gRSShopper in a Box
My pre-conference workshop for Online Educa Berlin has been announced and this seems as good an occasion as any to summarize what I’ve been up to lately. Over the last…
2017
Huge PCPO pickup
Wow. Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown is poised to get a star candidate for next year’s election – Caroline Mulroney. Mulroney, whose father Brian Mulroney was prime minister from 1984…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Angella MacEwen offers her suggestions as to what a fair and progressive trade agenda should look like: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms are…
The Wild.
A very yellow house, sitting high on the hill. In the middle of the wild. I tend to the wild enough most years so that it does not reach out…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday August 2, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. In difficult custody cases, a Court may request that the…
Alberta’s Carbon Tax Brings Cash to Great Programs
The Canadian province of Alberta is best known for the tar sands and the damage extraction of the bitumen has done to the planet. The province is now aware that…
Affirmative action – yesterday, today and tomorrow
The white supremacist who is running the Disunited States of America wants to abolish affirmative action. No surprise there. It is a surprise, however, when I sometimes hear this from…
Is It Time For A Turban?
NDP leadership candidate Jagmeet Singh is generating a lot of press and — if reports are to be believed — a lot of financial support. But, Tim Harper writes, party…
The Cabal.
Writers search every day for the right words to describe the calamity in the American White House. You can hardly call it an administration. Though there is a school of…
Why Donald Trump Will Almost Certainly End Up Resigning
Donald Trump has been at General John Kelly's School for Bullies and Blowhards for two days now, and it does seem to be restraining his worst instincts.He hasn't had a…
Groovy! It’s the Summer of Love for the UCP! Should the NDP despair? Not really
PHOTOS: Cool, man, it’s the Summer of Love! Alberta’s conservatives, grooving to the beat of the Jason Kenney Experience, say: Tune in, turn on, and (if you’re a progressive voter)…
What You Need to Know About the B.C. Utilities Commission and the Site C Dam
Until 11:13 on Monday morning, the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) had a website that was as much of a snoozer as its name. It had tiny lines of text and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Outbound cats.
Follow the Law or the Law will Follow You
Taser torturing a teen for what purpose?
Five Ways Alberta Can Raise the Bar on Methane Regulations
Environmental organizations, labour groups and technology companies are calling on Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to take decisive action on methane emissions from oil and gas activities. Methane is a particularly…
CBC makes some smart moves
Full disclosure: I hadn’t watched The National in a long time. It was just, well, boring. Sorry, Peter et al. These changes at The National are therefore smart – and…
US Occupation of Venezuela Has Already Begun and Is Being Conducted by ExxonMobil
Image from Public Domain Exxon wants to topple Venezuela for geopolitical and geo-economic reasons ExxonMobil awarded contracts to Guyana for infrastructure, drilling and storage with a view to extracting the…
Momentum is getting ready to help Labour win the next election – and beyond
Photo by New Statesman Disparaged and smeared for almost two years, Momentum came out fighting during the general election campaign, spurred on by a sense of idealism which ended up…
Ontario long-term care staffing falls far short of other provinces
CUPE is campaigning for a legislated minimum average of four worked hours of nursing and personal care per resident per day in long-term care (LTC) facilities. New research indicates that…