Half Measures Aren’t Enough to Save Canada’s Caribou
Alberta is home to two of Canada’s imperilled caribou populations, the southern mountain and boreal woodland herds. Both are threatened with extinction. Under the federal Species at Risk Act, the…
Alberta is home to two of Canada’s imperilled caribou populations, the southern mountain and boreal woodland herds. Both are threatened with extinction. Under the federal Species at Risk Act, the…
Alberta is home to two of Canada’s imperilled caribou populations, the southern mountain and boreal woodland herds. Both are threatened with extinction. Under the federal Species at Risk Act, the…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday August 3, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Aug 3,…
Yesterday, in response to my post about the Trudeau government's diluting the terms of the rules governing the export of arms, frequent commentator Pamela MacNeil offered these insightful observations: I…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Atrios offers a reminder as to how means-testing tends to make social programs more vulnerable to attack without making our overall tax system more…
From MSNBC this morning: Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can’t use nuclear weapons, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an…
Bob Rae writes in today's Globe and Mail that the American election will be all about voter turnout:The rise of Barack Obama, like that of Justin Trudeau in Canada, was…
Skyscrapers have been made out of concrete, glass, and steel since the first skyscraper was built. Before these building materials were used it was impossible to build that high –…
Psychiatrists tell us that one of the motivations for jihadists is the notoriety. They seem to consider the death and destruction as a measure of their success. Maybe that is…
Speaking about his popularity and the loyalty of his supporters: "They say that I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."…
Elections Alberta has released initial campaign finance disclosures from the March 22, 2016 by-election in the Calgary-Greenway constituency. The by-election was held following the death of PC MLA Manmeet Bhullar,…
In the eleven years since I started publishing this blog, I have almost entirely focused on Alberta politics. But while my writing focuses on provincial politics here at home, like…
The controversy surrounding the Cowichan Community Centre Commissions decision to remove the grand old big leaf maple on James Street to accommodate a new parking lot design continues. Frankly, much…
Clutched cats.
...I am starting it late due to a series of computer disasters. Fortunately, there's really nothing to say about today irving press.Zip-bang headline for the lead story of the day…
...I am starting it late due to a series of computer disasters. Fortunately, there's really nothing to say about today irving press.Zip-bang headline for the lead story of the day…
You’ve probably heard it said that we can have both a healthy environment and a healthy economy. Usually, these words are spoken by environmentalists in response to those that claims…
You’ve probably heard it said that we can have both a healthy environment and a healthy economy. Usually, these words are spoken by environmentalists in response to those that claims…
You’ve probably heard it said that we can have both a healthy environment and a healthy economy. Usually, these words are spoken by environmentalists in response to those that claims…