Homecoming & Double Standards
Are small towns able to deal with Homecoming events that chew up property values and perpetuate double standards with enforcement and other costs?
June 2016
Why Some Love Cities And Others Love The Country
The idea that cities are inherently stressful or that the country is inherently calming isn’t so cut and dry. Some people find the excitement of urban living as not only…
Applying a Business Plan to Family Caregiving Gives Comfort to All
Family caregiving: a powerful and touching way for you to give back and express all the hope, love, and support that your loved ones have given you when you were…
Applying a Business Plan to Family Caregiving Gives Comfort to All
Family caregiving: a powerful and touching way for you to give back and express all the hope, love, and support that your loved ones have given you when you were…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment LawA video posted by null (@wiselaw) on Jun 1, 2016 at…
What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend's Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first "female" Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell. It…
What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend’s Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first “female” Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell.It was…
What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend's Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first "female" Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell.It was…
What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend's Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first "female" Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell.It was…
A minister resigns, plus Ottawa after dark
I wish him and his family luck. Ottawa doesn’t make this kind of problem easy. On the Hill, the hours are crazy. So are the demands on you and your…
Bill Blair, won’t you please come home?
We never have been able to find Bill Blair when we needed him. Back when Bill was Toronto Police Chief in 2010, he was nowhere to be found when his…
The Dinner Guest Who Refuses To Leave
Last week's G7 Conference did nothing to stimulate the world's economy -- even though the IMF says that economic stimulus is what the world needs badly. Tom Walkom writes:The International…
TVO’s The Agenda: A Culture of Corruption?
Is corruption endemic in the political and economic classes? I joined TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, to discuss the extent and potential remedies to corruption in Canada's public institutions.
O Canada. Because it’s 2016.
For the 13th time since 1980, the House of Commons is debating changing the national anthem. The first 12 tries were defeated, but this time it might actually pass. The…
O Canada. Because it’s 2016.
For the 13th time since 1980, the House of Commons is debating changing the national anthem. The first 12 tries were defeated, but this time it might actually pass. The…
The Day The Opposition Losers Decided Not To Punish Justin Trudeau
Well I see that after threatening to punish Justin Trudeau for his role in the so-called elbowgate kerfuffle.And either suspend him or humiliate him. Or hopefully hang him.The Cons and…
Anger Ball
Premier Dwight Ball got angry on Tuesday.He's angry at the suggestion that he approved paying severance to Ed Martin.Well, really he's angry at is how much Martin wound up getting…
Overwhelming Majority Opposed to Proposed Steelhead LNG-Malahat Nation
Nearly 600 people attended North Saanich Council’s Town Hall meeting in Sidney Tuesday afternoon-evening. The overwhelming majority were opposed to the Steelhead LNG-Malahat Nation proposal for Bamberton. Standing applause for…
Dr. Verna Yiu named Alberta Health Services CEO No. 8 in 8 years – can she fix what 7 couldn’t?
PHOTOS: Dr. Verna Yiu, who was officially named yesterday as the eighth president and CEO of Alberta Health Services in as many years. Below: AHS Board Chair Linda Hughes and…