LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. In addition to the minimum notice and severance required by…
October 2017
Yes in my Backyard!
For too long cities have been plagued by NIMBYism – people who chant not in my backyard. People who oppose change have held back communities for too long and now…
Losing Its Moxie
Things have not been going well for the Trudeau government of late. Tim Harper catalogues its problems: Nowhere has the gap between expectations and delivery been wider than on Indigenous…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephanie Levitz reports on new polling showing an increasing number of Canadians self-identifying as part of the working class or poor, while also…
Singing Singh’s song.
On Thanksgiving, the Toronto Star devoted several thousand well chosen words to welcoming Jagmeet Singh as leader of the federal New Democratic Party. It was generous, surprisingly inaccurate, hopeful and…
Sitting through a three-hour candidates’ forum: painful, but a civic duty just the same
PHOTOS: All or part of 14 of the 25 candidates who took part in the City of St. Albert’s city council candidates’ forum last night. Below: Author Darryl Raymaker and…
Nenshi in a tight race while Iveson coasts to victory
Photo: Diana McQueen, Don Iveson, Jim Prentice and Naheed Nenshi sign the Framework Agreement that paved the way for the development of city charters on Oct. 7, 2014 (Photo source:…
Save the USA Mock the NRA
It's now been more than a week since the massacre in Las Vegas, and as you can imagine the NRA and their friends in Congress are feeling slightly beleaguered. And…
Canadian Internet Business Working With Two Hate Sites
ARC readers are aware that Stormfront (as well as the even more disgusting Daily Stormer) was taken down in August not long after the events in Charlottesville that culminated in…
Well That Explains It.
C’mon, you knew it had to be something.
Combatting Discrimination/ Bias: Panel in Brantford featuring Mary Ng
If you’re in the Brantford area on Sunday Oct 15, and want to attend an interesting political and social discussion, consider coming Sunday Oct 15 to the Islamic Community Centre…
Even Republicans Are Asking Out Loud, "Is This Guy Off His Nut?"
Somewhere Republicans are measuring Donald Trump for a straitjacket. Republican senator Bob Corker’s mocking of the Trump White House as an “adult day care center” seems to have made it…
This Is What A Complete Absence Of Integrity Looks Like
You can read more about this pathetic example of humanity and avid courter of political favour, William Wehrum, here. Recommend this Post
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline coverage.
What Kind Of a Monster Is This Guy?
Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie have now joined the ranks of actresses and starlets accusing Hollywood powerhouse producer, Harvey Weinstein, of sexual misconduct. It’s the old story of the lumpy…
It’s Not an IQ Test that Trump Needs
The test that Donald Trump needs is something more along these lines: In response to reports that Trump has fired back at Rex Tillerson for calling the president “a f#@king…
Five Reasons Canada’s Environment Commissioner Gave Ottawa a Failing Grade on Climate
Reading Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand’s report on Canada’s climate action, we’d have to say that the woman sounds … ticked. Here are five reasons Gelfand is wagging a disappointed finger…
B.C.’s First Utility-Owned Solar Project Would Allow Citizens to Rent Solar Panels
If you live in the Okanagan or Kootenays and dream of putting solar panels on your roof, FortisBC has a proposition for you. The private utility is proposing to build…