Are The Changes Only Cosmetic?
Despite unpromising predictions, Justin Trudeau led his party to overwhelming victory close to a year ago. And like political prisoners held captive by a foul and reactionary regime, Canadians began…
August 2016
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 1, 2016
Here are the leading headlines from Wise Law on Twitter‘Art of the Deal’ author gets letter from Trump lawyer after giving negative interviewsLegal Aid lawyers push to unionize - Law…
Time To Take On Bill C-51
David Christopher, over at rabble.ca, writes:After all, Bill C-51 represents one of the most dangerous assaults on Canadians' basic rights that this country has ever seen. It turns the Canadian…
Fowler for the 21st Century
On the desk of every writer, every reporter, every editor, every PR director and every communications officer is a small library of reference books. A good dictionary (Oxford, American Heritage,…
Gratuitous advice on snapshots in time.
You know that you get what you pay for but this advice is free anyway. You should try not to get your knickers in a knot every time a poll…
Former Nuclear Disaster Site Could Become Solar Plant
One of the worst energy disaster in human history was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It has left a giant chunk of land around Pripyat uninhabitable to humans (although the…
Poking through the entrails with less than 100 days to go
Real Clear Politics: What’s it mean? It means Hillary got a much bigger convention bounce than the short-fingered vulgarian did. It means the DNC convention – with better visuals, more…
National Post Letter
You will find a letter of mine in today’s National Post enumerating the many benefits of proportional representation. In order to read it, please click here and scroll down to…
Gandhi, Mandela, and a guy in a chicken suit #nlpoli
If the provincial New Democrats had sent a garden gnome around the province, odds are that the photos he'd have brought back would be more interesting than the stuff Earle…
This week’s column: be silent, Twitter warriors
Ah, the Twitter warriors. Sirius XM’s Charles Adler first drew it to my attention, on his popular satellite radio program. An octogenarian Roman Catholic priest was slaughtered by ISIS subhumans…
Ottawa’s ethics commissioner should review MP Jason Kenney’s activities and ethics as Alberta PC candidate
PHOTOS: Freshly made up, MP Jason Kenney arrives at his news conference yesterday on the grounds of Alberta’s Legislature, where he one day hopes to have a legal parking spot.…
Ack!
Ms Soapbox is under the weather…spent 5 minutes composing this sentence. Will be back in a day or so.
Caregiver Stress Eating Never Satisfies
I remember when Nicholas was young and in the hospital most of the time. Many times, his life hung in the balance. Jim tagged teamed shifts in the hospital when…
Caregiver Stress Eating Never Satisfies
I remember when Nicholas was young and in the hospital most of the time. Many times, his life hung in the balance. Jim tagged teamed shifts in the hospital when…
August 1: The greed that makes our world go round – and burst
I am desperate. I have two documents to e mail. But they are on paper, not in my computer. And my printer does not have a scanner, so I can't…
August 1: The greed that makes our world go round – and burst
I am desperate. I have two documents to e mail. But they are on paper, not in my computer. And my printer does not have a scanner, so I can't…
CF(L)Co v. Hydro-Quebec (Court of Appeal) #nlpoli
The full text of the Quebec Court of Appeal decision in Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation v. Hydro-Quebec: pdf-srbp-
Trudeau Government Approves Site C Dam Permits
Dear Mr. Trudeau, Ms. Wilson-Raybould, and Ms. McKenna, I could scarcely believe my ears and my eyes at the news that your government has OKed the Site C dam permits.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Walkom writes that with both major U.S. presidential candidates taking an understandably skeptical view of free-trade agreements in their current form, Canada shouldn't…
The Power And The Glory
The power is nature's, and the glory is the human capacity for noble, courageous action, as you will see. Two bad that in the collective human psyche, we can't have…