The Private Corporation Tax Loophole and the Ultra Rich
The 2017 Economic and Fiscal Update provides some detailed data (see pp. 51-53) on who will be impacted by the government’s plan to limit how much passive investment income can…
2017
Oct. 25: Let’s Think About Nov. 11 and Our War Dead.
Readers of this column who do not have access to the Brunswick News chain are missing a daily diet of pure idiocy. The latest star of this phenomenon is an…
New Fish Food Doesn’t Require Killing Fish
When fish farms kill their fish for food some of that food is ground up and fed to other fish as nutrient pellets. It’s well known that current fishing practices…
Joly jilts journalism.
Every government for the past 50 years in Canada has wrung its collective hands over the state of Canadian journalism. We have had studies, expert reports, editorials, analyses, speeches and…
Bill Morneau and the Monstrous Assault of the Con Media
For weeks Bill Morneau has been under an all out assault by the Cons and the Con media.For having made a couple of rookie political mistakes, the decent Morneau has…
Brexit or Trump. Whose Voters Were the Stupidest?
Ask Michael Bloomberg
Desperation anyone? The clock runs out on Brian Jean’s campaign to lead the UCP
PHOTOS: UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean, with loyal MLAs Leela Aheer, Glenn van Dijken and Todd Loewen, in front of Premier Rachel Notley’s constituency office yesterday. (Screenshot of Jean Campaign…
‘SFH Kinda Suck’ is out!
Me and Simon of Ugly Pop picked ‘em up at Precision Pressing this afternoon – and they look great! Coloured vinyl too! You can get yours over at Ugly Pop’s…
B.C. Bungled Grizzly Bear Management: Auditor General
A muddled mess of plans that were never implemented, unclear accountability, lack of organized monitoring and spotty oversight has been at the root of the provincial government’s management of grizzly…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Fuzzy cats.
Here’s Why Canadian Cities Struggle to Pay for Public Transit
There’s nothing else like it in Canada. Since the early 1970s, Manitoba’s provincial government has covered a full 50 per cent of the operating costs for Winnipeg’s public transit system.…
Video: The Great Legal Reformation – Mitch Kowalski
Remarks from our friend, Mitch Kowalski, at his book launch for Great Legal Reformation, October 23, 2017 at the Legal Innovation Zone in Toronto: – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Free Market Capitalism on Trial
Neoliberal, free market capitalism, has had a good run since it was ushered in by Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney. There’s been plenty of time to watch it in action and,…
A Succinct Analysis of the Failure of Neoliberal Politics
Most of us know that neoliberalism, ushered in 40 years ago by Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney, has run its course. If you bump into him, please let Justin in on…
Warnings, Warnings, Warnings
It was possibly one of the biggest yawners in recent years when the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that, globally, mankind had about 60 years of soil fertility…
Recipe For Hate is being featured on Apple’s iBooks!
Check it out: Apple is promoting Recipe For Hate on their iBooks web site! My ever-patient Dundurn Press publicist, Kendra, says that Apple has decided to promote pre-orders of the…
A Tale About Buying an Electric Car
There’s no place to buy a used Electric Vehicle in Regina, in 2017. This is a problem. It’s one I don’t have the ability to solve, but it affects me…
Andrew Scheer’s Sad and Disappointing Saguenay Adventure
Oh no. Poor Andrew Scheer must have been so disappointed. I'm sure he had high hopes of winning yesterday's by-election in the Saguenay.Especially after asking the Madonna at Cap Trinité…
I don’t want to be yet another man writing about how #MeToo affects me
I have been resisting #MeToo. I have. For starters, I am generally pretty unenthusiastic about hashtag campaigns. Most of the time, they are just slacktivism – ie., the false belief…
Cats and beasts #12
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