in Canada’s legal garden following a pessimistic FebruaryMike Duffy’s…
About that Tory convention, and marriage
It looked like they had a good one – a great one, even. Even CBC says so. I have a column about them, and their convention, in today’s Hill Times.…
The Liberal Party is not computer competent yet.
Before you think the writer is a computer Luddite, it should be mentioned that we spent a lengthy business career explaining computers and computer software through the media. Our last…
The Con Convention and the Rapture of Jason Kenney
Lordy. Judging by the reaction of the Cons and their stooges in the media, you'd think the Harper Party's convention was such a great success they had all died and…
The Party Of The Young
Tim Harper wrote his last column yesterday. In it, he reviewed the state of Canada's three major parties -- which have all held conventions in the last four months:The three…
The Running Man #nlpoli
With questions swirling about what Premier Dwight Ball knew about severance payments to former Nalcor boss Ed Martin and when he knew it, Ball has asked the province's auditor general…
For Wildrose, “Mr. Wynne” Facebook comment was last straw for Derek Fildebrandt
A statement released late on Friday night announced that Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean had suspended Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt from the Official Opposition Caucus. As AlbertaPolitics.ca author David Climenhaga…
South Africa helping Fort McMurray: A new chapter in diplomatic relations? #ymmfire
By the time Fort McMurray was evacuated this spring, Canada had suffered its worst wildfire in generations. Images of the small Canadian city engulfed in flames went viral, as frightened…
South Africa helping Fort McMurray: A new chapter in diplomatic relations? #ymmfire
By the time Fort McMurray was evacuated this spring, Canada had suffered its worst wildfire in generations. Images of the small Canadian city engulfed in flames went viral, as frightened…
South Africa helping Fort McMurray: A new chapter in diplomatic relations?
By the time Fort McMurray was evacuated this spring, Canada had suffered its worst wildfire in generations. Images of the small Canadian city engulfed in flames went viral, as frightened…
Fantastic Night In Verdun
Friday evening was a celebration of a wonderful project started over a year ago by the Comité d’action des citoyennes et citoyens de Verdun (CACV). The basic idea is to
Ride of the Dammed: the organizers and support people deserve a medal
As bike rides go, my first Ride of the Dammed was pretty good. As an adventure it was spectacular. My team endured four flats, one tire-touching ditch crash and one…
Dividing Up the Family Home
Ms Soapbox and her sister Elle are on Vancouver Island visiting the folks. (Elle is not her real name but she values her privacy and bites and throws things if…
Don’t Be Fooled the Cons Are Still the Bigot Party
I see the Cons are trying to make us believe that dropping their long held opposition to same-sex marriage means that they are now a new/nouveau party.The Conservative Party gave…
Pacifying Palestinians and Pacifying the World
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Jeff Halper Pluto Press, 2015 Jeff Halper is an unusual hybrid presence on both the scholarly and political scene. He…
Faith in Big Trade Deals Keeps Crumbling
Photo from Public Domain At the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s, full page ads promised the deal would bring “more jobs, better…