Do As We Say, Not As We Litigate
The SaskParty’s Premier Brad Wall is a spectacular, passionate hypocrite. Listen to the emotion in his voice in the video clip at SARM below. @TheStarPhoenix "“Is it reasonable for the…
April 2017
SaskParty Runs a Corrupt Province
Hey @SaskParty, you want to at least do your corruption on the down-low from here on out? Brown paper bags.https://t.co/F0GrC01qk8 #skpoli — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) April 20, 2017 Is it…
“I’ll watch you for a while, I know you like that.”
Who’d ever say that to a woman? Take Our Poll If you guessed John Horgan, BC NDP leader, you’d guess right. He said it today to BC Premier Christy Clark.…
Thin Air of the Knowable by Wendy Donawa tops Audreys Books list of fiction bestsellers last week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 16, 2017, compiled on April 18, 2017, by Audreys Books…
Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP wins Alberta’s first-quarter fund-raising sweepstakes, continuing trend from 2016
ILLUSTRATIONS: Elections Alberta’s icon on a canola-yellow field. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, just to pluck a couple of names out of the story.…
BC’s NDP leader is a Trump-like sexist jerk
This is Kim Campbell Week One level self-immolation, folks. Holy shit. BREAKING: #BCNDP leader reveals self to be sexist, insulting, condescending creep. Wow. #BCpoli #BCelxn2017 https://t.co/5YlVrlSVXJ — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
One big problem for Alberta’s ‘unite-the-centre’ effort: the NDP already occupies that space
PHOTO: Stephen Mandel, would-be uniter of Alberta’s “centre,” when he was a Tory minister. April 19, 2017 – The effort by a group of politicians previously associated with the Progressive…
A Shivering Premier in a Hot Housing Market
I am watching Premier Kathleen Wynne and Charles Sousa introduce their Fair Housing Plan and I must say I am both impressed and skeptical. Wynne has mentioned a few times…
420
Here’s the dope on dope, from an old Straight Edge punk, in a handy bulleted, bolded list. It’s a drug. When prescribed, it should be only available from pharmacists. It’s…
The World Needs More Rick Steeves
The vast majority of you are undoubtedly familiar with Rick Steeves, the peripatetic world traveller who has taken his PBS viewers and readers of his travel guides on some memorable…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Martin Patriquin takes Saskatchewan’s increasing recognition of the Wall government’s institutional corruption to the national stage: Politicians who navigate a corrupted political…
New column day
Here, pointing out that the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (PDF) serves no useful purpose even on the terms of its advocates following the unveiling of the Canadian Free Trade…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law Toronto for Thursday April 20, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become…
Basic Income Being Tested in Ontario
Basic income is a concept that is being tried in Finland and now in Canada. The idea is to give people just enough money to live off of regardless of…
Much Better At Making War
Now that the Trump administration has discovered that, to get to North Korea, its armada has to sail in the opposite direction, Tom Walkom suggests that it should also reverse…
Trump’s ‘Milk of Human Kindness.’
“Once again unto the breach” (sorry Mr. Shakespeare) President Trump jumps into a situation of which he has absolutely no understanding. He is making a habit of it and this…
Official Launch Tonight!
Just a reminder to my friends who haven’t already heard: we’re having the launch party for Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move tonight from 7-9 p.m.…
First quarter political party fundraising puts NDP in the lead
Elections Alberta released the financial disclosures showing the results of political party fundraising in the first quarter of 2017. Combined party and constituency fundraising results show the governing New Democratic…
Marine Le Pen’s hopes of winning the presidency may rest on her appeal among the young (repost)
Songbirds flitted among the redbud trees. The wind tickled yellow flowers in fields of rapeseed. The medieval church clock clanged on the hour. Read the rest of this post on…
‘Racialized international students’ targeted by Quebec government language probe, group says (repost)
Quebec’s Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness faced allegations Tuesday of possible racial profiling and violating the constitutional rights of more than 500 international students whose French skills are the…