Lisa Raitt’s day
Despite the very real challenges she faces, or perhaps because of them – here and here – my friend Lisa Raitt appears ready to become a Conservative leadership candidate. She…
October 2016
Another One Of History’s Ironies
There are those who believe that engaging in “what might have been” speculation is wasted energy. But Linda McQuaig does precisely that in today’s Toronto Star. Doug Peters — the…
Review of Two Graphic Histories
How do you do history in ways that allow it to move, travel, and engage people in non-university contexts?
Review of Two Graphic Histories
How do you do history in ways that allow it to move, travel, and engage people in non-university contexts?
The Incredible Hypocrisy of the Con Queen Rona Ambrose
As we all know, Rona Ambrose likes to spend most of her time accusing Justin Trudeau of being a big spender.She has attacked him for employing two nannies to take…
How Canadians Are Helping To Defeat Donald Trump
Judging by this sign, and what I've seen and heard in Montreal and Toronto, if Donald Trump ran for office in Canada, he'd get even less votes than the Cons,…
Pardonez-moi M. Lisée.
Paul Wells of the Toronto Star offers it as evidence that sometimes a journalist can make something of himself. Besides an ass, we assume. Wells was writing about Jean-François Lisée…
Sorrow
Sometimes, even war room guys like me get a bit weary of being the metaphoric battlefield. Donald Trump’s daily outrages have lately had that effect on me – they just…
Refitting the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
Ordered in 1967, laid down in 1968, launched in 1972 and commissioned in 1975, USS Nimitz is the lead ship of a class of 10 aircraft carriers in the United…
Remember that time 2,000 people showed up to see Justin Trudeau in Medicine Hat? Yeah? That was tonight.
More than two thousand Albertans showed up to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tonight at a rally in the southern Alberta city of Medicine Hat. Mr. Trudeau was in town…
Bernie Sanders Just Asked President Obama to Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline
Here’s the powerful letter signed by Sanders and four other senators. ALEXANDER SAMMON- Mother Jones The Dakota Access pipeline currently hangs in a state of uncertainty. On October 9, a…
Diesel Spill Near Bella Bella Exposes B.C.’s Deficient Oil Spill Response Regime
The grounding of a fuel barge near Bella Bella is raising fresh concerns about B.C.’s ability to respond to marine oil spills as a tug releases diesel fuel into the…
Anxious Entitlement
Kurt Vonnegut once quipped that “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country”, a sentiment I have long held…
How to Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors
Yes! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder outlines the four reasons communities led by indigenous people all over the United States are winning against the war against the powerful and deep-pocketed…
Ian Gill: Fearless Journalism Essential to Democracy
Canada’s media industries are in a tailspin. As many as 10,000 journalists have lost their jobs in the past decade and newsroom closures or contractions are an almost weekly fact…
Heiltsuk call for tanker ban to include fuel barges amid ongoing leak in Great Bear Sea
Sunken tug towing Nathan E. Stewart (Image submitted) A 10,000 tonne US-owned fuel barge, the Nathan E. Stewart, ran aground in Seaforth Channel on BC’s central coast early this morning…
Limitations Defences Must Be Pleaded
Singh v. Trump, 2016 ONCA 747: This court has consistently held that “he expiry of a limitation period is a defence to an action that must be pleaded in a…
Watch this
"In the good ol' days…" #13TH pic.twitter.com/2IzF87ODP6 — 13TH (@13THFilm) October 12, 2016
I am a Zionist
…and, 20 years later, a Jewish friend in BC remembered. Was nice to get this.