Wind Power: One of the Cheapest Sources of Energy
Sustainable and renewable energy sources continue to get more cost effective when compared to fossil fuel based energy. This is fantastic since the economics of scale are really kicking into…
September 2017
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of September 5, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of September 5, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills,…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 5, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 5, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: ACLU sues over Trump ban on transgender individuals joining the military Trump’s…
Not Getting All Shook Up
Donald Trump keeps threatening to tear up NAFTA. Tom Walkom writes that there’s no need to panic. In fact, Trump may be doing us a favour: We know that Canada…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Finn discusses how corporate giants exert far more influence than we generally know – or should be willing to accept. And…
Andrew Scheer and Canada’s Monstrous Trump Party
In a world where the 24 hour news cycle rules, it's easy to forget how Andrew Scheer became Con leader, after one of the most disgusting leadership campaigns in modern…
What is the price of one child?
Children are returning to school at this time of year. In our wisdom, we Canadians have two types of school boards. (This is where our wannabe politicians hang out.) We…
On discriminatory treatment
Following up on this post, let’s take a look at Tom Parkin’s other recent post which offers plenty of food for thought. Parkin’s view broadly matches Guy Caron’s position on…
This week’s column: scheerly you’re mistaken
So, Andrew Scheer shuffled his “shadow cabinet” last week. It was newsworthy only in that it reminded us that the newly minted Conservative Party leader is, you know, not dead.…
A Bad News Day
A couple of days ago, some unqualified bootlicker (director of 5 corporations) wrote a column for the irving press in praise of privatizing some of our medical services. And –…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading. – Ed Finn offers a reminder of the rights and benefits we now take for granted which were won only through labour organization:…
A Resistance Movement for the Planet
Climate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil…
Hey, I know: let’s put David Duke’s name on the side of a school
Indigenous people are "savages" who should be institutionalized and forced to adopt the ways of "white men." Who said it? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 4, 2017
John Heaney, Social Blemish
Rachel Notley’s Chief of Staff – who replaced my friend Brian and will be replaced by my friend Nathan – is heading “home” to B.C. I say “home” because we…
If this had happened in the US, people would’ve heard about it
A violent neo-Nazi group’s leader gets close enough to a Prime Minister to trick him into signing a Nazi flag. In the US, there’d be a congressional inquiry into this,…
Not A Good Thing
The short version: at this year’s stampede Calgary Blood & Honour Member (“Leader”?) Kyle McKee got close enough to PM Justin Trudeau to have him autograph what turned out to…
Now Will The CBC Finally Fire Rex Murphy?
Rex Murphy has always been a grubby right-wing demagogue, and a ghastly Con if ever there was one. For years he has recycled Con talking points, and other material dredged…
North Korea’s Nukes
Over the weekend, North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb. The test, Michael Harris writes, brought universal condemnation: Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, slammed Kim Jong-un for his…
Nuclear war singalong
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