Hillary and the sale of foreign policy
Hillary Clinton remains the odds-on favourite to become the 45th president of the United States. While she has solid credentials as a supporter of working class Americans, she has also…
2016
In this week’s Hill Times: selfies, state dinners and West Wing
A meal, some speeches, and some selfies. That’s what State Dinners are, mostly. They’re supper, basically, except you have to wear your best clothes and be on your best behaviour.…
Supreme Court To Hear First Nation’s Case Against Enbridge’s Line 9 Pipeline
The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed that it will hear the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation's challenge to Enbridge's Line 9 tar sands pipeline. The post Supreme Court…
The Trump era comes to my comments section
Things are getting plenty ugly in there, particularly whenever Trump is discussed. Vicious personal attacks, mysterious anonymous accounts, just general nastiness – on all sides. Enough is enough. This is…
The Crow and the Pond
One day, the crafty old crow was sitting in his nest while his pack of pet doves brought him breakfast and plucked out their own chest feathers to make sure…
Democracy in Retreat, Neo-Fascism on the March
The editorial in today's Washington Post laments the decline of democracy in many corners of the world.AFTER THE Cold War it seemed that democracy was spreading, dictatorships were tumbling and…
March 14: What can I say?
The headline in today's Irving press is a gripping of story of how somebody, maybe, is thinking about buying a piece of land in Dieppe (a suburb of Moncton) to…
Poking fun at the town that fun forgot
Been 20 years since I lived in #Ottawa. All I miss: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 14, 2016
Russia Pulling Forces Out of Syria
It sounds as though we'll have to rejig the "bad Russian" narrative. Vlad Putin has directed his war czar (defence minister) to withdraw Russian forces from Syria. According to Putin,…
Chris Hedges. The Glaring Global Contagion of Neoliberalism.
According to Chris Hedges, the scourge of neoliberalism is transforming even the United States into a political/economic apparatus increasingly akin to Mexico. The symptoms, each in varying degrees, can be…
Fiscal policy for the left, or Corbyn vs Mulcair on deficits
The question of deficits dominated a lot of the economic debate in Canada during the 2015 federal election and even today. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party introduced a new fiscal policy…
New grants for emerging artists spark creative projects
City of Vancouver News ReleaseMarch 14, 2016 New grants for emerging artists spark creative projects The City of Vancouver is pleased to offer a new grant program for emerging artists,…
New grants for emerging artists spark creative projects
City of Vancouver News ReleaseMarch 14, 2016 New grants for emerging artists spark creative projects The City of Vancouver is pleased to offer a new grant program for emerging artists,…
Bill Routley challenges the science BC Libs rely on to support contaminating Shawnigan Lake
Cowichan NDP MLA blows holes in the BC Governments contention that Science backs their stubborn refusal to act to protect Shawnigan. (Video)
Three sovereignties and an election
Photo by US Embassy Canada The concept of nation-state sovereignty has a lot to do with what the public perceives to be the legitimate use of violent force (e.g., Canadian…
Trudeau’s Day of Reckoning.
"We will make environmental assessments credible again. While governments grant permits for resource development, only communities can grant permission.''At least that was the promise Justin Trudeau made when he was…
See that simply wild CTV/W5 report on the weekend?
Wonderful to see some good, old-fashioned investigative work again – the subject-matter being massive, bald-faced auto insurance fraud. Links here and here. Crazy stuff. Congrats, CTV (and Aviva, the company…
Did Someone Declare a "Climate Emergency"?
It seems we're being overtaken by events and far sooner than even the supposed pessimists had imagined.February, 2016 came in 1.35C above the average baseline temperature for that month. The…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jared Bernstein is hopeful that the era of expansive corporate rights agreements is coming to an end. Paul Krugman notes that there's no evidence…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily Law Fact from Wise Law for Monday March 14, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Mar 14, 2016 at…