Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nick Falvo lists ten things to know about social programs in Canada. And Mike Crawley offers a painful example of Ontario’s social safety…
May 2017
A B.C. Liberal Minority Government? Not So Fast
In the wee hours of Wednesday morning major news outlets like the CBC made the official call: the B.C. Liberals had won a minority government in the 2017 provincial election.…
Liberals propped up by a tiny Green caucus may be worst outcome of B.C. election for Alberta’s NDP
PHOTOS: B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver (CBC photo), who seems to have found his tiny three-member caucus holding the balance of power in the province’s Legislature. Below: B.C. Premier…
Media Relations, Trump-Style
Politicians have always wrestled with annoying journalists and their annoying questions. Until now, that is. Tom Price, Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, knows how to deal with pesky reporters.…
Canada’s Effort to suppress “Popular Protests” against Israeli Occupation
Photo by Chris Wattie/Reuters The Canadian media has mostly ignored recent Palestinian efforts to non-violently disrupt a half-century old occupation. They’ve barely reported on a prisoners’ hunger strike and associated…
Southcore Financial Centre Showcases Mixed-Use Sustainable Development
The Southcore Financial Centre is a showcase of mixed-use sustainable development in Toronto’s financial district. The three new interconnected towers—PricewaterhouseCoopers Tower, Bremner Tower, Delta Toronto Hotel—incorporate sustainability best practices in…
Too Early for Counting Chickens
There’s still a possibility that Christy Clark may emerge from yesterday’s election with a razor-thin majority. As things stand now she’s looking at a minority with the NDP rebounding to…
Southcore Financial Centre Showcases Mixed-Use Sustainable Development
The Southcore Financial Centre is a showcase of mixed-use sustainable development in Toronto’s financial district. The three new interconnected towers—PricewaterhouseCoopers Tower, Bremner Tower, Delta Toronto Hotel—incorporate sustainability best practices in…
Brace Yourself. It Might Be Getting Hotter Than Expected.
By now pretty much everybody understands the “greenhouse effect.” Greenhouse gases, primarily CO2 and methane, released into the atmosphere trap solar energy just like a greenhouse and the Earth gets…
In yesterday walks tomorrow
As I told CITY TV last night: “In the movies, when the bad guy takes out one of the cops, do the cops give up their investigation of the bad…
Feminism and Intersectionality, LIVE!
Feminism, intersectionality, activism in a world spinning out of rationality? Need to some grounding, inspiration and joy? Want to see the woman who invented the word “intersectionality”? Here’s what should…
3 Things You Can do Now to Improve Your Life
Happiness is an elusive thing – one can never have enough and striving for it makes it unattainable. We all want happiness in our, so how can we achieve a…
Donald Trump, James Comey, and the Kiss of Death
A few days after he was sworn in as President, Donald Trump spotted FBI director James Comey at a White House event and blew a big orange kiss at him.He…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday May 10, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. A final divorce judgment cannot be granted until one year…
BC: who won, who lost
The BC Liberals won. They got more seats. And they may still pick up enough in recounts to give them a majority. The BC Greens won. They grew their popular…
Comey had it Coming!
Years in the future, when humans develop the ability to inspect the time line and revisit moments in history, they will most likely mark two main points of interest regarding…
Comey had it Coming!
Years in the future, when humans develop the ability to inspect the time line and revisit moments in history, they will most likely mark two main points of interest regarding…
Comeygate
The stench surrounding Donald Trump got stronger yesterday. And his abysmal ignorance of everything became even more apparent. Jill Abramson writes: We know that President Trump has a stunning ignorance…
Is Andrea Horwath circling the drain?
There had to be some confusion in Ontario New Democratic Party ranks last week. It was caused by an unfortunate story about the NDP getting a second wind “With Horwath…