Okay, We’re Pretty Good
I wish this came out a few days earlier, but… The Hamburg-based statistics portal, Statista, has released a graphic of the nations seen as having the most positive influence globally.…
July 2017
Coming Apart at the Seams
It’s almost too grotesque to watch. The wheels are falling off the GOP wagon. Even with a unified government – control of the House, the Senate and the presidency –…
Credit Where Credit Is Due – Kudos to Patti Hadju
It’s a cornerstone of progressive democracy, the balancing of the interests of labour versus capital. During the Harper years labour, especially organized labour, was treated like a disease. Abraham Lincoln…
Oh, And Another Thing
This letter from today’s Star is a fitting response to all of the snarling and foaming coming from the mouth of newly-installed Conservative leader Andrew Scheer over the apology and…
How Facebook Can Eliminate Fake News
Since the election of Donald Trump as President, the term Fake News has become more common in both social media and regular media streams. For many of us, it has…
How Facebook Can Eliminate Fake News
Since the election of Donald Trump as President, the term Fake News has become more common in both social media and regular media streams. For many of us, it has…
Have We Become Human Foie Gras?
It’s considered a delicacy, goose or duck liver pate, a.k.a. foie gras. It’s made by force feeding grain to the birds in quantities that cause the liver to expand by…
Harry On Social Justice and Canada
Harry Leslie Smith first came to my attention from a Remembrance Day op-ed he penned for The Guardian in 2013, “This year, I will wear a poppy for the last…
Think of It as "Duck and Cover" for the 21st Century
Perhaps you’re already familiar with this but I wasn’t. In the UK there’s a programme called “Run, Hide, Tell” to prepare Brits for terrorist incidents while they’re on holiday. But…
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of July 10, 2017
Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 10, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
Justin, Climate Change is Here and It’s Hurting. Now, Can You Stop Making It Worse?
On Friday, British Columbia logged no fewer than 140 new forest fires. That might be a record. Then again, climate change is bringing the world plenty of records. Worst ever…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 10, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 10, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge tells Ontario woman who has sued dozens she is no longer…
X: Recipe for Hate – in today’s Hill Times!
Over there on the right. I look rather edgy.
To Fight Inequality we Need to Fight Poor Perception
Inequality is on the rise throughout the developed world and there’s no better example of this increase than in the USA. The concept of the “American Dream” has led to…
Same Old, Same Old
Andrew Scheer may be the new leader of the Conservative Party; however, Adam Radwanski writes, his party is still Stephen Harper’s Party. That’s abundantly clear from Scheer’s and the party’s…
The Prince of the Past.
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales will be a pathetic pallbearer likely to be tasked to shut down the House of Windsor. As a family business, the House of Windsor inherited…
Khadr: Getting Facts Straight
The Khadr payout is not about guilt or innocence of a single person. It’s about the guilt of our government concerning the protection of the Canadian Charter of Rights and…
This week’s column: on Trudeau and Alberta
So, the Alberta mistake. Also, the braying and screeching. Even the Washington Post has (amusingly) taken note. The Washington Post! The hullaballoo – the ceaseless braying and screeching – has…
More Small Town Banks Closing in Saskatchewan
"Those people that sit with their pointed heads and their pointed pencils and tell us and take … the bank away from us — https://t.co/TYFDdJosUx — Saskboy (@saskboy) July 9,…
Hallelujah
This was going to be a Ms-Soapbox-is-stampeding-see-you-next-week-blog…then she remembered something. Ms Soapbox’s sister and brother-in-law popped into town just in time for the Calgary Stampede. We did the fair grounds,…