Do You Know Anyone?
Perhaps she’s a friend or acquaintance. Maybe he’s a relative or a co-worker. They could be in their 20s or their 70s, doesn’t matter. What sets them apart from other…
2016
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Citizens for Public Justice laments the Libs’ and Cons’ joint effort to vote down the NDP’s push for a national anti-poverty strategy.…
Justice of the Peace
Many people think a Justice of the Peace is someone who performs marriages and that performing marriages is the main work of a justice of the peace. This is an…
New column day
Here, on the crisis of liberal democracy around the globe – and how we face our own obvious risks in Canada. For further reading…– Yascha Mounk’s research into the precarious…
He’s Wrong. He Has to Be Wrong. Tell Me He’s Got It Wrong.
The interval since the US election on November 8th has brought us multiple examples of the buffoonery of America’s president-elect. From the angry tweets about SNL to how he may…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2016-12-08 11:03:00
Civil rights activist Viola Desmond will be the first Canadian woman on $10 bill. Not sure why, but when I first heard about this, my initial thought was ” too…
Justice of the Peace
Many people think a Justice of the Peace is someone who performs marriages and that performing marriages is the main work of a justice of the peace. This is an…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday December 8, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Restoring Humility And Proportion
One of my main nightly rituals is to watch one hour of television news. The first half-hour is devoted to both a local and a regional station, while during the…
IT Problem At Saskatchewan Government
What’s going on? Trying to communicate with #skpoli gov't?Don't bother. E-mail server, website all still down. — Murray Mandryk (@MMandryk) December 7, 2016 server down all day. No gov't news…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2016-12-08 10:03:00
Civil rights activist Viola Desmond will be the first Canadian woman on $10 bill. Not sure why, but when I first heard about the, my initial thought was ” too…
Viola Desmond
This is so, so awesome. Well done, Bill Morneau. Just awesome. (And no, Nellie McClung shouldn’t have been considered, much less on the list. She was a racist and a…
Donald Trump and the Man Who Would Torch the Planet
Everybody knew that Donald Trump was a climate change denier, a man who believes that global warming is a hoax.He's made that abundantly clear… Over and over again.But still the…
Economy Continues to Grow Despite Decrease in Emissions
Economists used to measure progress using emission rates correlated to GDP, now that comparison is ridiculous. A few years ago we looked at how carbon output is shrinking while economies…
December 8, 1980
My girlfriend Paula Christison had been over, and we’d been studying, then watching something on the little black and white TV we had. My Carleton roommate, Lee G. Hill, was…
Being a contrarian, here is my defence of Monsef
From next week’s column: A year later, the electoral reform promise is in shambles. And, when you think about it, the “democratic reform” file has been a fiasco from the…
Transferring Personalities
Andrew Coyne writes that the Conservative Party has reached a fork in the road. It can, he writes, either be a party of big ideas or small fears: Will it…
The grandstanding of Patrick Brown.
People who prefer to grandstand in politics can be a pain in the ass. There are times when a politician should to take a stand on an issue but that…
The Day Donald Trump Fired One Of His Trolls
Donald Trump had an army of trolls working for him during the election, spreading fake stories, and flaming his opponents. So it was quite a shock to see him fire…
Poll numbers not very comforting #nlpoli
A little over a month ago, only about 16 or 17 percent of respondents told pollsters they thought Dwight Ball was the best choice for Premier. In November, 27% of…