(Nearly) One Year at American University
Hello, For those of you have kept up with these blog posts you may have noticed there has…not been a lot to keep up with lately. That’s because over the…
2017
We’re In Impeachment Territory
Most right-thinking individuals (i.e., not Trump acolytes) would, I suspect, agree with David Gergen here. Recommend this Post
Spinnaker
A thoughtful piece I found on Facebook. Let me tell you about a dolphin. Spinnaker (or “Spin” as he was sometimes known) was a dolphin that was kept at Vancouver…
Labour party’s plan to nationalise mail, rail and energy firms
Photo by Chatham House Jeremy Corbyn will lay out plans to take parts of Britain’s energy industry back into public ownership alongside the railways and the Royal Mail in a…
Major decisions face Québec solidaire at its forthcoming congress
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois • Photo by People’s Social Forum Quebec’s broad party of the left, Québec solidaire (QS), will open a four-day congress on May 19 in Montréal — the 12th…
So my eyes and brain hurt. Tell me why I do this, again?
The other cartoons I put up at LondOntLife were done quickly and briskly on my iPad2 air. The Peanuts parody was another beast all together and took a good day…
To Americans He’s Pompous. To Russia, He’s a Giggle.
To Russians, high and low, America’s new president is a laughingstock. U.S. democracy may be facing one of its toughest challenges in hundreds of years, but for Russia, this is…
NAFTA and Labour Rights
I recently spoke at the Standing Committee on International Trade on their study “Priorities of Canadian Stakeholders having an interest in Bilateral and Trilateral trade in North America, between Canada,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Binyamin Appelbaum highlights the strong consensus view that Donald Trump’s planned tax giveaways to the rich will do nothing for overall economic development.…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday May 24, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. Where all matrimonial issues have been resolved as at the…
Eating up the Hill: Sliders with SLOAN in the East Block Courtyard
All of a sudden the weather is nicer in Ottawa, so on Tuesday evening I popped over to the East Block Courtyard for the Society of Composers, Authors and Music…
No One Is Safe
Donald Trump won enough votes in the Electoral College to become president. His voters — in a blind fury — made him the most powerful man in the world. Now…
Smog Free Bike Cleans the Air While You Ride
Daan Roosegaarde designed another piece for his Smog Free Project and it’s a bicycle that cleans the air as you ride through the city. The handlebars contain a filtration system…
The poster boy and the NDP.
Charlie Angus meet Jagmeet Singh. No doubt Charlie Angus MP, candidate for the New Democratic Party leadership has met Jagmeet Singh MPP, the newest candidate for the NDP leadership, before,…
Independent Caucus’s for the Senate
The Senate has just voted for a major shake-up of how members of the Red Chamber align themselves by allowing nine or more members to form a caucus, a substantial…
HuffPo wanted that thing I did on Trudeau, Bernier and Singh
So here it is.
Donald Trump and the Revenge of James Comey
When Donald Trump fired or "terminated" James Comey so soon after blowing him a gangster kiss, hissing in his ear, and seeming to threaten him: He must have thought he…
This Is What Our World Looks Like
In Washington, Kurds protested the arrival of Turkish strongman, Recep Erdogan. As they have in the past, Erdogan’s bodyguards, neatly dressed in suits, waded into the protesters and the capital…
Rachel Notley’s tough talk on pipelines evokes the Peter Lougheed Era of energy policy confrontation
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley at yesterday’s news conference in Edmonton. (Photo: Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta) Below: Earth scientist David Hughes (Post Carbon Institute photo), B.C. Premier Christy Clark…
Edmonton Election Update: School Board Trustees Now Included.
We are now five months away from the October 2017 municipal elections in Edmonton. Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running in Edmonton’s municipal…