Not so valuable: Kellie Leitch
A snippet from next week’s column: Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been talking a lot about “values.” She sent out a questionnaire to Conservative partisans about it. Here’s what…
2016
Justin, Wake Up. Are You Listening?
Beijing has signed on to the Paris climate agreement. So too has Washington. Canada? No. According to our gilded leader, we're not ready yet. The Dauphin, our Baron of Bitumen,…
Owner of Acid-leaking Tulsequah Chief Mine Goes into Receivership
Cleanup of the troubled Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C., which has leaked acidic water into nearby streams and rivers for more than six decades, is again in limbo following…
All Governments Lie-An Investigation Of The Corporate Media
The State of the Corporate Media today-A Critique Anna Maria Tremonti interviews Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and Fred Peabody an independent Canadian journalist and film-maker whose documentary-‘All Governments Lie’ will…
I’m Guessing This is Not a Good Thing
Strange things are happening in Russia's far north. There's been a small asteroid hit. Massive craters have erupted in the permafrost. An anthrax breakout from a long dead caribou carcass…
Putin Is Backing Trump. He Has His Reasons, Plenty of Them.
In the West, Vlad Putin is routinely portrayed as a malevolent force, a demon of sorts. Yet he is running a very large and somewhat powerful country and seems to…
Standing Rock protest grows with thousands opposing North Dakota pipeline
The CBC’s Tim Fontaine has been covering the protest at Standing Rock, North Dakota. This ever growing, and largely native driven protest, attended by hundreds of tribes, could lead to…
Canadian Values
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has proposed that immigrants be subject to a test for their adherence to what she calls Canadian values. “It’s not intolerant to believe in a…
Canadian Values
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has proposed that immigrants be subject to a test for their adherence to what she calls Canadian values. "It's not intolerant to believe in a…
Will We Let This Man Put An End To Canadian Health Care?
Dr. Brian Day is the face of privatization of Canada's health care system. Do you want him to win?
If you remember anything from last night’s presidential forum, remember this
Donald Trump is rape apologist. Wonder why.
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 8, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep 8,…
An Ad Campaign That Sells More Than a Product
It can be hard navigating the world as a person with a disability, be it mental or physical, and it can be even harder to make friends. Unfortunately there is…
New column day
Here, on the connection between unionization and secure employment income - and the importance of encouraging the former if people otherwise face no real hope of achieving the latter.For further…
PM Trudeau-Spills happen.They always do. Even the best technology isn’t up to the job.
Dear Mr. Trudeau, I attended the Kinder Morgan open house in Victoria recently, well I tried to. The attendance was so great that as many of us as fit into…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Naomi Klein writes about the racism and dehumanization behind climate change denialism and inaction. And George Monbiot reminds us of the dangers of…
Neoliberalism In Four Easy Panels
This probably says all we need to know about neoliberalism.Should you have the stomach for it, you can read more here.Recommend this Post
Good Advice
Justin Trudeau came home from China with a couple of small accomplishments. First, he made it a little easier for Canadian farmers to sell their canola there. And, second, he…