Walk # 9
“After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan Starting Point: Dollard and Newman in Lasalle. Bus let me off here. Headed south on Dollard
2016
Hawaii Utilities Commission Shoots Down Plan To Import LNG from B.C.
Count on Hawaii — tied for No. 1 as the the state with the highest percentage of renewable energy — to deliver yet another blow to B.C.’s lofty liquefied natural…
A TV Show Goes to Washington
According to a report in The New York Times, Donald Trump plans to abdicate his role as president just as soon as he redecorates the Oval Office to pimp it…
To State The Obvious
... the world is getting hotter. And now that Southern Ontario, already plagued by drought, is in the midst of yet another heatwave, it seems like the right time to…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday July 22, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
What has Trump left to say?
The party is over in Cleveland. The Republican Party is no longer the Grand Old Party. It is the party of Donald Trump. We endured his over-long rant on Thursday…
Donald Trump and the Nightmare in America
I think I've mentioned this before. I once had a lot of trouble calling Donald Trump a fascist.I didn't want to diminish the word. Or the suffering of its many…
Leadership and Ideals
Rick Salutin speculates this morning that we may be living in a non-leadership moment. Consider what has happened in the United States:It’s tempting to say Donald Trump is all leader…
In-house and cheap #nlpoli
Provincial government communications consists chiefly of making up vacuous comments for ministers to recite.They are called key messages. In the uncomms-speak of the government bureaucrats, they are KMs, pronounced Kay-Emmzzz.On…
The future of the information commissioner #nlpoli
Donovan Molloy will be the new information and privacy commissioner. He'll do a fine job, to be sure, but there is something about the appointment that seems a waste of…
Brad Wall Government’s Saskatchewan beer trade piffle turns out to be all fizz and no flavour
ILLUSTRATIONS: A group of Albertans enjoying one of our province’s excellent craft beers, unfortunately unavailable in Saskatchewan because of the province-to-the-right’s unfair trade practices. (The Wikipedia illustration is actually of…
Anti-Abortion activists stage an “invalid takeover” of Alberta’s Social Credit Party
It has been a long time since Alberta’s Social Credit Party played a central role in mainstream politics in our province. This may be while little attention was paid to…
from the front lines, day 18 (we have a deal!)
The Strike Is Over - We Have A Deal!The Bargaining Team is very pleased to announce that we have reached a settlement! This is a "tentative settlement," pending ratification by…
from the front lines, day 18 (we have a deal!)
The Strike Is Over - We Have A Deal!The Bargaining Team is very pleased to announce that we have reached a settlement! This is a "tentative settlement," pending ratification by…
Is Slow “Growth” Inevitable?
Most of the world economy (including Canada’s) has performed sluggishly since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. And many economic and fiscal projections now accept this pattern of slow growth…
Roger Ailes the Head of Fox News Is Forced To Resign
For twenty years as the head of Fox News, Roger Ailes helped shaped the current form of the Republican Party.And turn politics in that country into a sewer.But today it…
richardhughes.ca 2016-07-21 17:38:43
To all the concerned citizens who read this page, it’s time to take our fight to the streets. PLEASE JOIN ME IN A PEACEFUL PROTEST (#1) AGAINST STEELEHAD…
July 21: Not a pretty world
I knew I shouldn't have. But last night I watched a little more of the Republican convention. It was a look into the insanity of hell. There was the raving…
Trump lies: a taste of next week’s column, and my discussion with Charles Adler tonight
Your perspective on the Republican National Convention depends on your politics, of course. If you are in any way progressive, it was a five-alarm dumpster fire, a bonfire of insanities,…