The Conservative schism becomes a chasm.
And you used to wonder why Prime Minister Stephen Harper was always flying off with his hairdresser to other parts of the world? It was obvious to many that he…
April 2017
Monchy-le-Preux #nlpoli
Very few Newfoundlanders and Labradorians let alone very few Canadians have ever heard of Monchy-le-Preux. People from St. John’s might know of Monchy Street, in the city’s Rabbit Town neighbourhood.…
The Week in Review: We know where the Wildrosers are, but where’s Jason?
ILLUSTRATIONS: Where’s Jason? If anyone spots PC Leader Jason Kenney, who doesn’t have to show up in the Legislature because he’s not an MLA, please let a responsible grownup know.…
Trudeau Liberals keep major promise by introducing marijuana legalization bill
Thursday was a good day for Canada. The legalization of a banned substance far more innocuous than dozens if not hundreds of other fully legal substances or activities has now…
Basic Income and the left: The political and economic problems
Should the Left and labour support a demand for a Basic Income (BI)? This simple question has provoked a fervent and confusing debate. The discussion over BI touches on real…
A Trump-Russia bombshell must have been coming
…so he made another kind of bombshell, to distract. MOAB: Mislead, Obstruct, Antagonize, Baffle. CNN: Washington – The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four…
Where Democracy Goes to Die
It’s NATO’s only Muslim member state. It’s the only non-European prospect for membership in the European Union. It’s been democracy’s toe hold in the Muslim world. All of that may…
Geothermal Makes Breakthrough in Federal Budget … Now What?
For more than a decade, advocates of geothermal energy have pushed for the same kind of treatment other energy producers receive from the federal government — with little progress. But…
Review: Brilliant Imperfection
I can think of few writers whose work better exemplifies radical, deeply thoughtful, passionate, nuanced, and incredibly readable engagement with the social world and its injustices than Eli Clare. Brilliant…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post about New Brunswick’s failed attempt to become a corporate tax haven – and why Brad Wall’s attempt at a similar scheme for Saskatchewan is similarly…
Our Surveillance Society
While we are both right and justified in our concerns over privacy compromises and violations that modern technology seems to have turned into a tsunami, sometimes that very technology can…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law Toronto for Thursday April 13, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Everyone who applies in Ontario for a Certificate…
Official protest
Just like John Lennon protested the failure of ‘Cold Turkey’ moving up the charts by sending back his MBE, I am protesting that none of you have turned the Hot…
An Idea That Can Reshape The World
Our devotion to infinite growth has put the future of the planet in peril. And, out leaders — incapable of breaking away from that paradigm — are dumbfounded. George Monbiot…
The bafflement of blow-hard Brown.
It is probably for the best that the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have a schlemiel such as Patrick Brown as their leader. They will be relieved when he goes. And here…
This Accident of Being Lost and two others by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Audreys bestseller list of last week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 9, 2017, compiled on April 11, 2017, by Audreys Books…
This Accident of Being Lost and two others by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Audreys bestseller lists for last week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 9, 2017, compiled on April 11, 2017, by Audreys Books…
Cap and Trade Paints Liberals into a Corner
The results are in – and it’s good news for Ontario’s Liberal government . The Cap and Trade carbon auction out-performed the expectations of many who have been closely following…
April 12: Be Very Worried.
I can only hope this makes sense. My computer has been acting oddly all day. Perhaps a hacking attack by the Moncton Chamber of Commerce._________________________________________________________The western press makes a big…