Labour Minister Christina Gray introduced Bill 17, the Fair and Family-friendly Workplaces Act, into the Legislative Assembly today. This bill includes long-awaited reforms to modernize Alberta’s Labour Code and Employment…
Standing between beds of golden beets and elephant garlic in the garden of Lincoln Hills, a small organic farm in Placer County, California, Tammi Riedl looks up and points to…
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Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 21, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Kinder Morgan is providing potential investors with shoddy information, according to a complaint filed with the Alberta Securities Commission by Greenpeace Canada last week. The formal complaint contends the company’s…
Trump’s Health Care Victory Party The Republican majority pushed it through the House of Representatives although many legislators admitted they hadn’t even read it. They voted without waiting for the…
British Columbia’s far from liberal premier, Christy Clark, appears to have come up short, finally, ending her party’s majority rule over the province going back to 2001. Give Christy her…
The May edition of Foreign Policy magazine is their climate change issue. As a keen follower of climate science for the past 15 years or more, the shortcomings in the…
Here’s the thing. We live in a society that values youth over experience, wisdom, ability and knowledge. I’m not sure why we do that, but children are more valuable to…
In yesterday’s copy of Brunswick News, there was a standard feature on the Commentary page. It was a column written by a ‘scholar’ writing for the Atlantic Institute for Market…
To some, conspiracy theorists and those with a feeble understanding of governance, the Deep State is a sinister group of powerful insiders manipulating the strings of government for devious ends.…
Even Americans pay attention to this facet of climate change – sea level rise. And the news is bad and getting worse. You probably remember the early 1990s well enough.…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Younge examines how Jeremy Corbyn and an unabashedly progressive campaign platform are making massive gains in a UK general election cynically called…
Yes, Christy, this is about you – and the rest. Christy Clark, Canada’s Queen of Cash has been known to be a grateful recipient of campaign contributions from those friendly…
He says he has no and never has had any connections with the Russians since entering politics but Donald Trump is smart enough to lawyer up anyway. Donald Trump has…
Here: Singh’s entry provides the ideological left with a convenient “out” for this discomfort — all the progressive policies of the prime minister but delivered by a more believable champion.…
Another one of those “a picture is worth…” moments. A lucky photographer captures the moment as a wave of utter ecstasy sweeps across the face of pope Francis as he…
Parkinson’s negatively impacts millions of people around the world by making their muscles harder to control. Basically, in people with Parkinson’s the brain fires extra signals which can cause involuntary…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday May 24, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) assist Ontario Courts in…
Ceremony, as those who know me know, is the Joy Division song – not the New Order song – that will be played at my funeral. It was never properly…
