Amazing! The newest addition to the Supreme Court of Canada will be Sheilah Martin. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday morning his nomination of Martin to fill the seat on…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Doug Henwood interviews Brooke Harrington about the role of offshoring in hiding and concentrating wealth: (W)hat does it say about the state of…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 29, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
In my last post, I talked about how we can easily move from being caregiver to being perceived by medical professionals as ‘a family from hell’. This breakdown of relationships…
Robert Kuttner has an interesting op-ed in this morning’s New York Times. Trumpworld, he writes, is controlled by what are euphemistically called “financial engineers:” This is an administration run by…
Highways are loved in America due to their ability to allow single occupant vehicles to move uninterrupted, thus they crisscross the entirety of the United States. This makes for a…
The beleaguered Bill Morneau continues in his refusal to answer questions about whether he sold a whack of shares in his company, Morneau Shappell, before the government introduced changes to…
When I heard that Justin Trudeau was going to deliver an apology to LGBT Canadians I arranged to get the day off.I wanted to watch all the speeches, and hear…
On November 17, the working group of the Alberta Alternative Budget (AAB) sponsored a one-day workshop at the University of Alberta. The event’s main purpose was to discuss recent developments…
Any war room veteran will tell you: no one is too big to fall. With the right evidence, delivered at the right time and in the right way to the…
The magazine style “policy platform” handed out to the Ontario Conservative elite at their get-together last weekend is a style of political literature that was developed many years ago. The…
PHOTOS: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci at yesterday’s news conference in Edmonton (Photo: Government of Alberta). Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, her former chief of Staff, Brian Topp, and former…
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With a niqab ban, anti-immigrant rallies and now a gun registry protest, the next thing you know Quebecers will start wearing cowboy hats and demanding that the rest of us…
Cowering cats.
Canada is a signatory to nearly a dozen international legal instruments upholding human dignity and the rights of Indigenous women. But the agreements have yet to influence the current analysis…
Underwater footage shows farmed-salmon processing plants releasing untreated effluent directly into B.C. coastal waters in Campbell River and Tofino. The footage, recorded by photographer and filmmaker Tavish Campbell, shows the…
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has defended the gutting of top US State Department diplomats and staffers. His explanation – they’re no longer needed, the Trump administration is on the…
Clouds, 1969 Clouds, front cover Listening to Clouds was a strange experience for me: I didn’t know the album! I know every note of every album Joni has recorded since…
Vancouver Park Board Media Advisory November 28, 2017 The Bright Nights Christmas Train is on track for another holiday season. This year the train—a holiday tradition for many families in…
