Note To Justin And Rachel
Please explain again why your insistence that we need to build more pipelines is valid, given these facts: A new world record price for electricity set earlier this month signals…
2017
Gimme shelter: is Core Housing Need a useful measure?
For a new CCPA blog post on housing (un)affordability, I dove into the latest Census data for Metro Vancouver. I used two series on shelter cost and shelter-to-income ratio, and…
An open letter to the worst minister in Canada
Dear Minister Joly: May I call you Melanie? You’ve blocked my access to your ministerial Twitter account, so please forgive the formality of an open letter. I sense that I’ve…
EPCOR and The Block’s Big Lie
For all their evils and its wrongs, the Soviets did some things very well: propaganda and disinformation. As one writer commented in the Spectator, “Communist ideology dismissed the idea of…
Has Rex Murphy Finally Left the CBC?
For years I have tried to avoid watching the CBC National on Thursdays so as to avoid the At Issue panel.For it was always a Con clown show under Big…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of November 27, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of November 27, 2017. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 27, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 27, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Justice Department sues to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner; Trump tweets…
New Brantford-Brant LPC EDA Board Elected; Getting ready for 2019.
I don’t comment a lot on local Liberal politics these days, but I will for this occasion. A new Liberal EDA Board was elected here in Brantford-Brant on Sunday November…
The Policies Don’t Change
I’m a lucky man. I have a defined benefit pension. It guarantees me a particular income at retirement. It used to be the standard type of pension. But, in the…
I Swear This is Good for You
An explicative can do way more than just add spice to your sentence, it can improve your life. Emma Byrne argues in her new book that swearing is a social…
Patrick’s pathetic policy pantomime.
It was a come from behind event. Ontario Conservative Party Leader Brown hosted a party event over the weekend. Some of the media had noticed that he had no policies.…
Daveberta Pod Episode 1: Don’t Stop Believin’
The Calgary-Lougheed by-election, the Alberta Party leadership race, a new ThinkHQ poll, Rachel Notley as Canada’s Pipeline Paladin, and changing electoral boundaries are just some of the topics covered in…
Site C – Uncertain costs, ambiguous benefits
Most readers will be familiar with Erik Andersen, an expert commentator about economic matters in BC. This is the original text he submitted to the Vancouver Sun after the newspaper…
Be opinionated, first be informed
In response to my earlier post about crime statistics, a person using the name “Harald” submitted this comment: Try not to forget that the NDP brought casinos to BC, and…
Politics and the Debate Club
I know, I know, you’d rather watch the Grey Cup game, so I’ll make this quick. Yesterday, Ms Soapbox and a friend judged the final round in the Sir Winston…
PizzaGate explained
from RollingStone article Anatomy of a fake news scandal. Never heard Bernie speak until after the US election, saw the debates and thought Hillary cleaned Trump’s clock. Knew Trump was…
The Return of Stuff Happens, weeks 44 & 45: Men behaving badly
This is not a good time to be a male. Every day, we are revealed to be dirtbags. It all began with Harvey Weinstein. Once, this Oscar-winning deal maker was…
Can a single page win an entire election?
If it can – and it might – PC leader Patrick Brown may well have won the 2018 provincial election this weekend. One sheet of paper: seriously. Here it is.…
Why is the US Media and Foreign Policy Establishment Targeting Russia?
The antagonism towards Russia by U.S. mainstream media and foreign policy elites goes far beyond allegations of Russian interference in the last Presidential elections. Paul Jay of the Real News…