Coin Toss: Will blockchain undermine or buttress state power?
I have a review of Don and Alex Tapscott’s new book, Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business and the World in this month’s Literary Review…
July 2016
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Like Survival of Our Species
Climate change gonna getcha. Climate change gonna getcha.The Republican presidential nominee, the Orange Behemoth, Donald Trump, dismisses climate change as a hoax. He doesn't mean it, right? Wrong. He's even…
10 Reasons Ottawa Should Rebuild Our Environmental Assessment Law from Scratch
By Chris Tollefson for IRPP. The Trudeau government has recently announced a sweeping review process that could culminate in what has been described as “the most fundamental transformation of federal…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- France St-Hilaire, David Green and Craig Riddell offer some needed policy prescriptions to fight inequality in Canada:As first steps toward expanding the share of…
When You Seem to Have Tried Everything
They want us out of their backyards. Maybe that's a good idea. Why should we continue on with a murderous pissing contest that we cannot end?Sometimes it's best to stop…
Assuming Jurisdiction Over A Claim
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP v. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, 2016 SCC 30:Before a court can assume jurisdiction over a claim, a real and substantial connection must be shown…
Assuming Jurisdiction Over A Claim
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP v. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, 2016 SCC 30:Before a court can assume jurisdiction over a claim, a real and substantial connection must be shown…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday July 15, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
In dangerous times: What do you say? What do you do?
Hours after last night’s horror in Nice, France, I don’t know what to say or do. I’m just a guy with a web site and a newspaper column. I don’t…
Conservative contest continues contrarily.
It was another step backward towards the abyss. Ontario’s Tony Clement must have found a hat somewhere to throw into the ring of the Conservative leadership contest. It was a…
Bring On The Independents
Patrick Bazeau walked back into the Senate yesterday, the charges he faced having been dropped. What does that say about the government and the man that brought the charges? It's…
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the Great Dumb Fart-In
I know many progressives wish that the Democrats had a better candidate than Hillary Clinton to confront the dangerous demagogue Donald Trump.And like me wish that Bernie Sanders had won…
Rona Ambrose and the Disposable Canadians
Rona Ambrose did a lot of bad and stupid things during her years of faithful service to Stephen Harper's monstrous Con regime. And most of them were things that just…
Donald Trump is a bad role model
The latest Clinton ad is very simple and very effective. It lets Donald Trump speak for himself. -srbp-
from the front lines, day 11
On Thursday, striking Mississauga library workers visited various branches in the system to talk with members of the community. Here are some reports and pictures.Clarkson"Our group was quite small, but…
from the front lines, day 11
On Thursday, striking Mississauga library workers visited various branches in the system to talk with members of the community. Here are some reports and pictures.Clarkson"Our group was quite small, but…
Tim Tebow Says He Ain’t Speaking At RNC National Convention
There is a list, and he’s on it. But then there’s his Facebook message saying its all a rumor. But that’s a semi-official looking list. Did the Trump gang stick…
Tim Tebow Says He Ain’t Speaking At RNC National Convention
There is a list, and he's on it. But then there's his Facebook message saying its all a rumor. But that's a semi-official looking list. Did the Trump gang stick…
Tim Tebow Says He Ain’t Speaking At RNC National Convention
There is a list, and he's on it. But then there's his Facebook message saying its all a rumor. But that's a semi-official looking list. Did the Trump gang stick…
Outrage over Oil Sands appointment is a Tzeporah in a teapot
What do you get when you put some of the Canadian Oil Sands fiercest critics in the same room with its most vocal supporters? The Alberta Government’s new 18-member Oil…