Civil Contempt
Greenberg v. Nowack, 2016 ONCA 949: The test for civil contempt was articulated by the Supreme Court in Carey v. Laiken, 2015 SCC 17, 2 S.C.R. 79, at paras. 33-35:…
2016
Christy Clark Gifts BC With Its Own Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
In a desperate attempt to get re-elected at any cost, the BC premier has sent a lump of coal Christmas gift to British Columbians. First she applies a 15% property…
More Weapons In The War Against Fake News
If you get the bulk of your news from television and print journalism, you may be unaware of the extent to which fake news has taken hold in the virtual…
Substandard
There’s plenty of ugly news coming out about the continued problems with Brad Wall’s pet carbon capture and storage project – including thoroughly unimpressive output numbers, and payouts to Cenovus…
Light In The Tunnel
No one should be writing obituaries for the NDP. Michael Harris writes that, even though Justin Trudeau’s personal popularity remains high, his party’s brand is slipping: Small wonder, with so…
Love for Justin Trudeau
…Angus Reid says our love for the Liberal Prime Minister has diminished, here: And I guess my response would be: we may love him a bit less, Angus, but we…
PHOTOS: Eleven Cities Showing What Bold Climate Action Looks Like
Eleven cities from around the world were celebrated recently in Mexico City at the C40 Cities Awards for their commitment to innovation in the fight against climate change. The eleven-year-old…
Donald Trump and the Restaurant Review From Hell
As we all know Donald Trump is always raging about the way the media treats him, the lying media as he likes to call them.And encouraging his 17-million Twitter followers…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Hemingway reviews the evidence on two-tiered medicine from around the developed world, and concludes that a constitutional attack on universal health care…
You only know what Donald Trump is not.
You can never accuse President-Elect Donald Trump of being a politician. He is the antithesis of that. He despises politicians. You saw how he treats both Democrats and Republicans. He…
Is Obama Going to Hand Trump a Poison Pill?
It seems a majority of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton, having won the popular vote by some three million ballots, should be the president of the United States, not Donald…
Charleston Killer Convicted on All Charges
While the victims and their families may have received justice, there are people who continue to celebrate the actions of the murderer just as they did when it occurred. That…
Charleston Killer Convicted on All Charges
While the victims and their families may have received justice, there are people who continue to celebrate the actions of the murderer just as they did when it occurred. That…
Rogue One, a Right Wing Wars Story: wherein the Wildrose Party’s Derek Fildebrandt slips his leader’s leash
PHOTOS: Wildrose Party Finance Critic Derek Fildebrandt going rogue at Rebel Media’s Calgary anti-everything rally last Sunday (CBC photo). Below: Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney as imagined for this…
Ten Alberta MLAs to watch in 2017
Despite its past reputation, Alberta politics has become extraordinarily unpredictable over the past decade. This makes forecasting the future a very tricky business for political pundits. As is tradition on…
2017 PEF Student Essay Contest is Open!
The 2017 PEF Student Essay Contest is officially open! The deadline for submitting essays is May 02, 2017. Please use this submission form (fiche d’inscription concours). You can download a…
Canadian Scientists Say They’re Unsure What Trudeau Means When He Says ‘Science’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned aggressively on the issue of science in the lead up to the last federal election. And it makes sense that he did: for the first…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jonathan Sas highlights why we’re best off having public services delivered by the public sector: The three decades long bashing and diminishing…
Fidel Castro Ruz memorial: Santiago de Cuba
Cuban high school students wave flags at a memorial assembly for Fidel Castro in Santiago, December 3, 2016 • Photo by David Hugill Scenes from the Fidel Castro funeral procession…
Canada in a Trump world
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