With A Capital L
Yesterday was a bad day for Donald Trump. If there was one thing that yesterday’s hearing made clear, it is that Trump is a Liar –with a capital L. David…
March 2017
A Circumstantial Noose
In his opening statement before James Comey’s testimony yesterday in front of the House Intelligence Committee probing Trump ties to Russia, Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (CA) laid out of all…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here are your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday March 21, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
Kevin O’Leary doesn’t know who the Minister of Public Safety is
It’s Ralph Goodale. You know, the Saskatchewan Liberal who has been in the House of Commons since 1993, which coincidentally is the same year that Kevin O’Leary moved to Boston,…
Roethke
It’s apparently International Poetry Day, or something like that. Having always loved poetry – and having always lacked the ability to write it well, myself – I decided I would…
Kevin O’Leary meets a real reality.
Welcome to Canadian politics, Kevin O’Leary. You have brought a few laughs to an otherwise dismal contest for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. Though you would think someone…
Donald Trump and the Day of Reckoning
It was an extraordinary sight, and Donald Trump's day of reckoning.His worst nightmare coming true.The FBI director, and the director of the National Security Agency, testifying before the House Intelligence…
"Remarkable Changes… That Are Challenging the Limits of Our Understanding of the Climate"
The World Meteorological Organization admits that it’s struggling to comprehend the nature and pace of climate change now upon us. “Earth is a planet in upheaval due to human-caused changes…
March 19 Anti-Muslim Rallies: Some Victories, Some Hard Lessons
By this point ARC readers know that any time we mention Kevin "The Chairman" Goudreau on the blog, it is probably because he did something profoundly stupid or embarrassing but…
Guest Post: With friends like these … Jason Kenney’s biggest challenge may come from his political allies
PHOTOS: Jason Kenney at the centre of a media scrum a few days before his victory in the Progressive Conservative Party leadership race. Expect to see him in this situation…
Housing in the age of austerity: Toronto’s war on the poor
Asquith Park, Yorkville • Photo by Ed007Toronto For those in Toronto’s growing majority of low income neighbourhoods, things are bad and getting worse — and it’s no accident. A study…
Leadership 2017 Links
This and that from the NDP’s leadership campaign. – Among the coverage of the first leadership debate which I hadn’t linked before, Karl Nerenberg offers both a ranking and a…
March 20: Okay. I’m long winded today.
News media don’t often have a kind word for Trump. Here’s an exception. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.777881?utm_content=%2Fisrael-news%2F1.777881&utm_medium=email&utm_source=smartfocus&utm_campaign=newsletter-daily&utm_term=20170319-15%3A03 I have to admit that I don’t usually have a kind word for him either. But…
The Alternative Federal Budget 2017
This year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) was released on March 9. I was proud to be the primary author of its housing chapter (that chapter is available in English here…
What Happened Today in Washington
The House hearings went on for four hours. These two videos should suffice
The Alberta Budget: Door No. 1, Door No. 2 or Door No. 3?
Before you let the Opposition parties scare you to death with apocalyptic warnings that Alberta is “drowning in debt”, “driving over a fiscal cliff” and “unfairly burdening future generations” read…
This week’s column: campaigns don’t matter – words do
Campaigns matter. That’s a long-time conceit of political consultants, of course. We say it all the time. I even worked at a successful political consulting firm which trademarked the phrase.…
4 Reasons the ‘Oil to Tidewater’ Argument is Bunk
Access to world markets for Canadian oil has been available since 1956 when the Westridge dock was constructed in Burnaby, B.C., and linked to the Trans Mountain pipeline. The dock’s…
Pollyanna says: hail to Canada’s media
It’s not because the NNA nominees are out that I am reminded that we have some of the best media in the world. Not at all. I think, like Jerry…