PHOTOS: Then finance minister Robin Campbell and premier Jim Prentice explain their plan to increase taxes in March 2015. Criticism was mild. Below: Premier Ralph Klein and Stockwell Day, who…
But outside the wealthy minority whose interests he serves, few of the masses who supported his candidacy will find much to laugh about. Go to about the 1:25 minute mark…
Two enforcement orders released by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office detail BC Hydro’s failure to comply with environmental protection rules during construction of the Site C dam. The orders, issued…
Hibernating cats.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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 –…
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 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…
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…
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…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joachim Hubmer, Per Krusell and Anthony A. Smith, Jr. study the causes of wealth inequality in the U.S. and find one clear…
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,…
“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…
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…
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…
