Because It’s 2017
According to a national pollution inventory, large polluters discharge millions of kilograms of toxic substances into the Canadian environment annually, yet the Toronto Public Library collects more fines for overdue…
June 2017
Trump’s worst enemy: his own mouth
Now in HuffPo!
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise law for Tuesday June 20, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that an Employee is obligated to give…
X: Recipe for Hate in the new Quill and Quire!
Here: Warren Kinsella gives kids a glimpse into the heyday of punk with Recipe for Hate (Dundurn), which details how a group of punks took down a gang of neo-Nazis…
The Wage Structure, Rents and Urban Inequality in Canada
Richard Florida’s new book, The New Urban Crisis (Basic Books, 2017) takes a careful look at rising inequality in big cities in the United States. He details the fact that…
Is the Mayor of Peterborough in a big conflict with that casino?
I have heard very, very troubling things. This, for example, is extraordinary and pretty damning. The good folks at the Peterborough Examiner asked him, straight out: Councillors didn’t debate the…
Inspiration Is Hard To Come By
There are those who believe that the world is going to hell in an authoritarian hand basket. David Leonhardt suggests that they — and we — should look at voter…
Now is the time for all good #ONpoli folks to come to the aid of the party
…if they’re Ontario Liberals, that is: The Liberals are the choice of just 23% of decided and leaning voters — down from 34% — and would secure just nine seats…
Forget NIMBYs, it’s All About YIMBYs
Anybody engaged with civic action knows the prevalence of NIMBYism, those people who say ‘Not in my Backyard’ and try to stop any progress good or bad. This attitude of…
The attention span of four-year-olds?
You sometimes wonder about the Ontario Liberal government. The kids in the cabinet are too easily distracted. Just the other day, we were reading about transportation minister Stephen Del Duca…
The Con Bigot Party and the Shame of Kellie Leitch
You might think that Kellie Leitch had embarrassed herself enough. Done what was left of her reputation enough damage.During the last election, her cultural barbarism show bombed so bad, the…
Opposition focuses its fury on Tzeporah Berman, ignores oilsands advisory group’s consensus recommendations … why?
PHOTOS: Environmentalist Tzeporah Berman. Below: Former Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president Dave Collyer, who worked successfully with Ms. Berman to produce the recommendations of the Alberta Government’s Oil Sands…
Fiscal situation of Canada’s ‘oil rich’ provinces
I’ve just written a blog post about the fiscal situation of Canada’s ‘oil rich’ provinces (i.e., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador). It consists of a summary of key points…
On shows of confidence
As British Columbia’s MLAs decide how to respond to the Clark Libs’ latest attempt to avoid the results of an election which plainly showed that voters wanted change, let’s offer…
Trans* Human Rights Bill C-16: A Look Back
Although I’ll be remarking on the passing of Bill C-16 elsewhere, I wanted to post Bill Siksay’s closing speech from February 7, 2011, back when the bill was in its…
Is Christy Clark Ramping Up for Another B.C. Election?
By Matt Price for iPolitics. Don’t think for a second that it’s Christy Clark’s nature to go quietly into the night. In response, the B.C. NDP and Greens may have…
U.S. Supreme Court rules offensive band names are okay
Here. Thank Christ, maaaan.
True Patriot Love: Why the Kinder Morgan pipeline will never be built
Photo: Damian Manda / Flickr CC License The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project will never see the light of day. -Grand Chief Philip Stewart, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs If…