It’s Time to Exorcise Christy Clark’s Corrupt Ways. Call In Father Weaver.
The Globe’s Gary Mason is on the money this time. If it winds up that Christy Clark, either now or in the future, needs the Green Party to prop up…
2017
The Good, The Bad And the Ugly: Where Conservative Leadership Candidates Stand on the Environment
The next leader of the Conservative Party will be chosen on May 27. While only Conservative Party members are eligible to vote in the ranked ballot election, the outcome will…
Rafe: Weaver would be crazy to make pact with Christy; NDP should have nailed Libs on economy, LNG
The three BC leaders at the televised debate (Photo: Broadcast Consortium) It’s May 10, 2017 as I write this, an appropriate date to examine the election, being the anniversary of…
Lessons from Dead Roosevelts
If you’re looking for something to rehabilitate your faith in democracy you might check out Ken Burns’ 7-part documentary, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.” I’ve always found Theodore Roosevelt fascinating,…
Think of It as Unintended Consequences
We tossed the Taliban and Afghanistan turned into one giant opium poppy field, providing the lion’s share of the planet’s illegal opium/heroin production. Sixteen years later, Afghanistan’s opium industry is…
What Will They Call It Next?
How about “The Park formerly known as Glacier National Park“? GNP got its name for the 150 glaciers that it featured. Out of that 150, 124 are now gone. The…
What Is to Be Done in Venezuela?
Photo from Public Domain The news from Venezuela is grim: A “fall in oil prices, soaring interest rates…have intensified an already deep-rooted recession. The country is being pauperized. It has…
High Crimes and Misdemeanours
Richard Nixon famously said, “when the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” Of course Milhous was saying that to David Frost, long after he had resigned the presidency…
Canada Revenue Agency suspends controversial Harper-era audit of charities
The Canada Revenue Agency has suspended the controversial Harper-era auditing of Canadian charities’ political activities. But some targeted organizations such as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a respected left-leaning…
New column day
Here, examining how Steve Keen’s warning about the UK’s excessive financialization and consumer debt applies even more strongly in Canada. For further reading…– Keen makes reference to the BIS’ international…
Dippers – Sorry to Kick Your Crutch Out From Underneath You, But…
In the wake of Tuesday’s near-miss election for the NDP, Green supporters were quickly made the Dippers’ whipping boy, the sine qua non excuse for their failure. A UBC analysis…
The white working class, back in charge
Lisa and me and several other political folks – a Prime Minister, a Premier, and some impressive cabinet ministers and strategist types – were at a fascinating event in Toronto…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 11, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. If a deceased person owed support to a spouse…
We’ve Heard It All Before
With Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier recently resurrecting the widely discredited and tired trope of a rising tide lifting all boats, Star reader Salmon Lee of Mississauga offers all of…
Exercising a lot Increases Lifespan
Everybody already knows that exercising is good for your health, this isn’t new. What is new is associating the amount of exercise to telomere length. Telomeres are plentiful in young…
Things Are Starting To Crumble
The wheels are starting to come off the Trumpmobile. Daniel Dale reports in the Toronto Star that, in the wake of FBI Director James Comey’s firing, several revelations have come…
Lying liars who lie
Latest @realDonaldTrump tactic: fire everyone looking for evidence, and then complain that there's no evidence. ##USPolitics #COMEY — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 11, 2017
Taking back our civil rights.
You hate to have to remind our Liberal government in Ottawa that one of the basic tenets of liberalism is human rights. It is as though the cabinet members get…
Alberta authors Linda Phillips and Janice MacDonald top Audreys Books fiction and non-fiction bestsellers lists
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 30, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Pipelines, pipelines, pipelines – An Alberta view of the BC election
British Columbia voters reduced Christy Clark’s BC Liberals to minority status in the provincial election this week. The BC Liberals, who have formed government since 2001, elected candidates in 43…