Here’s What Global Weirding Looks Like
It’s hard to use the word “weird” these days except in a comment about America’s Great Orange Bloat. However this animated gif shows another “dark of winter” heatwave hitting the…
February 2017
White Privilege and Moral Indignation. . .
I am disappointed about recent political/social events. Ok, disappointment is far too week a word. Perhaps existential dread is a better word for my prevailing emotion. But then I think…
White Privilege and Moral Indignation. . .
I am disappointed about recent political/social events. Ok, disappointment is far too week a word. Perhaps existential dread is a better word for my prevailing emotion. But then I think…
Trudeau’s Growth Council is back with more bad ideas
Justin Trudeau’s friends in finance, consulting and big business dominate the grandly named Advisory Council on Economic Growth. A few months after recommending a giant privatization scheme, the gang is…
White Privilege and Moral Indignation. . .
I am disappointed about recent political/social events. Ok, disappointment is far too week a word. Perhaps existential dread is a better word for my prevailing emotion. But then I think…
More Americans Working in Solar Than in Coal
The coal industry is failing and sustainable alternatives are on the rise. No matter what politicians do to try and “save” coal it’s clear that the dirty source of electricity…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 9, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, and…
‘The punches we’ve taken have made us stronger’: Podemos leader goes for broke | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/podemos-leader-pablo-iglesias-spain-anti-austerity-movement Filed under: Uncategorized
The EPCOR sales pitches
I’m told the interim CAO is distressed – apoplectic, really – that I am aware of his sales pitch information sessions in which he touts the wonders of EPCOR to…
A Change of Pace
Perhaps I am in a bit of a mood, but I don’t feel like writing about politics today. Instead, today’s subject is death, which we all must confront at some…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 9, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, and…
The Unpresident’s new low
…and it isn’t even noon yet. Says the enemy-coddling, draft-dodging coward about the POW/war hero who was tortured and remained loyal to USA. #uspoli https://t.co/VZJj2NTcL4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February…
Ambassador Palin?
Ashifa Kassam reports in The Guardian that Sarah Palin is being considered for the post of American Ambassador to Canada. Presumably, her main qualification for the job is that, from…
Kellie Leitch and the Redneck From Wasilla
If you see Kellie Leitch galloping past you screaming hysterically, don't panic.She's not warning us about an American invasion, or warning us that Kevin O'Leary has left his home in…
The Scary Corruption of Donald Trump
It's not like it was impossible to predict what might happen when the Trump mob took over the White House.Or guess that they might make the Sopranos look like angels.So…
Hand-wringing in academia.
You would have thought that Edward Greenspon had covered the subject. He released his Public Policy Forum report on Canada’s news media recently and we thought that was it. We…
Sweat Equity – panel discussion #nlpoli
ISER Books and the Queen Elizabeth II Library will hold a panel discussion on the recent ISER publication Sweat Equity: Cooperative House Building in Newfoundland 1920-1974. Authors Chris Sharpe and…
Sweat Equity – panel discussion #nlpoli
ISER Books and the Queen Elizabeth II Library will hold a panel discussion on the recent ISER publication Sweat Equity: Cooperative House Building in Newfoundland 1920-1974. Authors Chris Sharpe and…
Americans Should Appreciate Canada’s Exports
In this case, Sam Bee: