Last Seat on Conservative Clown Car – Going, Going, Gone?
CBC News reports that Kevin O’Leary is telling his rich Tory pals in Florida that he’s in. He will run for the Conservative leadership. Apparently O’Leary, probably bronzed and waxed,…
2017
This week’s column: war rooming the Unpresident
The diplomat didn’t hesitate. “Set up a war room, now,” he said, tapping the table for emphasis. “It’s useless writing memos trying to guess what this guy will do next.…
Climate Change for Bloated Orange Dummies, by Barack Obama
Barack Obama has penned a parting missive for his successor, Donny Trump. It comes in the form of a paper now published in the journal Science entitled, “The irreversible momentum…
Jan. 9: The One-Liner as political programme.
Just a brief look at New Brunswick’s propaganda sheet. The commentary page has a column to tell us that we don’t have a climate problem. The writer says it’s not…
Cabinet shuffle: open thread
Here’s what Canadian Press says: OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to give his year-old cabinet a facelift on Tuesday. Sources tell The Canadian Press that the shuffle…
Trudeau’s Pipeline May Get to Tidewater. His Legitimacy Won’t.
Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have some things in common. They both garnered a lot of votes on the strength of outright lies. For Trudeau, nowhere is that more apparent…
Turning the White House Into a Family Business
Perhaps the Great Orange Bloat was pissed off at the warning fired his way by Barack Obama but Donald Trump has decided to appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as senior…
The Great Void
Think of it as the span between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the purported election of Donald Trump to the American presidency. Andrew Bacevich writes it was an…
For a Decade It was Harper Horror
Now, it may be Trump’s turn to make everything worse. I’m not planning on blogging about Trump very much, however. The man gets far too much attention, and that’s one…
Courage and Cowardice In The Age of Fear
If you want to keep the plebs in line, nothing works as well as a double-serving of fear. Fear is the weapon of choice of every despot throughout history. The…
The Power of Deep Organizing
Photo by Kheel Center The profound defeat of the U.S. labour movement over the past three to four decades is usually measured by the loss of things that workers once…
Straight Out of The Fossil Fueler Playbook – Let’s Socialize the Environmental Damage
When Big Fossil has squeezed out the last bit of profit, they often just leave the taxpayer holding the bag for the clean up. The treasure is shifted out of…
NAFTA: Suddenly, Everything’s on the Table
For years, we’ve been told the dictates of globalization, and the intrusive and prescriptive terms of free trade agreements in particular, are immutable, natural, and unquestionable. (Read more…)When workers were…
Toronto-Danforth Liberals are very, very unhappy
Perhaps someone else would’ve been better, eh? From Abbas in today’s Hill Times: Several members of the federal Toronto-Danforth Liberal riding association executive are threatening to resign or won’t seek…
How To Think, Not What To Think
I have been retired from teaching for 10 years now, and I can say that since departing, I have not missed the classroom for a single day. I say this…
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 9, 2017 at 7:08am PST –…
A shout-out to a political local friend.
I wanted to take this time to congratulate a local Brantford Liberal and friend of mine – Donna Nelson. She’s the current President of the local Brantford-Brant Women’s Club, but…
O’Leary
Kevin O’Leary is muttering about entering the Conservative leadership race. Lisa Raitt is trying to head him off at the pass. She’ll do us all a favour if she succeeds.…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 9, 2017
Here are this week’s leading legal news stories from Wise Law on Twitter Legal system not doing enough for racialized members – Toronto Star Why Short-Sightedness May Cost Marijuana Dispensaries…