Column: supremely unexpected
Talk about life imitating art. When this writer started typing up what would become the novel Recipe For Hate, several things were not anticipated. Positive reviews, for example: not used…
December 2017
How Alberta’s Clean Energy Transition May Actually Benefit Big Coal and Oil Players Over Small Renewables
Alberta’s plan for the replacement of coal energy with natural gas and renewables was announced in 2015, but still questions as to who will provide the new power remain unanswered.…
No rate shock from cancelling Site C: Head of review panel
Harry Swain leading the Joint Review Panel into Site C (Photo: JRP) At a press conference earlier today, Harry Swain, the head of the Joint Review Panel into Site C…
Dec. 4: The Garbage Press
When I was a child of 12 or so, I got hold of what was called a tabloid. This was a newspaper composed entirely of violence, horribleness – much like…
Men Steal Women’s Due Process
I didn’t think this up, but it’s been gnawing at me for years and many times in recent months with all the sexual predators being outed…with still millions more to…
A Fitting End to a Country Grown Too Old
Remember when North America was called the New World? Well, in some ways, it’s rather old, very old. The United States boasts of being the world’s oldest constitutional democracy and,…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of December 4, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of December 4, 2017. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Billy Knows Best
President Flubber has been floating the idea that the Access Hollywood tape in which he was heard boasting about how his celebrity allowed him to molest beautiful women wasn’t actually…
In the Short Haul
Most Canadians have flown on prop aircraft such as the DeHaviland twin turbos, the Dash-7 or Dash-8. Many have logged a few hours of seat time aboard earlier DH prop…
Will Bizarro Trump Start a War This Week?
You don't have to be a psychiatrist to know that Donald Trump is slowly cracking up. Or a political scientist to know that he has never been so dangerous.Mike Flynn's…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of December 4, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 4, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Spies more free to use cellphone surveillance tech without warrant, under court…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Murray Dobbin writes that corporate power is the greatest threat to our health and well-being – and reminds us that government focused on…
Intersection Design Improved by Using Leaves
Got together with some neighbours and transformed a local intersection with chalk & leaves, revealing a surplus surface area of 2,000 square feet which could be re-designed as a parkette,…
DIANE’S STORY
I am so pleased to share a personal caregiver story from Diane today. Diane’s husband Bob had a devastating stroke and sadly passed away in 2015. Diane shares her wisdom…
Quebec colonizing continues.
Some of you might be wondering about that silly motion by the Quebec National Assembly last week. It was the one suggesting that Montreal merchants stop saying “Bonjour Hi” to…
NDP set to introduce legislation to control ‘Political Action Committees’ today in wake of Liberal private member’s bill
PHOTOS: Liberal Leader David Khan, left, and former leader and sole MLA David Swann in front of the Alberta Legislature last week. Below: NDP Labour and Democratic Renewal Minister Christina…
Ronny Cameron Continues Down The White Nationalist Path
On November 30, 2017, Ronny Cameron was shocked! Shocked I say! Shocked and, in fact, disgusted! So disgusted that he HAD to record the incident and then share it with…
Who’s the Real Enemy?
“You’re either with us or against us.” — Benito Mussolini First the UCP demanded the Premier ignore the rules of the House, then they accused her of being against rural…
A Ford Nation poll, inaccurate 21 times out of 20
Look, I get along well with Doug Ford. I shouldn’t, given that I am a Bolshevik, in comparative terms. But we get along. So. There’s this poll that mysteriously appeared…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 46: Trump loses it.
I swear I didn’t want to write another word about Donald Trump. But some weeks – almost any week, in fact – he’s inescapable. So, with apologies, here we go…