My #MeDo column on #MeToo is over on HuffPo now
Here it is. And here is a snippet: I have been resisting #MeToo. I have. For starters, I am generally pretty unenthusiastic about hashtag campaigns. Most of the time, they…
October 2017
How Long Is This Guy Planning to Live?
That’s a tall order, Mohammed, even for a crown prince. A lot of people won’t want you to live to see the day. Mohammed bin Sultan, crown prince of Saudi…
24 years ago today
My 1993 war room colleague Bruce Hartley reminded me: 24 years ago today… the first of three majority governments…balanced budgets; restoring Canada’s place in the world; protecting national unity; the…
Apparently two things are no longer covered in Quebec
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel)
Reviving the MOOC
This article was created as a response to Dhawal Shah in EdSurge on A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOC. I actually typed the article into the comment…
How We Can All Help Impeach Donald Trump
He's made the cover of New Yorker magazine again, just in time for Halloween.But even that the portrait of a killer clown can't properly portray the horror of Donald Trump.The…
Cats and beasts #13
Filed under: art
A Glimmer Of Integrity
Although the denunciations of Donald Trump from members of the GOP are welcome, the fact that they come from Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, two U.S. senators not seeking re-election,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Hugh Mackenzie writes that the biggest problem with the Libs’ closing tax loopholes for private corporations was the failure to push for far…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday October 25, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. Many custody disputes in Ontario family law matters are now…
Alive And Well
There was a time I foolishly thought we had outgrown racial and religious prejudice. The ascension of Donald Trump has underscored the fact that racial prejudice is alive and well.…
The Private Corporation Tax Loophole and the Ultra Rich
The 2017 Economic and Fiscal Update provides some detailed data (see pp. 51-53) on who will be impacted by the government’s plan to limit how much passive investment income can…
Oct. 25: Let’s Think About Nov. 11 and Our War Dead.
Readers of this column who do not have access to the Brunswick News chain are missing a daily diet of pure idiocy. The latest star of this phenomenon is an…
New Fish Food Doesn’t Require Killing Fish
When fish farms kill their fish for food some of that food is ground up and fed to other fish as nutrient pellets. It’s well known that current fishing practices…
Joly jilts journalism.
Every government for the past 50 years in Canada has wrung its collective hands over the state of Canadian journalism. We have had studies, expert reports, editorials, analyses, speeches and…
Bill Morneau and the Monstrous Assault of the Con Media
For weeks Bill Morneau has been under an all out assault by the Cons and the Con media.For having made a couple of rookie political mistakes, the decent Morneau has…
Brexit or Trump. Whose Voters Were the Stupidest?
Ask Michael Bloomberg
Desperation anyone? The clock runs out on Brian Jean’s campaign to lead the UCP
PHOTOS: UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean, with loyal MLAs Leela Aheer, Glenn van Dijken and Todd Loewen, in front of Premier Rachel Notley’s constituency office yesterday. (Screenshot of Jean Campaign…
‘SFH Kinda Suck’ is out!
Me and Simon of Ugly Pop picked ‘em up at Precision Pressing this afternoon – and they look great! Coloured vinyl too! You can get yours over at Ugly Pop’s…
B.C. Bungled Grizzly Bear Management: Auditor General
A muddled mess of plans that were never implemented, unclear accountability, lack of organized monitoring and spotty oversight has been at the root of the provincial government’s management of grizzly…