100’s detained in 1st month of new screening measures
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/border-security-hundreds-detained-in-1st-month-of-new-screening-measures-1.3545451
2016
100’s detained in 1st month of new screening measures
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/border-security-hundreds-detained-in-1st-month-of-new-screening-measures-1.3545451
The artist formerly known as Prince
What a shock. We were all punks, but we so respected him for his creativity and musical genius. What a terrible loss. #Prince https://t.co/Ku4Au18tB7 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 21,…
CBC Censoring More Of My Comments
The following is blog navel gazing that you probably won’t be interested in, but I’m keeping a record of it for my amusement. A change (probably in personnel) about 2…
Prairie blues
On Monday, a political colour map of the Prairie provinces would have shown a blue stripe hemmed in by orange on both sides. Today, the palette shows a decidedly blue…
Prairie blues
On Monday, a political colour map of the Prairie provinces would have shown a blue stripe hemmed in by orange on both sides. Today, the palette shows a decidedly blue…
Prairie blues
On Monday, a political colour map of the Prairie provinces would have shown a blue stripe hemmed in by orange on both sides. Today, the palette shows a decidedly blue…
Province Steps Into Kinder Morgan Pipeline Proposal
The impact of this decision tosses the ‘Equivalency Agreement’ with the highly suspect and biased National Energy Board back into the province’s lap. Earlier this month, B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office…
My take on Duffy, from a year ago this week
Quote: While myriad controversies—always nouns, always with “gate” appended as a suffix—always transfix the commentariat, they always leave Mr. and Mrs. Frontporch cold. The Duffy “scandal” is no exception. That…
Is Christy Clark Selling Out British Columbia?
We thought the Northern Gateway pipeline initiative was dead. We thought that northern British Columbia was safe. Maybe not.Has Christy Clark cut a quid pro quo deal with Alberta that…
DDD – Duffy’s Date with Destiny, But Who’s That Sitting Beside Him in the Prisoner’s Dock?
Mike Duffy isn't the only Conservative on trial today. With him in the prisoner's dock are Stephen Harper, Nigel Wright and the cast and crew of Harper's PMO.From the conflicting…
#Duffy Not Faulted For Listening To Harper
3 years ago, I explained what was happening with the Duffy trial. Today it came to a close. It's about the credibility of Duffy vs. the credibility of the Harper…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Owen Jones argues that public policy and social activism are needed to rein in the excesses of a corporate class which sees it…
New column day
Here, on how political fund-raising scandals in Ontario and British Columbia only highlight the complete lack of rules governing donations in Saskatchewan.For further reading...- SCOTUS' Citizens United decision is here…
Obama: On Bended Knee To The Saudis
I'll defer to others much better versed than I am in the vagaries of international politics to offer a more informed analysis, but the recent deference of the U.S. toward…
Boxed in
Snippet from next week’s Hill Times column. I’m getting…concerned. …here was the highest office in the land, issuing an official-looking media statement beneath the Great Seal of Canada, no less,…
How We Can Fend Off Drought
In this TED talk David Sedlak explores options that can be used to fend off drought in cities. The last century saw massive developments that treated water in a very…
LawFact of the Day: Civil Litigation
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday April 21, 2016. Today we are talking about Civil Litigation.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 21, 2016 at 6:12am…
Kathleen Wynne’s plan: An Incompetent Cabinet.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne seems to have figured it out. The more incompetent her cabinet, the better she looks. Take Madeleine Meilleur, Ontario’s new attorney general. She was a disaster…
New Pipelines Don’t Make Sense
"Tidewater." For the oil industry, that's Nirvana. Get Canadian oil to tidewater, the barons say, and our economic future will be rosy. But that argument no longer holds water --…