Children playing in Bethlehem • Photo by Dawei Ding The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a crass expression of colonial thought that Canada helped realize.…
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that the U.K. government is “politically dead from neck down” and Scots would be smart to get out while they can.Whenever I visit Scotland, I’m…
I don't know how many times I've heard a dying person say, " I'm glad I'm going first because I can't imagine living without my beloved husband/wife/companion." Which although it's…
An Alberta-based volunteer working group, of which I’m a part, recently released a document titled Foundations for an Alberta Alternative Budget (for media coverage, see this Metro article). Working group…
Not good. That’s what Rebel Media’s Gavin McInnes said on a video, found here. Here’s some other things he said: “God, so obsessed with the Holocaust. … I don’t know…
It is hardly an insight to state that we have largely wasted and abused the intelligence that evolution has conferred on us. Instead of nurturing and protecting our own species…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Wanda Wyporska writes that growing inequality is primarily the result of political choices: If it seems ridiculous that 1,000 people work harder or…
Maybe this is a first step at dismantling one of the harshest patriarchies on the planet? Or maybe that as we pivot to a society of gender equality, we can…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday March 15, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
I must admit that when I saw Rachel Maddow's breathless promo, for a brief moment I had a vision of Donald Trump in handcuffs.But sadly, although the leaked tax forms…
There's a reason why @JustinTrudeau & #LPC have been very quiet on @KellieLeitch & @kevinolearytv. They desperately want #CPC to pick them. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 15, 2017
As past president of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, we have known for a long time that the Liberation treatment for Multiple Sclerosis patients does not work. It never…
Mr. Justice Robin Camp has resigned. You may remember that Camp is the Alberta judge who wondered why a woman who appeared in his courtroom — alleging that she had…
For years, B.C. Premier Christy Clark has been under immense pressure to deliver on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) promises that formed the backbone of her 2013 election campaign. Back…
This is a reprint of a post from a couple of years ago. I think it’s worth publishing again, because the lessons about stress management from First Nations peoples are…
Smog and Beijing go hand in hand due to the explosive growth of car ownership and poor environmental management. That’s starting to change. China’s capital city has mandated that when…
PHOTOS: Wildrose Leader Brian Jean. Below: Progressive Conservative leader-presumptive Jason Kenney, former PC leadership candidate turned NDP MLA Sandra Jansen, NDP Finance Minister Joe Ceci and a very large sewer…
Bob Kinnear, former president, ATU Local 113 A sign of the tragic disarray of the Canadian labour movement is the extent to which its misadventures keep piling up. As the…
Actually McInnes isn't a fan of Palestinians specifically and Muslims in general either, but we're sort of getting ahead of ourselves here. We've written about Ezra Levant a number of…
The cybersecurity debate can undermine human rights and the international obligation on governments to protect them, argues Lucy Purdon, a policy officer at Privacy International. The post Cybersecurity should protect…
