British Columbian taxpayers will be on the hook for $40 million to clean up the worst mining spill in Canadian history and the company responsible has once again escaped criminal…
USA Today + investigative reporting – who’d a thunk it? In any case McNews Inc. has been reviewing records, connecting the dots, and links America’s president, DJT Jr. and the…
Sawyer Glacier, Alaska • Ian D. Keating Never before in the history of the human species has climate set so many spine-chilling new records as last year, 2016. That dire…
Captured cats.
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday March 28, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. “My ex-employer just gave me a severance proposal, but I…
A big story in today’s Washington Post about a new study finding that the warming Arctic is altering the jet stream, creating Rossby waves that can drag warm air out…
My column in HuffPo. Clip and save.
Across Canada’s north, diesel has long been the primary mode of providing year-round electricity to remote communities — but with the advent of small-scale renewables, that’s about to change. Northern…
Victoria Hermann spotted the signs in January. The managing director of America’s Arctic Institute watched as data was wiped out by Team Trump. At first, the distress flare of lost…
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jason Kenney, the victor in the PC leadership campaign now trying to create a narrative of invincibility about his ambition to lead Alberta. Below: Author Barret Weber. Charts shown…
This is a wee bit outrageous. On March 21, 1977, Robert McLagan held 11 employees at Toronto’s Banque Canadienne Nationale hostage for nearly 12 hours. Frum and her producers were…
Across Canada yesterday morning – or possibly closer to noon – pot enthusiasts woke up to find that the government may have decided on a date for the legalization of…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charles Smith and Andrew Stevens examine how Brad Wall’s slash-and-burn budget is intended to exploit a crisis for political ends – while…
If your idea to change the world is creative enough then you could get $250,000 from LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman. Technically, it’ll be from MIT Media Lab with money from…
Donald Trump called his best known book the Art of the Deal. And he has always tried to portray himself in that regard as a genius or an artist. But…
Today, Donald Trump signs an executive order to rollback Barack Obama’s environmental protection policies. Last week he re-started the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, Ross Pelot writes, is another Trumpian…
Here’s the Toronto Star: Ontario’s minister for the status of women is taking Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown to task for appearing in a luncheon speaker series arranged by the…
Seeing finance minister Bill Morneau finally get to his budget last week produced a measure of disappointment and nostalgia. He brought back distant memories of the clean-cut young Anglican priest…
We have an opioid epidemic in Canada. Here’s a prescription for ending it.
Watching the Americans thrash about trying to put together a decent health care system prompts much head-shaking and eyeball-rolling. The Republicans have bitched and moaned about Obamacare for seven years,…
