Ottawa neo-Nazis strike again
For the third time in less than a week, a swastika has been spray-painted on a Jewish place of worship. Police are investigating after the Nazi symbol was left on…
2016
The Normalization Begins
The other day, I wrote about a New Yorker article by David Remnick in which he warns of the insidious normalization of Donald Trump and his twisted values that will…
New column day
Here, on how the impression that our votes for change don’t produce the expected results can lead to the public putting up with a destructive alternative just to have an…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday November 17, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Now So More Than Ever
Canadians would be foolish to ignore the ill wind that is blowing from the south. Rather than ignoring it, Clare Boychuk and Mark Dance suggest that Canadians should push back…
On decision points
Needless to say, it’s disappointing that there now doesn’t seem to be any prospect of a shift to a more proportional federal electoral system without a referendum. But the NDP’s…
The Cons, the NDP, and the Referendum Trap
As you know for almost a year Rona Ambrose and her Cons have been demanding that any plans for electoral reform must be approved by a referendum.Screeching away like a…
Celebrating Resiliency
The Rockefeller Foundation has produced a new documentary celebrating areas humans live in that are designed to be resilient to climate change. By building our cities and countries around the…
Ottawa-Vanier: by-elections are never a big deal until they are
What do I know, and what do I think? Well, I know there’s a by-election up in the East end of Ottawa today. I know there’s one in Tim Hudak’s…
Supreme Court Slams Christy Clark For Illegally Stripping BCTF Contracts
British Columbian’s children have been shortchanged for 14 years through punishing illegal cutbacks administered by then BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell’s Education minister Christy Clark. This meant 3500 fewer teachers,…
Political campaigns matter #nlpoli
New information calls for a change in perspective. Turns out that the drop in turnout identified by the initial vote results wasn’t as big a drop from 2012 as initially…
Trump, November 17: this is the face of fascism
This: Donald Trump may push through a controversial registry for immigrants from mostly-Muslim countries without seeking congressional approval, a member of his transition team has said. Kris Kobach, the Kansas…
Yassassin
Was listening to Hole on the way in, now listening to London’s Yassassin. I’m still in the mood for grrrl power. We boys mess everything up.
Breaking in the new POTUS.
POTUS is what the U.S. Secret Service, who are charged with protecting the President, call the President of the United States. The service has a long tradition of doing that…
Ego and folly #nlpoli
“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure.…
If Donald Trump won’t knuckle under, could he face an American ‘Colour Revolution’?
PHOTOS: One of many anti-Trump rallies in the United States in the past few days (from Facebook). Below: U.S. President Elect Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, U.S. Senator…
Paved Paradise Because Parking Was Already There
July 5th, 2016, after years of a mud pit following the rip-out of the previous playground: Now it looks like this again: Reasoning given: A project of this scale requires…
Alt-Reality and the Coming Realignment
It’s been a difficult time for me, since November the 8th. I, like so many others, had bought into the mainstream media story that Democratic Party nominee Hilary Clinton had…
When your friend is a rapist/ someone you know is accused of sexual assault
In response to the open letter penned/signed by many public intellectuals/writers on the Steven Galloway case…. (see here for story) and my general disappointment that that was the letter they…
Alt-Reality and the Coming Realignment
It’s been a difficult time for me, since November the 8th. I, like so many others, had bought into the mainstream media story that Democratic Party nominee Hilary Clinton had…