Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2017-09-13 16:33:00
El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis By Don Winslow Aug 9, 2016 23.6k If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic…
2017
Every President Gets ‘Em.
Here’s some food for thought in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. During his two terms in office, George w. Bush issued more than 420 disaster declarations for severe…
You Can’t Make This Up. The Land of Netanyahu.
Bibi and Uday I just went to the web site of the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. There’s some brouhaha about supposedly anti-Semitic cartoon posted on social media by Benjamin Netanyahu’s son,…
Some comments on the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario’s minimum wage commentary
The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO)—an independent, arm’s length, non-partisan research institute—released a paper on September 12th outlining the likely economic impacts flowing from the pending minimum wage increase…
David Asks the Really Awkward Question
While our prime minister fantasizes that we’re still in the 1980s, David Suzuki poses the RAQ, the Really Awkward Question – how do we square Trudeau’s pursuit of perpetual exponential…
Cathy Chats While Justin Mumbles
Poor Justin. He wants to do the Fossil Fuelers bidding, he really does. Whether it’s walking away from his election promise to clean house at the National Energy Board or…
It’s great to be known only for something you did when you were 16
@HotNasties goes to NUMBER FOUR ON THE CHARTS! In, um, Argentina. pic.twitter.com/FkvmXGm1U5 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 13, 2017
Ontario Minimum Wage Increase A Good Idea
(Businesses Across Ontario Are Being Too Penny Wise With The Proposed Wage Increase) Scary clowns are a big hit these days at the box office, and while the people of…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday September 13, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. The first same-sex marriage in Ontario occurred on January 14,…
Why were Muslim-hating bigots allowed into Ford Fest?
From Vice: Jennifer Bush is the Muslim-hating racist who tried to attacked Jagmeet Singh a few days ago – and spectacularly failed. She made him leader of the NDP, basically.…
Melanie Joly Watch: Canada’s worst cabinet minister gets reviewed
And not by me, either. Below is what average folks are saying about the minister with the reverse Midas touch, and the unmitigated mess she made of Canada 150. It…
Rape at universities: One program is proven to reduce it
The Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act (EAAA) Sexual Assault Resistance program, developed by Charlene Senn, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Windsor, empowers women students at universities to defender…
Slouching Toward A City Near You
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?– W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming The man pictured above is Nick Shcherban, a Toronto resident…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Steverman examines the unfairness of the U.S.’ tax system – which, like Canada’s, offers gratuitous giveaways to wealthy investors which force workers…
Capitalism Will End, Celebrate What Comes Next
The damage that wealthy bankers did to the economy back in 2007/08 is still with us, and that has led to a whole generation questioning the validity of modern hyper-capitalism.…
How To Save Your Soul In Trump’s Hell
Ever since Donald Trump became president, the resistance to him and his deranged regime has been loud and proud.And deeply personal. But Trump has now been president for seven months…
Capitalism and Climate Change
In today’s Guardian, George Monbiot writes that capitalism — and, most particularly, neo-liberal capitalism — cannot solve the problem of climate change. It can only exacerbate it: As Milton Friedman,…
The water of life.
A handful of snow melting on a peak in the Rockies can become part of a torrent by the time it reaches the ocean. It is the water of life…
The Cons and the Big Fake Tax Scandal
Michael de Adder is one of my favourite Canadian cartoonists, a guy I admire a lot even if I don't always agree with his political views.But sadly this cartoon is…
Paul Hinman’s narrow by-election win in 2009 had a big impact on Alberta politics
Former Wildrose Alliance Party leader Paul Hinman staged an odd and brief reappearance on Alberta’s political stage this week when he announced his plans to run for the leadership of…