My Take on the Assassination of John Kennedy
I remember the day when we were sent home from school early after John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. A few of us were hanging out in the front…
October 2017
Unflinching post about a tweet about a book
Take a look at @PublishersWkly's review for @kinsellawarren's #RecipeForHate, an "unflinching page-turner": https://t.co/Eop0eiFRVp pic.twitter.com/lnFkCv7cCH — Dundurn (@dundurnpress) October 13, 2017
Five Things We Learned from the Damning Report on the University of Calgary’s Connections with Enbridge
Senior administrators at the University of Calgary suppressed academic freedom and failed to address glaring conflicts of interest while attempting to establish an Enbridge-funded research centre, according to a report…
When Professor Walt Looks at Trump He Sees – ?
When Harvard prof, Stephen Walt, looks at Donald Trump he sees – Silvio Berlusconi perhaps? Close but no cigar. Trump is frequently compared to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,…
‘No World-Class Spill Response Here’: Heiltsuk First Nation Pursues Lawsuit One Year After Tug Disaster
Kelly Brown was awoken at 4:30 a.m. on October 13, 2016, by the kind of phone call nobody ever wants to receive : an environmental catastrophe was unfolding a 20-minute…
Lest We Forget
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reminds us of some unpleasant truths: San Juan mayor responds to Trump's Puerto Rico tweets: "This isn't politics. This is about saving lives." https://t.co/9CA3Ips4Aq…
And This is Why I Despise the Liberals
The first line in the Globe article sums it up: Canada’s transition to a low-carbon future must include new pipelines to expand oil exports to a diverse global marketplace, federal…
Trump Won’t Be Happy Until America’s Word Is Worth As Little As His Own
Donald Trump’s life story can be reduced to one word. He’s a “grifter.” He’s a con artist, a veteran swindler, who has left a wake of bankruptcies, unpaid creditors and…
Is This The Way To Remove Donald Trump From Office?
Yesterday I wrote a post suggesting among other things that while Donald Trump is clearly unravelling, we can't count on Bob Mueller to save us.And managed to depress the hell…
Responding To "Suppressing Dissent" – A Guest Post
This morning I received a comprehensive commentary from BM, who was responding to my post Suppressing Dissent, which expressed criticism of the visit by Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins’…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday, October 13, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills,…
Ministers of the faith #5
Real nice blunt opaque wood-cut quality to this brush. Probably with some reshaping and multiplying onto a wood texture layer, it could look real good. Filed under: art
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Bruenig explores the U.S.’ wealth inequality and finds a similarly skewed distribution of wealth among all kinds of demographic subgroups. And Robert…
The Trump Show
When it comes to Donald Trump, Neal Gabler writes, we keep missing the point. We judge him as a president. Trump doesn’t see himself as a president, Instead, he is…
Big political graves are dug with tiny shovels
Bev Oda’s orange juice. David Dingwall’s gum. Mike Duffy’s travel claims. British MPs claiming for barbecues and garden equipment. None were capital offenses, none approached the threshold for a crime,…
Trump stands steadfast, Justin.
Prime Minister Trudeau dropped in to the White House to see President Trump the other day. It is likely that two minutes after Trudeau left the Oval Office, Donald Trump…
Wildrose leader complains UCP voting system may be rigged, and not in his favour
PHOTOS: Then Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean, holding microphone, addressing an anti-carbon-tax, anti-Bill-6, anti-etc. rally on the steps of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton in December 2016. The visible sign…
Vancouver By-Election Endorsements
Just in case anyone is wondering how I will vote in this Saturday’s Vancouver municipal by-election, here’s the plan: City Council: Pete Fry (Green Party) School Board: Judy Zaichkowsky (Green…
Kevin Goudreau Planning Rally in Toronto And Pretending To Be A Hammerskin
When anti-government/anti-refugee extremist groups held rallies across the country on September 30, they were outnumbered in most locations by as many as 10 to 1 (only in Quebec were numbers…
Influences
There is this building on Saint Ambroise in Saint Henri that I always refer to as the “Cartier-Bresson Building” because it reminds me of this picture. And that’s the way…