New column day
Here, on the contrast between a Saskatchewan Party platform (and government) dedicated to handing money to the people who need it least, and an NDP which plans to help where…
2016
Want To Reduce Suicide in Native Communities? Step 1: Stop Destroying Native Land
For the past couple weeks, Canadians have been wringing their hands about the suicide epidemic in the Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Cross Lake, Manitoba. In the community of 6,000, six…
Want To Reduce Suicide in Native Communities? Step 1: Stop Destroying Native Land
For the past couple weeks, Canadians have been wringing their hands about the suicide epidemic in the Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Cross Lake, Manitoba. In the community of 6,000, six…
Fingering Climate Change in Real Time
There's been a breakthrough in the ability of climate scientists to pin individual severe weather events on anthropogenic global warming. Think of it as the elimination of a lot of…
Safe Injection Sites: Lots of Possibilities
What are your thoughts on safe injection sites? Many cities are about to follow Vancouver’s lead by introducing these sites as options for drug addicts. Here is my simple thought…
Laura Miller is back. Good.
Laura Miller is back. Back in her job, that is, as executive director of the BC Liberals. It was just announced in Victoria, I believe. And – she’s a great…
The End of Neoliberalism?
Fortune magazine ponders whether neoliberalism in its home country - the United States - can survive the November elections.Neoliberalism ...is an economic principle. It refers to the belief that markets…
March 17: "I wish I loved the Human race;…
I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one, I…
No rule of disqualifying a surety merely on the basis of being a potential witness
There is no rule of disqualifying a surety merely on the basis of being a potential witness, indeed, such disqualification is an error in principle.The practice has been created by…
Debunking the Collus Myths
I was recently told a member of town council is publicly making two incorrect statements that seriously need to be debunked: Collus is 100% owned by the town (not 50%),…
Promissory estoppel cannot be used to estop a public official from applying a clear statutory provision, or from fulfilling a statutory mandate.
Nunavut v Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd., 2016 NUCA 02: The hearing judge did not have the benefit of Robitaille, and did not apply the ratio of Mount Sinai, both cases establishing…
Slainte, or whatever the Hell it is you’re supposed to say
I'm Irish, but Guinness tastes like poop. There, I said it. Excommunicate me or whatever. I don't care anymore. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 17, 2016
In A World Where Truth Mattered
....this might be significant. Unfortunately, the more Donald Trump lies, the more popular he seems to become with his acolytes, who laud him for his 'authenticity'. Too bad so many…
March 18th Brantford Community Forum with MP Omar Alghabra
If you’re in or close to Brantford Ontario and want something to do tomorrow (Friday) evening, there’s an event going on there March 18th from 6:30 – 8:00 pm at…
Dear Justin, Your Choice – Fish or Cut Bait
He's always known his day of reckoning couldn't be far off. He knew when that day came he would powerfully piss off someone.That day is just about here and now…
Homing in on the Houseless…’Affordable’ Means Never Having to Say Subsidized…
Vancouver real estate town hall has people share their stories The town hall on Wednesday evening was organized by B.C. NDP MLA David Eby By Maryse Zeidler, CBC News…
The Tyranny Of Conformity
Yesterday, KirbyCairo wrote another of his thought-provoking posts, this one on the current plight of the federal NDP and its search for renewal. That prospect is dim, Kirby says, unless…
Blue tuxedo cat
Blue tuxedo cat. A wide variety of filters and apps. Paper, Etchings, Waterlogue, Procreate, Snapped. Some of the Waterlogged filters create quite nice accidents and bleeds.Filed under: art