Well, He Does Know a Thing or Two About Divorce.
Is the marriage over? For longer than I’ve drawn breath, Europe and America have been intertwined in a relationship that blossomed into a marriage in the aftermath of WWII. Now,…
2017
The View From the Tanks
Think tanks are a wonderful and often overlooked source of garnering perspective on world events. Some, such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute or our own Fraser Institute…
Revealed: Inside the B.C. Government’s Site C Spin Machine
BC Hydro officials and members of Premier Christy Clark and Energy Minister Bill Bennett’s offices were all involved in a coordinated attempt to discredit DeSmog Canada’s reporting on the $8.8…
Toxic Tsunami
An abandoned car amidst the ruins of the village • Photo by Senado Federal A year and counting of mud and struggle since Latin America’s worst mining disaster. Judith Marshall…
Simon Says
I don’t want anyone to miss Montreal Simon’s great take on what some consider the Twilight Zone’s scariest and most memorable episode, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Simon really nailed it,…
Copping to the ‘copter
So, The Lobby Monitor asked me about the Aga Khan, helicopter, lobbying, blah blah blah. Here’s my response. The sponsor is almost always a lobbyist. CIJA, for example, sponsors a…
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2017 / SALON DU LIVRE ANARCHISTE DE MONTRÉAL 2017
Mark your calendars … MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2017 Préparez vos calendriers… LE SALON DU LIVRE ANARCHISTE DE MONTRÉAL 2017
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right
The latest from Kersplebedeb Publishing, Ctrl-Alt-Delete addresses the origins and rise of the so-called “alt-right,” the fascistic movement that grabbed headlines in the months leading up to the 2016 election…
An Inauspicious Start
Whether he lasts a full term in office, Donald Trump is sure to provide no end of firsts in the presidential history books. Here’s one. He will become the first…
Top 10 Legal Headlines
Here are your Top 10 legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter last week. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jan 16, 2017 at 8:03am PST –…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tom Parkin points out that neither austerity nor isolationism offers any real solution to improve Canada’s fiscal and economic standing. And Rob Carrick…
Keyboard warriors!
Maybe it’s because I am getting a bit older and my skin is thinning somewhat, but more and more, I am getting annoyed with these Keyboard Warriors© who like to…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 16, 2017
Here are this week’s leading legal news stories from Wise Law on Twitter Judge shortage forcing Ottawa courts to prioritize criminal trials over civil cases – Ottawa – CBC News…
Use of Coal Power to Shrink Regardless of Politics
Coal producers can’t keep up. Coal used to be the cheapest form of energy, but that was before cheap renewable technology and more efficient gas plants came along. What’s more…
Sabotaging The Economy
American stock markets have skyrocketed since the election of Donald Trump. The president-elect and giddy investors think they’re on the cusp of Reagan 2.0. But, Ruchir Sharma writes, they can’t…
MLK
It’s his day in the US, today. Coincidences: Started the morning with another great black leader, my friend Chris Spence, who has also been unfairly maligned and targeted by the…
Premier Wynne: Colour her gone.
It seems more and more likely that Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Ontario Liberals are on the slippery side of the slope. Nothing says it more emphatically than the situation…
Ontario politics: if you are seen as out-of-touch, can you get back in-touch?
Ironically, I’m at CBC right now. And that’s where I read this. Other pundits are all but writing Wynne off. “She has lost that credibility with voters and once it’s…