PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Below: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, the Mr. Congeniality of Confederation if you believe his press clippings; Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. Notwithstanding a flagging economy and…
Not only are advertisements that feature sex and violence bad for business, but more importantly they are causing damage by normalising violence against women. The post Why is the advertising…
Good on Butts and Telford. Better to not take money in the first place, of course. But this is a big mea culpa.
The federal Liberals are under fire on a number of environment fronts, most notably over the Site C dam and the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. And rightfully so. But…
Wednesday’s standing committee heard that the so-called “community-based strategic plan” has risen from the dead – a document that was committee-driven (not community; and a committee of carefully selected buddies,…
Giant banner in Geneva Switzerland by campaigners for a universal basic income, May 14, 2016. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/ AFP; posted on cyprusnews.eu. With the two largest Canadian provinces vowing…
Catholic bishops from Alberta and the Northwest Territories have weighed in on the issue of assisted dying with a 32-page missive about who will and won't be going to Heaven.…
Because the battle against climate change is predominantly a political question, reality often gets marginalized if not ignored entirely. When you hear our political leadership discuss climate change it's always…
The Alberta Liberals announced this week that they will choose their next leader on June 4, 2017. Current leader David Swann stepped in to the role on an interim basis…
I have. And here’s a bit from next week’s column, in which I, contrarian-wise, do so: …like it or not, paying for the moves was within the rules. And the…
RenaHeer, Reporter / Anchor, CTV Vancouver Published Thursday, September 22, 2016 6:25PM PDT Vancouver's new bike share program is expanding into the city's largest park, with plans for seven stations…
Today is not a blog day. But there are two items I could not ignore.The first is a huge story that was not important enough to make the irving press…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Branko Milanovic examines whether the U.S.' tax system is actually progressive all the way to the top of the income spectrum - and…
Here, examining how Chris Hamby's brilliant reports on the effect of investor-state dispute settlement terms in past trade agreements should inform our choices in discussing new ones. For further reading...-…
A recent post I wrote contrasted the apparent indifference/ignorance of Canadians toward CETA with the furious involvement of the Europeans, most recently the Germans, in open protest against the deal.…
Binge watching TV shows is common for a lot of couples, and that’s good. There are debates around the merit of binge watching and whether or not consuming media that…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 22, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep…
The submission by Fair Vote Canada to the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform recently claimed that 9 million voters in the 2015 federal election were unable to make their…
The Liberals' Achilles heal -- a sense of entitlement -- is once again becoming the subject of public discussion. Stephen Maher writes:The latest nugget the Tory researchers have dug up…
As we all know Bernie Sanders was treated unfairly by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment. And he has every right to be bitter.But with the shadow of the…
