Dear Kev
Column, now on HuffPo. Got a lot of comments about this one. Sample: “You’re mean, but I like it.” Snippet: You weren’t going to ever, ever beat Justin Trudeau. He…
May 2017
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 4, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. An estate trustee is entitled to be paid for…
Cats Actually Like Humans
It might seem that your cat dosen’t care about you, but that’s not the case. After years of false allegations that cats don’t care about humans we know have empirical…
Weather Porn
Since few seem willing to confront root causes, I guess that’s what these stories of weather disasters are becoming. Recommend this Post
Operation Medusa
Harjit Sajjan has been in hot water of late for claiming that he was the “architect” of Operation Medusa. It’s never wise to blow your trumpet too loudly. Immodesty always…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – James Wilt argues that the labour movement should be putting its weight behind green housing which will produce both social and environmental…
In the Senate: “Some are more equal.”
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm we were told that some animals are more equal than others. This makes it an appropriate analogy for the institution in Canada known as the…
Donald Trump: Crazy Like a Fox or Just Crazy?
Last weekend I watched Donald Trump celebrate his first 100 days in power with a rally in Pennsylvania.And a speech that Michael Gerson in the Washington Post called the most…
Infighting Amongst Canadian Islamophobes: Part 3
This is as much a bit of a PSA to Anti-Racist Canada's allies as it is a spotlight on Islamophobic bigots. I'm going to post the screen shot of a…
Is the Queen Dying? Could It Be Philip? Maybe the Corgis?
The Queen’s royal staff have been summoned to an emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace. Staffers are said to be descending on London from royal residences across the U.K. The news,…
Christy Clark, Rotten to the Core
There’s a reason Christy Clark governs from the cloak room. The less British Columbians can see her, close up, the better off she is. With the scantest of “drive by”…
Into the Fire by Jerron Hawlwy, Graham Hurley, and Steve Sackett tops Edmonton non-fiction bestseller list
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 30, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
#CaptSask Premier Wall Defends Fast Food Again
I guess I can send subliminal messages to the Premier through Twitter. How else do you explain this coincidence? OMG, the Premier does listen to me. https://t.co/bhaDBSucfl — John Klein…
Mothers of colour challenge white feminism
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams Between the Lines and PM Press, 2016 This is an extraordinary book. Its…
“Things are serious”: Update on the French Presidential Election
Photo by Blandine Le Cain “C’est grave,” (things are serious) said the monsieur who sells me the papers every morning. A resident of Mantes-la-Jolie (a working class town at the…
Rafe: It’s got to be the NDP to replace Lyin’ Liberals…but LNG complicates matters
NDP Leader John Horgan Like a large number of people in the WestVancouver- Sea-To-Sky constituency, I am breaking the usual rules – I want the NDP to form the next…
Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal Government In The New York Times Again. You Guessed It, Another Scandal.
And, once again, it’s not flattering to the sketchy premier or her corrupt government. The last time Crusty was featured in The Grey Lady, the venerable paper labeled her government,…
Christy Clark Could Be the Most Corrupt Premier in Modern Canadian History.
Well my favourite Loud Liberal has come up with an off-the-wall endorsement of Liberal-in-name-only, B.C. Premier Christy Clark and her sullied government. The local NDP, he tells us, are nasty…
Shortchanged in the restaurant kitchen
Photo by Life & Thyme in Los Angeles In November 2016, the Guardian newspaper reported that Le Gavroche, the three-star Michelin restaurant of famed English chef Michael Roux Jr., was…
Would a maximum wage law work for Canada?
Illustration by Notable.ca The idea of a maximum wage is the logical counterpart of a minimum wage in ameliorating extremes in market outcomes. With the global equality gap rupturing societies…