Nov. 23 A worse, worse day.
I’ll try to keep this first bit short; but it might help us to understand what the world is going through. We think of World War One and World Two…
2016
Sentence Appeals
It’s the end of a criminal trial and you have been convicted. The judge gave a sentence and you don’t think it’s fair. Can you appeal and get a different…
You’re Not a White Supremacist, Right?
Sure, you’re not a racist, but you are likely living in a culture steeped in white supremacy. And male supremacy. A culture with rich, systemic norms and institutions that benefit…
Trump Will Blind NASA’s Eye on Earth
Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space…
Donald Trump’s Desperate Need To Be Loved
Donald Trump spent every day of his long campaign for the presidency demonizing Hillary Clinton and calling her a criminal.He vowed that one of his first acts if he was…
Van Jones Warning to Canada. Listen Up.
“It can find a home in your country, too, if you don’t stand up to it.” Van Jones understands the bigotry Trump has tapped across America does not respect borders.…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 23, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov…
UPDATED: Words Are Important
Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle…
France Phasing out Coal by 2023
Not to be outdone by other nations, France has announced that the country will eliminate use of coal for electricity by 2023. Yesterday we looked at Canada’s plan to phase…
Does Wynne cry for liberalism?
Did you hear that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne got all teary at the Liberal Party gathering this past weekend? Not being there, are we to assume these were crocodile tears…
Population density and just dense #nlpoli
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is in financial trouble. It will spend this year about $3.0 billion more than it will take in. In fact, this year, as last…
Which Number?
We live in a digital age — a time when numbers are everywhere. One number — we’ve labelled it GDP — has taken on a mystical quality. It has become…
Two million more votes, plus: rigging the vote
There’s this: And then there’s this: Experts Urge Hillary Clinton to Challenge Election Results https://t.co/DciHTSivZ2 via @intelligencer — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 23, 2016
Unopen Government #nlpoli
The idea of open data has been around for a while. In government, it means that government would make information like census data, statistics, licensing information easily and freely available…
Fate of BC’s ancient forests is a question of “values”
Craig Pettitt of Valhalla Wilderness Society in the Incomappleux Valley How do we value wilderness? What metrics should we apply to an 1,800-year-old tree, or the tiny lichens that make…
If There’s One Thing We Ought to Have Learned.
One thing that we have learned about Donald Trump, both from his last two years on the campaign trail and from the Trump of earlier decades, is that it takes…
When the "Indispensible Nation" Becomes Expendable.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Max Boot argues that “Trump’s ‘America First’ Is the Twilight of American Exceptionalism.” Boot’s essay begins with an extensive catalogue of the similarities between Obama’s policies…
Smoke-Free Alberta asks: Why hasn’t all of the Smoking Reduction Act been enacted?
PHOTOS: Water pipes and flavoured tobacco … Why has Alberta legislation outlawing them not been enacted? There are no secret political messages in this picture, by the way. Below: Alberta…
Delegate election rules make it easy for Kenney to win, Unite Alberta Party name reserved by Elections Alberta
Jason Kenney has been fined $5,000 by the Progressive Conservative Party for breaking leadership rules by holding a hospitality suite in the same building as a party Delegate Selection Meeting…