Every Now and Then Justin Comes Through
A pleasant surprise from prime minister Justin Trudeau – he pissed off the gangster/president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte. Good one, Justin. Trudeau said he told Duterte about the need…
2017
Two Creepy Cops, Same Day
Look who is gracing the CBC web site this morning. Why it’s those two creepy cops, Harper’s own Julian Fantino and Toronto Police stalwart, James “Give’em the full clip” Forcillo.…
BREAKING: neo-Nazi rag charged with promoting hate against women and Jews
BREAKING: James Sears and Leroy St. Germaine, the editor and publisher of the racist, homophobic, misogynistic, anti-Semitic rag Your Ward News, have been criminally charged – finally – for promoting…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #26
In library school, you learn that the most important part of the reference transaction, or reference interview, is asking questions. Customers, it seems, rarely know how to describe what they…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dani Rodrik writes that politicians looking to provide an alternative to toxic populism will need to offer some other challenge to a system…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 15, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
It’s Time to Think Hard About our Waste Systems
Modern capitalism encourages consumption at levels previously unimaginable which has led to an inconvenient byproduct: the globalization of waste. High levels of consumption means more waste in our system, and…
Making Sure The Sacrifice Is Worth It
As Justin Trudeau prepares to announce Canada’s new definition of peacekeeping, retired general Michael Day asks: “Is peacekeeping worth it?” I’ve always considered that the litmus test for the deployment…
Tory Peaks
This ad is so bad, and so fundamentally weird, you half expect David Lynch to appear on one of the benches, holding an owl and a log.
Justin Trudeau and the Con Media Losers
It's now been more than four days since Justin Trudeau missed a meeting of APEC leaders, and our Con media went ballistic.Claiming he'd sabotaged a trade deal, and that all…
The Indignity to Indigenous.
People struggled for many years with the error attributed to Christopher Columbus in thinking native peoples he found in the Americas were from India. That name stuck for a few…
Evidence says that a merger makes sense: The reasons why together the Alberta Party and the Alberta Liberal Party have the capacity to change Alberta.
“He won because he went to the people. I myself knocked on ~30,000 doors for that election. The team raised $424k, had a volunteer team of ~500 people, and on…
Tzeporah Berman pulls no punches to say what she really thinks about development of Alberta’s Bitumen Sands
PHOTO: Vancouver-based environmental activist Tzeporah Berman, author of a powerful attack on oilsands tailings ponds in Britain’s Guardian newspaper yesterday. Is it possible that the Alberta NDP wishes they’d never…
Counting up the Alberta Party’s leadership candidates, real and imagined, so far: a partial list, no doubt
PHOTOS: Former Morinville mayor Lisa Holmes. Below: Doug Griffiths, Thomas Lukaszuk, Stephen Khan and Chima Nkemdirim. These photos were chosen completely arbitrarily, mainly because they came from the author’s own…
Bannon Gets Buyer’s Remorse
Steve Bannon couldn’t get enough of Alabama Republican Roy Moore. Trump endorsed Moore’s opponent, Luther Strange, for the Republican senate nomination but Bannon went for Moore. When the Moore scandal…
Jewish Defense League vs. Students for Free Discourse and Your Ward News
When Evan Balgord broke the story concerning the flyering of the University of Toronto campus by alt-right members associated with both Ronny Cameron as well as the Facebook group "Students…
RIP Edward Herman, Who Co-Wrote a Book That’s Now More Important Than Ever
Edward Herman, the co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent, has died. He was 92. His work has never been more relevant. Manufacturing Consent was a kind of bible of…
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue ‘warning to humanity’
Image by Steve Johnson More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. It comes 25 years…
Six Simple Ways Canada Can Make Oil-By-Rail Way Safer
In recent months, there’s been a re-emergence of one of the oil industry’s most adored tropes: that without new pipelines, companies will ship oil by rail and threaten entire communities…
Australia becomes 2nd country to pass same sex marriage by popular vote
Results of Aussie vote on equal marriage, courtesy ABC Ireland was the first country in 2015 to pass equal marriage by national popular vote, by a margin of 62% to…