Wait Just a Second
What's that? All those new NATO partners in eastern Europe don't want to defend eastern Europe?The United States is asking Canada to join with it and the Germans and Brits…
June 2016
Physician Assisted Dying: How the SCC got there
It’s a paradox. Your right to die is an affirmation of your right to live. In a unanimous decision of astonishing clarity the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decided that…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on the Wall government's move to push poor Saskatchewan residents into social programs with counterproductive work requirements.For further reading...- Again, Betty Ann Adam reported here on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Coyne argues that the Senate's role in overruling elected representatives - which only seems to be growing under the Trudeau Libs -…
The shine on the B.C. Liberals’ liquefied natural gas dream has dulled considerably
It was a comfort to read this Times Colonist editorial driven in part by the appalling behaviour and economy with accuracy of Christy Clark’s LNG pimp Gordon Wilson. The former…
Ireland’s New Rising
Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Ireland
Ontario Adopts $8.3 Billion Climate Change Plan
Climate change is the biggest threat to human wellbeing and if we don’t do anything about it’s inevitable that society as we know it will collapse. This is why nations…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday June 9, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 9,…
A Satirical Indictment
Last night I had dinner with some of my retired teacher friends, two of whom used to make my lunch hours at school the highlight of my day, given our…
What’s with bicycles in Toronto?
We always agreed with the healthy aspects of cycling and never thought much about bike lanes on city streets. That was until city council’s passion for cycling got carried away.…
The most important victim impact statement I’ve ever read
I’m late to this, because I consciously avoided it. I didn’t want to read what she wrote, because I figured it would leave me wanting to drown the rapist swimmer…
Put It Out Of Its Misery
Tom Friedman believes that the Republican Party is morally bankrupt. He wrote this week in the New York Times, that it should be blown up and reconstructed from scratch:Today’s G.O.P.…
The Hypocrisy of Ezra Levant and the Limits of Free Speech
He is Canada's most notorious hate monger, and his ghastly Rebel site is a sewer of bigotry.But whether he is mocking the death of Jack Layton, or going after the…
The ‘eart of Darkness #nlpoli
No one would be surprised if a cell phone video turned up in the next few days on youtube showing Dwight Ball before he broke his silence and talked to…
What new laws did Alberta’s NDP government pass in Spring 2016?
The Spring session of the Alberta Legislature ended yesterday after forty-days of debate. The evacuation of more than 88,000 Albertans sparked by the wildfires in Fort McMurray dominated the attention…
Canada Post No Longer Delivering Your Ward News
Thanks in large part to the efforts of both Warren Kinsella (and those he marshaled in the effort) and Richard Warman, the neo-Nazi rag "Your Ward News" is going to…
Canada Post No Longer Delivering Your Ward News
Thanks in large part to the efforts of both Warren Kinsella (and those he marshaled in the effort) and Richard Warman, the neo-Nazi rag "Your Ward News" is going to…
Muhammad Ali rewrote the rule book for athletes as celebrities and activists
The late Muhammad Ali "was much bigger than boxing. He came, from the late 1960s onwards, to symbolise resistance to racism, militarism and inequality." The post Muhammad Ali rewrote the…
Farm advocates take Future of Farming on road
There are some meetings that you just do not want to miss, but somehow I missed this one. One of the main pushers to create the ALC was Harold Steeves…