How to Maximize Misery
Many people strive for happiness and think it’s the end goal of life – pro tip: it isn’t. We’ve looked at happiness quite a few times and if there’s anything…
2017
Trump Wants A War
That is Thomas Homer-Dixon’s opinion. Trump wants a war because he believes he cannot let the Russia investigation continue. He needs an excuse to fire Robert Mueller: Mr. Trump desperately…
Duking it out over hydrogen power.
Smart politicians stay out of arguments over technology. This was the point we were trying to make in our June 20 comments on the multi-billion-dollar plan to electrify Ontario’s Toronto-area…
Will Donald Trump Be The One Who Finishes Off Kellie Leitch?
As we all know, Kellie Leitch tried her best during the Con leadership race to make us believe that she was Canada's Donald or Donalda Trump.Denouncing the One-Percent even though…
Guest Post: Whither Alberta’s NDP in the face of extreme, desperate, chaotic right and resurgent ‘centre’?
PHOTOS: Contingents from the Centre Right, the Far Right and the Further Right mix it up in the Alberta Legislature’s commissary. Actual Alberta conservatives may not appear exactly as illustrated.…
Your Ward News Hate Rag Update
Well, this happened today: Because providing personal information to someone (Sears) with a history of engaging in harassment and who has close connections with neo-Nazi and their supporters can't be…
Chris Hedges – America Is a Tinderbox
Have we already lost? Chris Hedges claims we’ve become hostages to our fears, unable any longer to grasp reality.
No Sure Plans, Funding for $51 Billion Cleanup and Rehabilitation of Oilsands Tailings Ponds
The future of Alberta’s sprawling tailings ponds is in serious crisis. As of right now, there is no clear understanding if or how oilsands companies are going to clean up…
June 28: Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-sniper-shot-iraq-1.4179825 Justin Trudea says that killing a person at 3.5 kilometres is something all Canadians should celebrate. Anyway, the victim was an ISIS extremist. At 3.5 kilometres, the sniper could…
Saving Print Journalism – a Humble Proposal
I want print journalism in Canada to survive. I want it to flourish. I want papers like the Victoria Times Colonist popping up in cities across the country. The Tyee’s…
Alberta’s Urban Time Bombs – Reaping the Whirlwind
There are some 1,500 abandoned oil and gas wells in urban areas of Alberta. One in ten is leaking methane at dangerous levels. The Tyee’s energy scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, got…
The day Trump handed power to China
Full story here. Snippet: These investors, trade experts and government officials are still stunned by an event that got next to no attention in the U.S. but was an earthquake…
A Great Liar Who Lies Without Inhibitions
“was a great liar, a very talented actor who lied without inhibitions; a man capable of self-suggestion, from which he would build his willpower – the most dangerous combination you…
How Desperate is Trump to Cover His Tracks? Would He Resort to War for a Smokescreen?
Here’s the theory. The Russia investigation begins to close in on Donald Trump. Congressional Republicans seeking to save their own skins abandon their president. A desperate, authoritarian president throws his…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Colin Gordon discusses how contempt for democracy is one of the uniting principles of the right around the globe while reviewing Nancy MacLean’s…
A Man After My Own Heart
“A man walks into a pub…” – the opening line of countless jokes. Only this time it was 53-year old Simon Smith of Reading, England and he’d just been hit…
The Sheer Numbers Are Devastating
I try to recycle every scrap of plastic that I can. I’ve kept vaguely current on the state of plastics in our oceans and along our coasts. Still I was…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday June 28, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. Ontario’s Family Law Act (FLA) governs the equalization and division…