The Company(ies) BC Hydro Keeps
Another month, another Site C dam contract. Yet again, it's with one of those almost — but not quite — Canadian companies. On April 6, Canadian Press quoted Premier Christy…
2016
Vancouver Park Board increases city’s biodiversity with salt marsh
Vancouver Park Board News ReleaseApril 19, 2016The Vancouver Park Board is creating a salt marsh in New Brighton Park to restore fish and wildlife habitat along the shore of Burrard…
Vancouver Park Board increases city’s biodiversity with salt marsh
Vancouver Park Board News ReleaseApril 19, 2016The Vancouver Park Board is creating a salt marsh in New Brighton Park to restore fish and wildlife habitat along the shore of Burrard…
The ‘Leap’ is Not a Protest, It is a Plan Democratically Supported At The NDP Convention
Read More I see that Bill Tieleman has lept to action in today’s column in ‘The Tyee.’ He deceptively attempts to reframe the play away from a common sense approach…
Play The New Liberal Game
I believe it is called bloodshed for dollars.Recommend this Post
The Day of Reckoning – #mbelxn 2016 Projection
One of the last two remaining NDP governments in Canada is likely to suffer one of its worst defeats ever. That much should be clear by now, anyway. The Manitoba…
The Day of Reckoning – #mbelxn 2016 Projection
One of the last two remaining NDP governments in Canada is likely to suffer one of its worst defeats ever.That much should be clear by now, anyway. The Manitoba New…
The Day of Reckoning – #mbelxn 2016 Projection
One of the last two remaining NDP governments in Canada is likely to suffer one of its worst defeats ever.That much should be clear by now, anyway. The Manitoba New…
Is it worth suing?
Sometimes things happen in life that give rise to a legal claim but are not worth pursuing. Let's suppose you bought a tin of beans from a store and when…
Why Walking In The Woods Is Good For You
Exercise is good for you and nature is good for you too, so it’s only logical that combining both of them is really good for you. Over at CSGlobe they…
No honours for Elizabeth at 90.
If the Brits really get lucky, Queen Elizabeth might outlive her son Charles. It seems that the British monarchy is holding up better than the country’s membership in the European…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday April 19, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 19, 2016 at 6:12am…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Scott Vrooman rightly makes the point that increased wealth at the top tends to splash outside a country's borders rather than trickling down.…
Justice For Omar Khadr
The Trudeau government recently announced that it would not pursue the appeal of Omar Khadr's release on bail. That's a good first step, Gerry Caplan writes. But there's more that…
Responsibility #nlpoli
In the middle of all the screaming as the government unveiled its budget on Thursday, the editor of a regional business magazine asked, apparently in all seriousness, "Biggest question of…
Motion demanding public support for private and charter schools backfires on Alberta Tory Leader
PHOTOS: Interim Alberta Tory Leader Ric McIver and another PC are ejected from the Legislature yesterday by the Sergeant at Arms. Actual Alberta MLAs may not appear exactly as illustrated.…
In this week’s Hill Times: Attawapiskat, and leaving home
CALGARY – What do you do when times get really bad where you are, and when your loved ones are at risk? Well, you either stay where you are, and…
Equal Pay Day
Every year, women around the world celebrate (angrily) the day their average full-time full-year earnings have caught up to men’s average full-time full-year earnings from the year before. This year…
Who Called Economics the "Dismal Science" and Why?
It's a phrase I won't be using again and, after reading this, I expect you won't either. The "dismal science" phrase was coined by a Scot, Thomas Carlyle, in the…
Maybe a Lot of What We Believe, Just Isn’t So.
Imagine reading a murder mystery that has three heroes, each of them a legendary sleuth, working independently to solve the same series of murders. At the conclusion, each detective comes…