What Will We Think of the Banks in Years to Come?
IN this TED talk, Michael Metcalfe wonders how will we look back on banks in the future. Will we think of the banks as an unethical industry that contributed greatly…
August 2016
Snippet from next week’s expense-account-free column
Gratis. No one will listen, however. No one ever listens to me. ** Back when he was Liberal leader, I worked for Jean Chrétien. I was his Special Assistant. I wrote…
Justin Trudeau has his Angels.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau certainly has his angels. We are talking the kind of angels that Charlie had in the old television series about Charlie’s Angels. Those were flesh and…
The TFW Program
The Liberals have vowed to reform the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. John McCallum is making noises about developing a pathway to citizenship for them. But the program is a minefield…
The TFW Program
The Liberals have vowed to reform the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. John McCallum is making noises about developing a pathway to citizenship for them. But the program is a minefield…
The Con Media’s Disgusting Attack on the Trudeau Government
Yesterday I wrote about how Rona Ambrose and her Cons were going after the decent Health Minister Jane Philpott for having rented a limo Lexus to travel around the Greater…
The Con Media’s Disgusting Attack on the Trudeau Government
Yesterday I wrote about how Rona Ambrose and her Cons were going after the decent Health Minister Jane Philpott for having rented a limo Lexus to travel around the Greater…
Same circus #nlpoli
Somewhere in Newfoundland and Labrador, someone may not have heard the news.There is oil and natural gas in the ground under water off our coast.Never mind that this has been…
Same circus #nlpoli
Somewhere in Newfoundland and Labrador, someone may not have heard the news.There is oil and natural gas in the ground under water off our coast.Never mind that this has been…
Twelve pillars of a “next generation” of Canadian environmental assessment
Thursday, August 25, 2016 Canada needs a visionary new approach to assessing proposals that could ...
Twelve pillars of a “next generation” of Canadian environmental assessment
Thursday, August 25, 2016 Canada needs a visionary new approach to assessing proposals that could ...
News you may have missed: pollster says Alberta NDP could win an election held tomorrow!
PHOTOS: Albertans scour the Alberta media for information about provincial politics, but they’re all getting exactly the same story. Actual politically engaged Albertans may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below:…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Dayen wonders whether the Obama administration's decision to end the use of private prisons might represent the needed start of a movement away…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Dayen wonders whether the Obama administration's decision to end the use of private prisons might represent the needed start of a movement away…
Walk # 15 – The Point Part 2
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” ― Søren Kierkegaard It’s true, walking will
Premier Phonying It In, With Respect to SaskTel
“Will be changed with respect to ? No.” – Wall (March 2016) “There’s something we signed on to called the Crown Corporation Protection Act, or to that effect. Basically, it…
August 24: "Beer sales rocket close to Nova Scotia border".
That is a front page story in today's irving press. And it doesn't get any better.Norbert Cunningham has an amusing column on New Brunswick's 'incoherent' job strategy. But I'm here…
August 24: "Beer sales rocket close to Nova Scotia border".
That is a front page story in today's irving press. And it doesn't get any better.Norbert Cunningham has an amusing column on New Brunswick's 'incoherent' job strategy. But I'm here…
Rafe: With May staying on, what’s next for the Green Party?
Photo: Laurel L Russwurm/Flickr Whither the Green Party of Canada after its recent convulsion? In order to answer that question I think it must be understood, perhaps conceded is the…
Why Trudeau Should Call Off the Reviews of Trans Mountain and Energy East
The National Energy Board is fundamentally broken. That was a point repeatedly highlighted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the 2015 federal election — and one confirmed for many with…