ICE AND SNOW PLAN – WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW
Ice and snow conditions persist with more on the way. Here is what the Park Board is doing to ensure public safety: We have closed the seawall from Lions Gate…
2017
Jan.3: Laughing so I won’t cry.
In an idle moment, I called up ‘Trump twitter’ . It’s worth a read because these are the thoughts of a president who has no political philosophy whatever. To him,…
Debating Syria Productively
Photo by Alisdare Hickson The debate over Syria on the Left is toxic. I pulled together 13 points about the situation in Syria I hope can be useful in framing…
Another Nail in the Coffin of Carbon Energy
While Statoil hasn’t fully divested from carbon energy, every little/big drift away from more carbon energy gets us closer to the Post-Carbon Energy Infrastructure! As we pivot to a new,…
Canada Must Provide Collaborative Climate Change Leadership
The world has gotten smaller, more complex, on the whole, wealthier, with citizens having more opportunity to be informed, engaged and collaborative in the Internet Age. This was enabling of…
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 3, 2017 at 8:16am PST –…
Trump-loving neo-Nazis are back – right here
Images from latest issue of the neo-Nazi rag, Your Ward News. Where is Toronto Police? Toronto Council? John Tory? Why haven’t they helped STAMP out this hate? If you want…
The party that’s pulling the Belgian left to the left – POLITICO
The ascendant Workers’ Party has learned to punch above its weight. Source: The party that’s pulling the Belgian left to the left – POLITICO Filed under: Socialism Tagged: Belgium, Far…
Canada Must Provide Collaborative Climate Change Leadership
The world has gotten smaller, more complex, on the whole, wealthier, with citizens having more opportunity to be informed, engaged and collaborative in the Internet Age. This was enabling of…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 3, 2017
Here are this week’s leading legal news stories from Wise Law on Twitter Journalist sued by law firm after writing about family law fee dispute Inmate who died at ‘most…
The Rout Is Almost Complete
Donald Trump is going on his merry way, working hard to entrench a kleptocracy. Chris Hedges writes: He will attempt to unleash a kleptocracy—the word comes from the Greek klépto,…
The Virtue Of Rebellion
“Perhaps in our lifetime we will not succeed. Perhaps things will only get worse. But this does not invalidate our efforts. Rebellion – which is different from revolution because it…
Brown’s beliefs bewilder.
After the Legislature of Ontario rose for the holidays there must have been a press gallery gathering to talk about how to handle PC Leader Patrick Brown. The discussion might…
3.5 million folks say this National Post guy is totally full of crap
Check out this whopper: No one thing killed blogging in Canada. Twitter played a role. Much of the old blogosphere energy now gets expended on Tweets. The structure of the…
The Trump Regime’s first move
…to kill off ethics oversight, and gut democracy. U.S. House Republicans vote to gut independent ethics office against wishes of top GOP leaders WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday voted…
Newfoundland and Nutrition in the 1940s #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Scholarly papers seldom get the attention of the news media. When a paper combines a well-known, emotionally charged issue – aboriginal residential schools – with intimations of racism and unethical…
On Meaning #nlpoli
Brexit supporter and insurance magnate Arron Banks got into a tussle on Twitter late last year with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard. Banks tweeted that Rome had been done in by…
Alberta’s carbon tax: Science is political when it doesn’t suit Wildrose agenda; politics is scientific when it does
PHOTOS: Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips at yesterday’s Edmonton press conference on the imposition Jan. 1 of the NDP Government’s carbon tax. Below: Wildrose Electricity and Renewables Critic Don MacIntyre.…
It was a good Holiday
I had a good New Years and Christmas holidays. A shipping error, in my favour, was perhaps the most notable event. The weather was cold, and it’ll be -25 or…