Our Miner’s Canary – the Arctic
Do you remember how balmy temperatures were in the high Arctic last winter? No? Well it’s a safe bet that most have probably forgotten all about it. That too is…
November 2016
Team Trump visits Ottawa: a REAL barbaric practice
A couple blocks from where I used to live in Ottawa. (If I hadn’t blocked him, I might even be interested in Norman Spector’s ongoing claim that Team Trump is…
Meanwhile, Back At Home
While the Gong Show unfolding in the U.S. will likely continue to preoccupy a great many of us in the weeks, months and years to come, we would be remiss…
Five Ways to Fix Environmental Reviews: Young Scientists to Trudeau
Fallout from environmental assessments or development decisions that don’t meet the highest scientific standards will land on the shoulders of the younger generation, which is why Canada’s lack of scientific…
Five Ways to Fix Environmental Reviews: Young Scientists to Trudeau
Fallout from environmental assessments or development decisions that don’t meet the highest scientific standards will land on the shoulders of the younger generation, which is why Canada’s lack of scientific…
Values: Kellie Leitch made me go back to one of my books
Fight the Right, to be precise. here’s what I found. It’s what Leitch is doing, and with some success, too. “…Conservatives like the ones gathered at the Values Summit believe…
Capturing Animals in 3D for the Future
We are witnessing one of the largest extinction events in history because people deny that climate change is happening. Regardless of the deniers and the death of entire species we…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 15, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov…
Kellie Leitch, Donald Trump, and the Racist Rebel
I don't know from what diseased mind or minds those hateful posters came from. I don't know whether those racists were inspired by their Lord Emperor Donald Trump.Or boosted by…
Hayek In Full Fruition
Donald Trump has admitted that he doesn’t read much. Instead, he pays attention to” the shows.” However, there is one book — even though he’s probably never read it —…
Trumpism in Canada, Part 1: Ontario
You might be shocked to hear this, but Donald J. Trump is not popular politically in Canada. In fact, according to any poll he isn’t popular almost anywhere, including within…
General Ignorance: Economic Version #nlpoli
Of all the people in Canada who know something about the Equalization system,. none of them sit in the House of Assembly. Item: Kevin Hutchings, a former cabinet minister, asked…
The glass house of Ontario’s Conservatives.
Somebody in the Ontario Conservative party is going to have to take Ottawa-Vanier PC candidate André Morin aside and read the riot act to him. The guy thinks he is…
ARGH! That’s not what supporting trans people looks like!!
On today’s issue of “you’re doing it wrong,” WWE Superstar “Goldust” announces that their trans stepchild was attacked by young white men–and both his statements and the article covering them…
Trumpism in Canada, Part 1: Ontario
You might be shocked to hear this, but Donald J. Trump is not popular politically in Canada. In fact, according to any poll he isn’t popular almost anywhere, including within…
Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the Rise of The Resistance
It's easy to understand why so many Americans are so depressed, or so angry, at the thought of a Donald Trump government.Having any one of those deplorables in the situation…
Burnt my toast again. Thanks Rachel Notley
It’s something of a trope here in Alberta to blame our Premier for stuff she couldn’t possibly be responsible for. Many of her critics will, in all seriousness, blame her…
The Trump Election #nlpoli
All you will ever need in order to understand the recent American presidential election is contained in this little chart. It appeared within about 24 hours of the polls closing…
The Travesty of the Electoral College
Of the myriad outrages that define last week’s United States presidential election — namely, the elevation of scandal over policy, of demagoguery over competence, of unabashed sexism and racism and…