May This Day Never Come
I pray we never get to the day when scenes like the following become so commonplace that we regard them with only the passing interest we might today express in…
June 2016
Is there life after Brexit?
While Babel-0n-the-Bay was urged to produce a morning line on the Brexit vote, the decision was made that it was far too close to forecast. And it was. Along with…
Brain Damaged
The Harperites have never liked the courts or judges. Michael Harris writes:Remember Stephen Harper’s attack on Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin — the one that had her squirmin’ in…
Jason Kenney’s Obscene Brexit Celebration
As you know I've been complaining about how Jason Kenney seems to be everywhere these days. The MSM just can't get enough of him.One moment he's on his burro preparing…
The Brexit Referendum and the Independence of Scotland
I knew the LEAVE side was going to win the Brexit referendum hours before the polls closed.When I heard that the poor who live in the Britain's rundown Council estates…
Brexit vote fundamentally undermines Britain and the EU
By voting for Brexit, the UK has "opted for a form of ritual suicide, but one which will destroy others in its wake, fundamentally undermining the EU, the most progressive…
Musical interlude
Pearson & Hirst - Endor
Donald Trump’s Incredibly Idiot Day in Scotland
In one of my last posts I tried to explain why most Scots hate Donald Trump so much.And why so many are planning to protest his visit. And now that…
June 24:Brexit – What we don’t know…
We commonly speak of people as being semitic or anti-semitic. And we're usually wrong because semite does not mean Jewish. It refers to people who speak a number of similar…
Bogus Brokerage Bull, and Other Online Obstructions
“by keeping that purchase threshold at $20 instead of giving Canadian shoppers a break and raising it to $80, Ottawa spends about $166 million to collect $39 million in additional…
What is done: quick thoughts on Brexit
What is done is done regardless of where you were on the referendum—or like most of us, outside the UK. The two questions that grab me now are what lessons…
Scotland Reacts
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced there'll be a second independence referendum in the wake of yesterday's Brexit vote.
Deep Breaths. The World Didn’t End – Not Yet.
If there was ever a time to revive the iconic 1939 poster it just could be now. Then, Britain faced Hitler, the Nazi horde and six sometimes terrifying years of…
Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to…
Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to…
Adler-Kinsella Show: in which we don’t discuss Brexit, because we didn’t think it would happen
…but we talked about Chretien and other things. There are some surprises in here, if you care to listen.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- In the wake of yesterday's Brexit vote, David Dayen points out how the failure of technocratic policy left many voters believing they had nothing…
Supreme Court holds tribunal finding is entitled to deference
British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal) v. Fraser Health Authority, 2016 SCC 25:The standard of review applicable to a tribunal's original decision requires curial deference, absent a finding of fact…
Supreme Court holds tribunal finding is entitled to deference
British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal) v. Fraser Health Authority, 2016 SCC 25:The standard of review applicable to a tribunal's original decision requires curial deference, absent a finding of fact…
Brexit implications. . . .
Watching England vote to leave the European Union is a strange experience. It is one of those events which leave you dazed and confused but which may, a few years…