Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of April 3, 2017
Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 3, 2017 from @wiselaw on Twitter. For more information on employment law, family law, and wills, estates and…
April 2017
Covert Strategies for Supporting Urbanism
One of the biggest challenges facing cities in the 21st century is how to make them more people friendly. Parts of many cities have been left to rot, or have…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 3, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 3, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Eli Lilly loses NAFTA challenge brought against Canada How one province is…
Kevin O’Leary and the Death of the Harper Party
Kevin O'Leary is said to be leading the Con leadership race by a comfortable margin. Even though he won't commit to remaining Con leader, unless Canadians give him a majority.This…
What should Wynne and the OLP do?
Following the latest poll – showing the Ontario Liberal Party in third place for months, and behind the PCs in Toronto – I asked folks for their comments. I received…
No Place For Amateurs
The Bloviators of the Right have claimed for a long time that government should be run like a business. Donald Trump’s son-in-law recently repeated that claim. Government, he said, should…
When in doubt do nothing.
Is this the new political mantra? At all levels of government, we are seeing variations of stalactites and stalagmites frozen in their political positions as the world revolves around their…
Ray and Robert #nlpoli
With the release of Ray Guy: the final columns, 2003 – 2013, almost every column Ray Guy ever published is now available in book form. This compilation is edited by…
April 1 Anti-Muslim Protests and Counter-Protests: Calgary
The last article focused on Toronto. In this one I focus on the situation in Calgary. I would be remiss if I didn't first address the act of sabotage and…
Jason Kenney and the GSA reverse-tip-line brouhaha: Is this conservative turning into the Anita Bryant of Canada?
PHOTOS: Is Jason Kenney turning into Canada’s Anita Bryant? Actual Canadian politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.) Below: The real Jason Kenney, and singer-songwriters k.d. lang…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 11: Seriously, Conservatives, THIS is the best you can do?
The Conservative leadership race passed a critical milestone this week, with the cutoff for new party memberships. It was also an opportunity for any of the 14 — yes, that’s…
April 1 Anti-Muslim Protests and Counter-Protests: Toronto
We're going to focus on Toronto and Calgary in two separate articles since there's a fair about of information to unpack. We received the following information from a friend who…
A Pollster Finally Gets It Right
We see chaos, Nik Nanos sees trends. Mr Nanos heads up Nanos Research, a leading Canadian research company and official pollster for CTV News, the Globe and Mail, and Bloomberg…
What’s Lurking in the Shadows of Washington?
We’ve been having a discussion in the previous post about this thing – or supposed thing – the “Deep State.” It’s become the favourite whipping boy of the politically engaged,…
Their dishonest “president”
Quite the Los Angeles Times editorial, the first in a series. Read it here. It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue…
Meeting Iqra Khalid
It was a great pleasure and honour to be in Cambridge last night to hear Iqra Khalid speak. Ms. Khalid is the Liberal MP whose motion M-103 condemning anti-Islamaphobia as…
On anti-Liberalism
Last night, I responded on Twitter to David Akin’s Lib-fueled attack on citizen engagement in the Ottawa-Vanier by-election: Ummm, about that “anti-Liberal group” #lpc decided to whine about… https://t.co/P5EJiYTSfv #cdnpoli…
A Review of the 2017 Alberta Budget
Over at the web site of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I’ve written a review of the recent Alberta budget. Points I make in the blog post include the following: -Alberta…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson writes about the opportunities missed when governments restrict their economic policy to propping up the corporate sector, rather than seeking…
New book on the history of Canadian social housing policy
One of Canada’s foremost authorities on Canadian social housing, Dr. Greg Suttor, has just authored a book on the history of Canadian social housing policy. Titled Still renovating: A history…