Lessons From Weimar
In the wake of the Republican Convention, Charles Dermer writes that there are three lessons progressives should remember about the failure of Weimar Germany:First, the German Left splintered and failed…
July 2016
The Continuing Adventures of the Annoying Oil Pimp Brad Wall
Canada's premiers have made more progress in the last few months than they made in the almost ten years Stephen Harper ruled this country.And they do have good reason to…
Elizabeth May Calls Out Trudeau on Corexit
Maybe Trudeau and McKenna thought no one would notice. They thought wrong. Almost as soon as Environment Canada quietly announced it had approved Corexit for use as an oil dispersant…
Adler-Kinsella Show: US politics is a circus and Trump is P. T. Barnum
And apologies to Mr. Cruz, still not dead.
Another review of Economics for Everyone, 2nd ed.
Here’s another review of Jim Stanford’s Economics for Everyone, 2nd edition, this one by guest contributor and MMT aficionado Larry Kazdan. Review of Jim Stanford’s /Economics for Everyone by Larry…
July 22: Us Very Imperfect Humans.
Again, I shall be off to sea and sand for this weekend.__________________________________________________________________________Man murders 50 in Orlando nightclub. News media go wild for days, even weeks, in covering it.Two men murder…
Working on speech about Trump for Humanist Association tonight in Ottawa
Here’s how to beat him, I think.
An accused may discharge counsel at any time and the Court may not block such
It may be the trial will proceed without counsel but that's another issue. R. v. Chemama, 2016 ONCA 579: An accused has an unfettered right to discharge his or her…
An accused may discharge counsel at any time and the Court may not block such
It may be the trial will proceed without counsel but that's another issue. R. v. Chemama, 2016 ONCA 579: An accused has an unfettered right to discharge his or her…
Walk # 9
“After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan Starting Point: Dollard and Newman in Lasalle. Bus let me off here. Headed south on Dollard
Hawaii Utilities Commission Shoots Down Plan To Import LNG from B.C.
Count on Hawaii — tied for No. 1 as the the state with the highest percentage of renewable energy — to deliver yet another blow to B.C.’s lofty liquefied natural…
A TV Show Goes to Washington
According to a report in The New York Times, Donald Trump plans to abdicate his role as president just as soon as he redecorates the Oval Office to pimp it…
To State The Obvious
... the world is getting hotter. And now that Southern Ontario, already plagued by drought, is in the midst of yet another heatwave, it seems like the right time to…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday July 22, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
What has Trump left to say?
The party is over in Cleveland. The Republican Party is no longer the Grand Old Party. It is the party of Donald Trump. We endured his over-long rant on Thursday…
Donald Trump and the Nightmare in America
I think I've mentioned this before. I once had a lot of trouble calling Donald Trump a fascist.I didn't want to diminish the word. Or the suffering of its many…
Leadership and Ideals
Rick Salutin speculates this morning that we may be living in a non-leadership moment. Consider what has happened in the United States:It’s tempting to say Donald Trump is all leader…
In-house and cheap #nlpoli
Provincial government communications consists chiefly of making up vacuous comments for ministers to recite.They are called key messages. In the uncomms-speak of the government bureaucrats, they are KMs, pronounced Kay-Emmzzz.On…
The future of the information commissioner #nlpoli
Donovan Molloy will be the new information and privacy commissioner. He'll do a fine job, to be sure, but there is something about the appointment that seems a waste of…
Brad Wall Government’s Saskatchewan beer trade piffle turns out to be all fizz and no flavour
ILLUSTRATIONS: A group of Albertans enjoying one of our province’s excellent craft beers, unfortunately unavailable in Saskatchewan because of the province-to-the-right’s unfair trade practices. (The Wikipedia illustration is actually of…