They’re Coming
The world is awash in refugees. And the world is closing its eyes and its doors. Crawford Killian writes: According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, over 65 million…
February 2017
Damages Claims for Assault by Parents and Caregivers Upon Children
BY PAUL ADAM, ASSOCIATE LAWYER A recent parliamentary bill in Ontario, the “Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act” brought changes to Ontario’s Limitations Act, and removed virtually all time…
Preston Manning and the Sad State of the Trump Cons
For years, during the dark days of the Harper regime, the Manning Centre Conference was an event where the Cons went to brag about how they were changing Canada beyond…
Donald Trump and the Real Steve Bannon
Saturday Night Live likes to portray Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's chief strategist, as the Grim Reaper.And the real president of the United States.But now that Bannon has emerged from the…
The onerous burden of responsibility
Imagine you’re in high school one day around the end of the year. It’s warm outside, sunny, and you want out of the stuffy classroom. You’re not paying attention. You’re…
Nobody gives a damn about English.
It is only when you note the time and money devoted to preserving the French language in different parts of the world, that you start to wonder. Is the English…
Asserting our Knowledge #nlpoli
Opinions are great things. Everyone is entitled to them. Not every opinion, though, is equal in value or validity or, as former CBC boss Tony Manera showed recently, in veracity.…
Asserting our Knowledge #nlpoli
Opinions are great things. Everyone is entitled to them. Not every opinion, though, is equal in value or validity or, as former CBC boss Tony Manera showed recently, in veracity.…
"Trudeau Gave Us Hope."
The rest of Canada doesn’t “get” British Columbia. I understand that. We’re those odd people past the mountains, just beyond Alberta where Canada, in so many ways, ends. Eastern prime…
Two views of Alberta third-quarter financial update: Steady as Joe goes, versus Faster, Pussycat! Cut! Cut!
PHOTOS: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci, on a day when the sun was really shining. Below: Former premier Ralph Klein, the haze on fond memories as painted by his portraitist;…
Stranger Things Have Happened.
Could Donald Trump be the straw that broke the Union’s back? Could he cause the “left coast” of America (perhaps Canada too) to secede? Across the Pacific Northwest there’s been…
B.C. Cancels Controversial Hazardous Waste Disposal Permit in Shawnigan Lake Watershed
Photo credit to Laura Colpitts. B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak announced today she is revoking a permit granted to Cobble Hill Holdings for the disposal of 5 million tonnes of…
B.C. Cancels Controversial Hazardous Waste Disposal Permit in Shawnigan Lake Watershed
B.C. environment minister Mark Polak announced today she is revoking a permit granted to Cobble Hill Holdings for the disposal of 5 million tonnes of contaminated waste in a local…
Rasputin Speaks
To Steve Bannon, Trump, on the campaign trail proved to be the greatest public speaker since William Jennings Bryan. To anyone who sat through some of Trump’s campaign speeches, that…
The Tyranny of the Minority
America didn’t get where it is today overnight. It took the better part of 60-years. Writing in Harper’s, Rebecca Solnit traces how the “Tyranny of the Minority” came to be.…
A Wetter Wet Coast
Floods we get. Drought, we’re not so sure. A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the entire west coast of North America is in for a lot…
Forming An Antifa Group: A Manual (repost)
Anti-fascist groups, often called “antifa,” are popping up all around the United States, and a number of people have asked us for advice on forming a group. Read the rest…
aswan: abu simbel
Our last full day in Egypt was a study in extremes, both good and bad. Abu Simbel has been on my wish-list to see since learning about it in university…
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
A new edition of Confronting Fascism, containing exactly the same material as in the first edition (though redesigned to look nicer) is now at the printers! Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents…
Climate Change Displacing Canada’s Bison
It’s a clear cut problem. Since 1986 lakes in Canada’s north have doubled in area. That additional water has encroached on natural habitats including the Mackenzie bison preserve. This is…