Using Estimated Values of Estate Assets to Begin Estate Administration
BY PAUL B. ADAM, ASSOCIATE LAWYERA common practice in Ontario that has allowed an Estate Trustee to get going with the management of an Estate, before the precise value of…
February 2017
Anatomy of a phone call
What was everybody in Ottawa talking about yesterday? The electoral reform thing, for sure – but everyone knew it was a dumb promise, and one that had been without vital…
The Day Donald Trump Declared War on the World
I must admit I thought that warnings like that one would ensure that every progressive in America would walk or crawl to the polls, in order to stop Donald Trump…
Setting the stage for Wildrose 2.0: Moderates need not apply
“We must also ensure that a new, united party will be built on a solid foundation of conservative principles and policy. The left-liberal clique that managed to slowly highjack the…
What Electoral Reform?
Justin Trudeau’s newly minted Minister of Democratic Institutions has received her mandate letter. In part it read: There has been tremendous work by the House of Commons Special Committee on…
One person can spoil your whole day.
No, this is not about the poor, sick misfit who is charged with murdering six Canadians in a Quebec City mosque. It is about the guilt we all share for…
This feels like it’s happened before … it’s Groundhog Day and the Liberals have just broken a promise!
PHOTOS: Can you not quite shake the feeling, like the Canadian voter at left, things keep happening over and over again? Actual Canadian voters may not appear exactly as illustrated.…
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth appears at top of Edmonton Bestseller List for fiction
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 27, 2017, compiled on Jan. 31, 2017, by Audreys Books…
“Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Best-Selling Books List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ending Jan. 27, 2017, compiled on Jan. 31, 2017, by Audreys Books…
Holy. Shit. (Literally.)
Here. The draft order seeks to create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious or moral objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity, and it…
Nathan Cullen calls Trudeau a liar for breaking electoral reform promise [VIDEO]
Watch the NDP’s Nathan Cullen call Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a liar for breaking his promise that the 2015 federal election would be the last election under Canada’s anti-democratic first-past-the-post…
Canada’s PM Trudeau cynical about his election promises
Journalist Campbell Clark sums up the cynicism behind Justin Trudeau’s reckless abandonment of a central election promise: He calculated it was better to drop it. That’s probably not a cost-free…
The Magician’s Apprentice: Raoul Roy’s Luc Potvin (1998)
The following sidebar to The Past Is Our Master!?! was written in 1998; it is being uploaded here in the hoped of being of some interest In the late eighties…
Candidate nominations begin for Alberta’s next election but the rules have changed
The next election may be more than two years away but that is not stopping eager potential candidates from wanting a head start on the hustings. Both the Alberta Party…
Fascist Praises Cops: “Our People Have Remained Healthy” (1992)
Raoul Roy On July 6th 1991 several undercover police officers were assigned to arrest Kirt Haywood, a short Black man with dreadlocks. They mistook Marcellus François, a tall Black man…
The Catholic Far Right in Quebec: Thumbnail Sketches
CQV’s gilles Grondin meeting with Pope John Paul II The following was initially written in 1998, and somewhat updated in 2000. It should be considered a historical document, not an…
Canada’s PM Trudeau cynical about his election promises
Journalist Campbell Clark sums up the cynicism behind Justin Trudeau’s reckless abandonment of a central election promise: He calculated it was better to drop it. That’s probably not a cost-free…
Rafe: BC Liberals taking heavy fire, but NDP need to pour on the gasoline
BCNDP Leader John Horgan (Flickr/BCNDP) and Premier Christy Clark (Flickr/Province of BC) It’s not easy to write an article on politics in the quiet backwater of British Columbia in light…