Kate Boorman’s Heartfire tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 6, 2017, compiled on Jan. 10, 2017, by Audreys Books…
January 2017
TRUMP’S INTEGRITY QUESTIONED ON CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Walter M. Straub Jr. is the Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. He delivered a fascinating dissertation on the situational ethics of President-Inept Donald Trump to the Brookings…
TRUMP’S INTEGRITY QUESTIONED ON CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Walter M. Straub Jr. is the Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. He delivered a fascinating dissertation on the situational ethics of President-Inept Donald Trump to the Brookings…
The FBI, Director Comey, the New York Field Office and, Behind the Curtain, Rudy.
There may be no smoking gun yet but there’s smoke, loads of smoke. We don’t know yet whether the PervertGate scandal is even real, or real enough, to leave the…
The Truth About Toxic Friends vs Good Friends
Telling the difference between good friends and toxic friends is especially important for caregivers. Caregivers simply don’t have the dual luxuries of boundless time and energy to invest in friendships…
“Trust, But Don’t Verify”: US Intelligence Agencies and the New Cold War
James Clapper at the LBJ Presidential Library, 2016 • Photo by Jay Godwin Just as the first casualty of war is said to be the truth, the first casualty of…
The Truth About Toxic Friends vs Good Friends
Telling the difference between good friends and toxic friends is especially important for caregivers. Caregivers simply don’t have the dual luxuries of boundless time and energy to invest in friendships…
Rafe Mair: The BC election no one can win
Christy Clark (Province of BC/Flickr and John Horgan (BCNDP/Flickr) The election is sufficiently near to develop a few axioms to carry us through the sea of a largely imponderable mass…
A Backstory Fitting For a Le Carre Novel
The PervertGate scandal caught pretty much everybody by surprise. Pretty much everybody but not entirely. The Guardian has the backstory of the dossier on Trump and his dealings, how it…
Jan. 11: Credit Where Credit is Due…
The commentary pages are for informed discussion of important issues. But this is rarely the case in the irving press. What we more commonly get is uninformed rant, propaganda, pointless…
This Won’t Help – Trump – But It May End His Presidency
This won’t help Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers. The PervertGate scandal that broke out yesterday contains unsubstantiated allegations of Trump being financially groomed by the Kremlin for years. The dossier…
The Honeymoon’s Over
Not every shotgun wedding leads to a honeymoon. Even before the PervertGate dossier became public yesterday, Americans were fast losing faith in the Great Orange Bloat. The Washington Post reports…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday January 11, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jan…
Busting Urban Planning Myths
There’s a lot of misconceptions about how to make cities a better place to live that need to be cleared up. A popular belief is that adding more lanes for…
Obama’s Farewell Speech
In his last address to the nation, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans of the threat posed by what he called the “military-industrial complex.” Last night, Barack Obama told his fellow citizens…
Oh my, the little Trumpkins are upset about “false news”
Two things about that: one, I’m guessing that the Unpresident is starting to regret dissing the intelligence community; and, two, it is all quite believable when one considers the unchallenged…
Donald Trump and the Golden Shower Scandal
As you know, I've always felt that the Russians had some dirt on Trump, for what else could explain his bizarre behaviour, or his apparent crush on Vladimir Putin?Or the…
Let’s march to our own drummer.
It was hardly a surprise when the Prime Minister’s Office said he was not attending Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington next week. Frankly, the Canadian prime minister would just be…
So long, Mr. President
Couldn't watch @BarackObama last night – too sad. So I listened to my desk mascot, this morn, instead. pic.twitter.com/rWqAYzAv7Q — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 11, 2017