Sights in Hawai’i
Last month I went with Jeri to Hawaii for a long-planned, pre-booked vacation. I wouldn’t have intentionally gone to Trump America, it just worked out that way. I had planned…
2017
The void loves you
The caption is perfect if you imagine it being narrated by Werner Herzog. Herzog continues to read: “The orange sky, like the creeping shadows that threaten to engulf our fictional…
Now that he can’t be Mr. Congeniality any more, is Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall eyeing the exit?
PHOTOS: I’m sick of this shifty eyed shot of Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall too, but it’s the only decent royalty free photo of the guy I can find. Below top…
Calling all cyber-detectives: your Ontario political mission, if you choose to accept it
It could be disgruntled Liberals, sure. It could be a certain ambitious cabinet minister, aided and abetted by a lobby firm and trade association he is connected to. It could…
Why Most Young People Can’t Buy a Home in Vancouver
Did you know that if you sell a house in Vancouver, if it’s your primary residence, you pay no tax on the profit? The lack of any capital gains tax…
Just A Couple Of Questions
Given that I have no background in economics, I will leave it to more finely-tuned minds to debate the merits of yesterday’s federal budget. However, there are a couple of…
DINING WITH DYSPHAGIA – FREE COOKBOOK!
I receive lots of requests to post about care-related projects, companies or products. Sometimes a request comes in that I just LOVE and this is one of those. Dining With…
What You Can do Now to Mitigate Climate Change
You probably feel overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite ways that climate change alters the planet and your life. Thankfully, you don’t need to sit ideally by and watch the world…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law Toronto for Thursday March 23, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Ontario strictly requires that a Will be signed…
A Small, Cautious Budget
Kevin Page writes that yesterday’s budget was not a history making event: From a fiscal vantage point, Budget 2017 was a very small event. There’s about $6 billion in new…
This makes me sad
It perhaps explains Donald Trump, Kellie Leitch et al. It also can’t be dismissed as a methodological error – the question(s) were very straightforward. Mostly, however, it makes me sad.…
Kenney is running on ‘Empty.’
The new and unsurprising leader of the Alberta Conservatives is taking a trip to nowhere. He tells Albertans he is there to unite the right but there are two rights…
Rona Ambrose, the Budget, and the Scandalous Cons
I almost felt sorry for Rona Ambrose yesterday, as she tried to say something intelligent about the Liberal's new budget. Only to fail miserably.And end up looking, once again, like…
Nuala: A Fable, by Alberta author Kimmy Beach, tops Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended March 19, 2017, compiled on March 21, 2017, by Audreys Books…
Will Alberta revert to Social Credit?
In August, 1971, Alberta had its quiet revolution. For 36 years it had been governed by Social Credit, a largely rural-based, social-conservative party led for most of those years by…
What will it take to get Canada’s Arctic off diesel?
The planned Innavik Hydro Electric Project will provide clean energy and propel the indigenous Inukjuak community in Northern Quebec off its dependency on dirty diesel energy. But the project faces…
Alberta author and publisher top list of Edmonton’s bestselling books
An Alberta author and publisher top this week’s list of bestselling books. Ranking first in the fiction category is Nuala: A Fable, written by award winning Red Deer poet and…
CNN says “breaking news” too often. But this really was breaking news.
This renders it a conspiracy, in other words. Much easier to prosecute. #USPolitics #Trumprussia https://t.co/hl8Hr1jd4o — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 23, 2017 BREAKING – US officials: Info suggests Trump associates…
Identifying Ecologically and Biologically Significant Marine Areas – a red herring?
Thursday, March 23, 2017 Baynes Sound and Lambert Channel – the marine area between Vancouver Island, Denman Island and Hornby Island – has been identified as an Ecologically and Biologically…
O Inglorious Justin: Bad Bit In New Budget!!!
The Liberals are killing the public transit tax credit. #Budget2017 pic.twitter.com/83OcClkwFU — Andrew Scheer (@andrewscheer) March 22, 2017 This one is a personal kick in the nads for both the…