Photo from Wikimedia Commons The social and environmental concerns over pipeline economics and oil transportation projects are growing across the continent. After losing the public relations battle with military tactics,…
Big story on the front page of the irving press. Moncton city councillors voted themselves a pay increase of thousands of dollars. Isn’t it honest and brave of the irving…
November 29, 2016 Vancouver, BC — Vancouver Greens express anger and disappointment at Trudeau decision to approve pipeline expansion, vow to fight decision. Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr expressed her…
November 29, 2016 Vancouver, BC — Vancouver Greens express anger and disappointment at Trudeau decision to approve pipeline expansion, vow to fight decision. Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr expressed her…
A Klaus Nomi tree decoration. I have lived long enough to see it all. Click Klaus to see even more, passed along to me by my hipster daughter. Ho ho…
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau’s decision this week to approve a major expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline has negative implications that go well beyond the borders of the…
BC premier, Christy Clark, wasted no time in coming aboard. One day after Trudeau announced his government’s approval of the Kinder Morgan megapipeline project into the Lower Mainland, Clark has…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Frank writes that a progressive party can only expect to succeed if it places principles of equality and workers’ interests at the…
A precedent-setting case that could affect the ability of First Nations to protect their sacred sites and which has implications for indigenous rights worldwide, is heading to Canada’s top court…
Here’s one history professor’s list of things to do to prevent an even worse situation. It gets patriotic at the end, but I like these bits: “Look out for the…
Here’s one history professor’s list of things to do to prevent an even worse situation. It’s gets patriotic at the end, but I like these bits: “Look out for the…
Living in Texas, I doubt this man will have endeared himself to many. All the more reason to laud his courage and integrity in displaying this sign outside of the…
Some people believe that Donald Trump tweets compulsively just to confuse and distract his enemies.But I don't. I think he just can't help himself… Can't help sounding like a maniac,…
BY PAUL B. ADAM, ASSOCIATE LAWYERIf you were divorced in a foreign country, and now plan to marry in Canada, beware.Not all divorces are created equal.For a foreign divorce to…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 30, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov…
At the tail end of the Marrakech UN conference on the climate 47 countries formed the Climate Vulnerable Forum to share the one goal: getting to 100% renewable energy as…
Putting your family in charge of your businesses is the very definition of conflict of interest, you moron. #uspoli @realDonaldTrump — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 30, 2016
There’s this take on pipelines, as related by the Ventures: And there’s this take which I would have related on CP24 if they hadn’t cancelled to talk about the Ontario…
Babel-on-the-Bay intended to run a very sincere support today of Justin Trudeau’s eulogy for the late Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. It was ready for posting. And then we learned that…
Government, Digital Services & IT Procurement Reform
Next semester I’ll be teaching a course on why healthcare.gov initially turned into a disaster. Why? Because sadly, the failure of healthcare.gov was not special. Conservative estimates suggest over half…