Everything is political. Everything is a Charter issue.
Good. I’m glad they backed away from making the assisted-suicide vote a whipped vote. That would have been appalling, frankly. It wasn’t in the platform, it wasn’t promised by Trudeau,…
2016
140Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of February 22, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Ottawa drops appeal of Omar Khadr’s bail 19 year old Brit created free lawyer-bot that is successfully appealing parking ticketsToronto…
Recap: I made a WordPress Website last year
Note: I wrote this post in early January when I was reviewing what I had completed in 2016. It’s important reflect back sometimes and I realized that I had not…
Ever wonder how all those embarrassing political stories become public?
Outfits like the Liberal Research Bureau, that’s how. Today’s Hill Times has a great story about the LRB – who played a key role in winning the last majority government,…
Donald Trump and the Lord of the Pigs
As you know, when Donald Trump began his campaign for President of the United States I thought he was just a bad joke.And it was just another insane bigot eruption…
off to vancouver
I struggle to find time to write even a small fraction of what I'd like to post here. But there's one thing I'll always write about: my travels. And there…
Cabinet documents and no brainers #nlpoli
Years ago, a couple of enterprising reporters at CBC submitted what was then a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information about entertainment expense allowances for senior bureaucrats…
Suzuki, Phillip lead support for Peace Valley land defenders as Hydro seeks injuction
David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip will be at the BC Supreme Court in downtown Vancouver Monday morning to speak to media and support the Treaty 8 Stewards of…
You’re more likely to die as a baby in Nunavut than as a 70-year-old in the rest of the country
http://globalnews.ca/news/2523231/whats-killing-babies-in-canadas-north/?sf21156078=1 The infant mortality rate was 21.40/1,000 live births in 2012. Compare that to Greenland in 2014: Infant mortality rate: 9.42 deaths/1,000 live births male: 10.76 ...
Journalism Redefined
It’s been a disturbing week. Ezra Levant, who swore under oath that he was not a reporter, sued the NDP government for refusing to let him attend (and report, presumably)…
Is our policy on ISIS predestined?
No one wants to say unpleasant things about their friends. But what do you do if your friends are engaged in serial misbehaviour and you are getting dragged into it?…
Building More Roads is No Solution to Congestion
At 35%, Ontario’s transportation sector produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector, equalling the combined output of emissions from all electrical generation and industrial activities in the province…
The inequality puzzle
Excerpts from an article by Dambisa Moyo at Project Syndicate. An economist and author who sits on the board of directors of global corporations, she was named by TIME Magazine…
Second Case of Anti-Muslim/Government Vandalism at Calgary School In a Week
Before we get to the meat of things, we thought we would begin with a screenshot taken from the Canadians 4 Canadians since it will explain, in some part, the…
Building More Roads is No Solution to Congestion
At 35%, Ontario’s transportation sector produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector, equalling the combined output of emissions from all electrical generation and industrial activities in the province…
I am a journal-ist
As some of you may know, I have been writing 1,000 words a day since I was eleven years old. I’ve never missed a day. Plath and Nin started at…
NDP Riding Associations Back Leap Manifesto Ahead Of Party Convention
As a previous longtime NDP member, activist and candidate I like many others drifted away finding that the party’s continued conservatism combined with a mostly ‘Brown’ approach to environmental issues…
Feb.21: You may be next….
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/margaret-evans-lesbos-refugees-nobel-peace-prize-1.3456150We glamorize war, even as we mourn the dead, we glamorize it as a kind of show biz. Perhaps the most obvious reminder of that was the most show biz…