Year-Long Wait for Site C Dam Budget Docs ‘Disturbing’: Expert
Are you curious to know the results of our Freedom of Information request for an updated budget and timeline for the $8.8 billion Site C dam project on B.C.’s Peace…
2017
NDP must name & shame or catch the blame – Don’t let Libs off hook for disastrous record
Former BC Liberal Premiers Christy Clark (Kris Krug/Flickr) and Gordon Campbell (Province of BC/Flickr) One of the biggest mistakes Barack Obama made was not doing more to expose George W.…
Don’t look now
…but there is at least one police force in Ontario fighting hate. Well done, Peel.
Say It Again, Jared. This Time With Meaning.
Most media accounts will give you the impression Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee for two hours today, asserting that neither he nor anyone else involved…
George Orwell, Why Did We Ever Doubt Him, or, Remember When We Thought "1984" Was a Novel?
Foreign Policy’s Thomas Ricks writes that the doubters were wrong and Orwell’s mistake was he got the year wrong. Harold Bloom wrote in 1987 that Orwell’s great novel of totalitarianism,…
Obituary for An Imperfect Democracy. America Down.
The Gullibillies thought he was going to make America great again and he will, just not for them. Six months of Donald Trump has shown that the imperial president does…
What WestJet says it’s like here in Regina
Um, off by about six months, folks
Do You Think Trump’s Mad? Do You Think Trudeau’s Sane?
We’re just a couple of weeks off from World Overshoot Day, 2017. That will mark the day on which humankind has exhausted an entire year’s supply of Earth’s natural resources.…
Relief for Climate Anxiety
EFT, also called Tapping, is a great mind/body tool that’s been shown to alleviate stress and change stuck emotional patterns in our nervous system. In this video, Christine Penner Polle,…
Faulty Math on Climate Change, Yikes.
The battle with climate change comes down to numbers. Countries joining the fight usually pledge to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by some percentage of what they were at some…
Will Elon Musk Turn Tesla into a Worker Co-op?
As we pivot to a new world of economic equality, we’re looking at the Universal Basic Income as a means of bringing us towards that very Star Trek place of…
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of July 24, 2017
Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
Whose Sovereignty Is It, Anyway?
He’s loved of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes.-Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 3 For a long time I have found little to fault in Justin…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 24, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: OJ Simpson faces good chance at parole in Nevada robbery Former House…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board calls for Canada to take its poor ranking among other developed countries as a prod to action in building…
A Solar Solution on Indian Railways
The largest railway system in the world runs in India and it consumes a lot of energy to run it. Back when oil was more expensive they started looking into…
The Return To Salem
A large portion of Donald Trump’s supporters, Chris Hedges writes, are Christian fascists. The data suggests that 81 percent of white evangelicals support him. And he has been delivering for…
This week’s column: when abroad, behave
Dear Famous Canadians: Canadians behaving badly in the United States: you could practically write a book about the subject, couldn’t you? On the Right side of the spectrum, there was…
A Reminder That ‘Science’ Can Be Bad As Well As Good …
Science should just be science, but unfortunately, a LOT of it is funded by different special interest groups. How are we supposed to know when we’re being informed proactively versus…
John Ibbitson’s Obscene Ode to Andrew Scheer
I realize that the Globe writer John Ibbitson has written some rotten columns before, most of them in praise of Stephen Harper.And I realize he works for a newspaper that…