Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Neil Irwin writes about the White House Council of Economic Advisers' study of employment policy which found that superior protections for workers (rather…
June 2016
Democratic Reform Committee Members Named
Although Minister Maryam Monsef has nothing about the makeup or members of the Electoral Reform Committee on the Democratic Institutions web site it seems that the MPs to serve on…
Democratic Reform Committee Members Named
Although Minister Maryam Monsef has nothing about the makeup or members of the Electoral Reform Committee on the Democratic Institutions web site it seems that the MPs to serve on…
Democratic Reform Committee Members Named
Although Minister Maryam Monsef has nothing about the makeup or members of the Electoral Reform Committee on the Democratic Institutions web site it seems that the MPs to sever on…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday June 21, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun…
The Truth is irrelevant
Quote from a fascinating Washington Post piece on Trump’s Muslim-hating strategy: He said it doesn’t matter that isn’t true. “It’s not about that,” he said. “Look, it’s an analogy.” The…
Isn’t That How Democracy Works?
Despite howling from the Conservatives and the Fraser Institute, Ottawa and the provinces have reached a deal to expand the Canada Pension Plan. A short time ago, such an outcome…
Kids Should Have a Summer of Boredom
There’s pressure put on parents to ensure that their children are constantly entertained and never “suffer” from boredom. Don’t worry parents! There’s no need to constantly entertain your offspring. Let…
BREXIT is not a breakfast cereal.
It is supposedly friendlier to call it “Brexit” than it is to refer to it as telling the European Union to “Get stuffed.” Yet it is amazing how the polyglot…
Stephen Harper and the Afghan Torture Scandal
For years there have been rumours that Stephen Harper knew that some of our soldiers in Afghanistan were torturing the prisoners they captured. Or did nothing to stop others torturing…
Public interest served by contract disclosure #nlpoli
There's no small irony that NAPE is fighting to increase public disclosure of government spending while other public sector unions are busily trying to drag the public back into the…
The Con Plan to Hurt the Old Goes Down in Flames
I can only imagine the frenzied state the scary Con Lisa Raitt must be in right now. But you can be sure it isn't pretty.And she is no doubt still…
In this week’s Hill Times: stop letting evil/crazy people get guns, for starters
Could Orlando have happened here? Well, we’ve got our share of Islamic terrorists here, of course: the attack on Parliament Hill, and several other attacks in the past decade, have…
Explaining how the right wing echo chamber operates … operates … operates … The Strange Case of the Canada Pension Plan
PHOTOS: “Alright, everyone, here’s what we’re gonna say: ‘Expanding the CPP is a solution in search of a problem.’ Everybody got that? Fraser? Check! APEC? Check! CFIB? Check! Taxpayers? Check!…
Climate change and the inevitable collapse of the over priced housing market
The ever increasing housing prices in Greater Vancouver and to a somewhat lesser extent Greater Victoria will eventually fall to the physical reality that what goes up must come down.…
Orage du 20 juin 2016
Incredible shot in Montreal by one of my favorite photographers, Mario Jean, also known as MADOC. Facebook page.
PEGIDA Canada Reaction To Orlando
It goes without saying that the mass murder that took place in Orlando last week horrified all decent people. Whether the murder was motivated by an extremist interpretation of Islam,…
PEGIDA Canada Reaction To Orlando
It goes without saying that the mass murder that took place in Orlando last week horrified all decent people. Whether the murder was motivated by an extremist interpretation of Islam,…
Canadian Youth Overcame Harper’s Fair Elections Act, Owned 2015 Federal Election
Brigette DePape was right when she vowed that “despite the Harper government making it harder for us to vote, young people are going to be the game-changers nobody saw coming”…
New Health Canada rules for gay men donating blood welcome, but still fundamentally flawed
Health Minister Jane Philpott (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) The long-standing rules barring men who have sex with men from donating blood in Canada are no longer valid. They haven’t been based…