What’s Really Going On With Climate Change
There are too many people espousing their uneducated, or simply malicious views about the problem of climate change. There are enough of them in some places as to have totally…
2016
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mainly Macro offers a useful definition of neoliberalism, while highlighting its relationship to austerity. And Ed Finn writes that we shouldn’t be too…
Extremely Important Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Joint Sentencing Submissions
It appears the Court has adopted the Alberta, rather than the Ontario, practice. This will change the approach in Ontario Courts immediately. R. v. Anthony-Cook, 2016 SCC 43: Joint submissions…
LawFact of the Day: Business Law
Here is your daily #LawFact from Wise Law for Friday October 21, 2016. Today we are talking about Business Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct…
Open Practices
This post is a response to a request for my thoughts on the value of open practices and methodologies for putting them into practice. 1. Do you have any insight…
Open Practices
This post is a response to a request for my thoughts on the value of open practices and methodologies for putting them into practice. 1. Do you have any insight…
Lessons Learned?
It’s been a year since the Harper government was sent packing. But, Gerry Caplan writes, if those vying to replace Stephen Harper are any indication, their defeat taught the Conservatives…
Covering the #LPCO AGM in Niagara Falls this weekend
Thanks to the kind folks in the Liberal Party, I’ve been officially accredited as a “media” person to cover the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario) – LPCO – annual convention…
Justin Trudeau and the Electoral Reform Farce
Yesterday I celebrated the one-year anniversary of the day Justin Trudeau brought down the Con regime, after a decade of darkness.Only to be reminded how fragile was that victory.And how…
Donald Trump in the Twitterverse.
If you follow business news, you know this is the year of Twitter. It might be its last. Thanks to Donald Trump and his millions of Twitter followers, this has…
Donald Trump and the Lost Democratic Traditions of America
As we all know, Hillary Clinton had Donald Trump for dinner at their final debate Wednesday night.But not before he had called her a "nasty woman" and threatened not to…
False choices #nlpoli
It’s not often you can see a “half-way” compromise as plainly as the one the provincial government announced on Wednesday about Muskrat Falls. Government’s starting point was to flood the…
Goodbye, Politics, Re-Spun! Hello, WePivot.net!
“Politics, Re-Spun” is now WePivot.net! but why, you scream in horror! next month is the 14th anniversary of Politics, Re-Spun…it’s time for a reframing/rebranding/pivot to something more…betterer, or more bigly,…
Schiaparelli lander missing; ground control still in contact with Postmedia; prognosis grim for both
PHOTOS: An artist’s impression of the Schiaparelli Mars Lander descending gently toward the Martian surface. Schiaparelli’s actual Mars landings may not have unfolded exactly as illustrated by the European Space…
PCs don’t need the Wildrose to win, NDP should watch their Liberal flank
Uneventful weeks have become rare in Alberta politics and this week in particular has been uniquely interesting. We started with the release of political party fundraising data from Elections Alberta…
The Brilliance that was Bacharach and Warwick
His music, her voice – magic. Warwick with Stevie Wonder, the late Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross.
Somehow, I Don’t Think America is Done With Her Yet
It’s difficult for me to imagine that America is ready to let go of Michelle Obama no matter how much she wants just that. I think Americans, like most of…
Why is Trudeau Back-Tracking On B.C.’s Oil Tanker Ban? These 86 Meetings with Enbridge Might Help Explain
Since the Liberals formed government last November, Enbridge and Northern Gateway Pipeline have lobbied Ottawa an astounding 86 times, federal lobbying reports reveal. Fifty-one of those meetings have taken place…
Free speech, and the cruel shackles of empathy and mutual respect
In Canada, we tend to value freedom of speech very highly, and it’s often said that the best way to counter objectionable speech is with more speech. That’s the first…