How Teck Resources benefits from being the largest BC Liberal donor
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Revelations about the amount of corporate money coming to the BC Liberals have many people asking: what are these companies getting in return? It’s a good…
April 2017
Neil Macdonald Has the Long And the Short of Americans and Their Healthcare Quandry
The CBC’s Neil Macdonald has picked up a lot during his years working in the United States. Among other things he’s gotten a pretty good handle on Americans and their…
Comparing Mine Management in B.C. and Alaska is Embarrassing (and Explains Why Alaskans Are So Mad)
Alaskans tired of living under the threat of B.C.’s poorly regulated mines are taking the matter to the state’s House Fisheries Committee in an effort to escalate an international response…
Righting a past wrong
At the 10 April 2017 meeting of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, NPA Commissioner Casey Crawford has a motion on notice called ” Recreation Fees for Pre-schoolers and…
April 5: at the end – our first step to sanity is recognizing why we aren’t sane.
Here’s a story that didn’t make our Brunswick news. Bombardier aircraft in Montreal, which has been feeding itself lavishly on our taxes recently got a huge handout from the Canadian…
Budgeting for the oil bust in Saskatchewan and Alberta
The resource price bust is already a few years old but it’s still hitting parts of Canada hard. Two guests talk about the impact of the downturn on fiscal policy…
Whaaat? Steve Bannon Booted Off National Security Council
Well this is certainly awkward. White House ventriloquist and Trump puppeteer-in-chief, Steve Bannon, has lost his seat on Trump’s National Security Council. Loose lips sink ships, perhaps? Stay tuned.
Putting Equal Pay Day In a New Light
Equal for whom, when? Tuesday will be Equal Pay Day. On a global basis, it’s the day on which the average woman has to work to equal the pay the…
Four Won’t Do It? LA Times Editorial, Part IV
Today is Day Four of the Los Angeles Times’ four part editorial on Donald Trump. It began on Sunday with “Our Dishonest President,” then on Monday it was “Why Trump…
The Trump Forest
There’s a new forest growing and it’s spreading over the entire world – and you can help spread it. Trump Forest is more of an idea than a physical place,…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 5, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. The property rights of common law spouses upon separation are…
Freedom From Democracy
For forty years, the buzzword on the Right has been “freedom.” George Monbiot writes: Propaganda works by sanctifying a single value, such as faith, or patriotism. Anyone who questions it…
ISIS, punk rock and the Hot Nasties
They’re all connected. Seriously. So, there’s these two guys, profiled last week in the Washington Post: Lucas Chapman, left, and Brace Belden, U.S. volunteers with the People’s Protection Units, or…
Making Provincial Policy Based on Toronto Issues Is A MISTAKE
It looks like the Wynne government is going to make a disastrous mistake with respect to easing house restriction requirements laid out in the past. This would be a mistake.…
Elizabeth May: The last liberal.
Elizabeth May M.P. is the leader of a party that never was. She is the only Green Party member in parliament and therefore is deprived of real recognition of that…
Manifest brevity
You'd be forgiven for thinking the United States is not a serious country anymore. #USPolitics pic.twitter.com/cEYtHdEbaz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 5, 2017
Scottish Independence and the Brexit Nightmare
In a few hours I'll be leaving the country and setting off for Edinburgh, to attend the wedding of one of my oldest friends.And since I'll be racing between that…
Former Corporate Lobbyists Running for B.C. Liberals Part of ‘Alarming Trend’: Watchdog
Five B.C. Liberal candidates running in the current election are also former lobbyists who advocated for corporations including Chevron, Pacific Northwest LNG and ExxonMobil in the offices of Premier Christy…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Decorated cats.
Trump declares war on his allies
Get a load of this. Visitors planning getaways to the U.S. might have to relinquish their cell phone contacts and passwords under new ‘extreme vetting’ procedures being developed by the…