Another Sign? I Sure Hope Not.
Something has changed over the past two years. My home is bordered along the back by a row of large cedar trees. When I moved here some 15 years ago…
2017
Precarious Employment and Working Poverty in ‘Post-Crisis’ Greece
In a September post on the Social Europe website, Syriza MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis claimed that Greece is now ‘exiting the crisis.’ To support his claim, he cites data suggesting that…
Rejected Halloween-Themed Cereals
After the success of Count Chocula, Boo-berry and Frankenberry, cereal executives everywhere were on the look out for new Halloween-themed cereals. Alas, these never made it to market, though the…
Using a Blockchain for a Smarter Energy Grid
Blockchain technology stems from Bitcoin and provides a platform for change greater than Bitcoin itself. Researchers in the renewable energy industry have realized that blockchains can be used to replace…
New column day
Here, on the latest confirmation from the Parliamentary Budget Office that a national pharmacare plan would both improve our health and save public money – and the Libs’ and Cons’…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday October 19, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. When a person is married in Ontario, the marriage…
The Foundering Ship Of State: A Followup
Following up on last evening’s post, I am adding the comments of Gyor, who listed several more failures of the Trudeau government thus far: You forgot Trudeau’s attempt to increasingly…
Would you invite a neo-Nazi to your house? (Updated! Happy ending!)
Of course you wouldn’t. But Ontario’s three main political parties did. A committee comprised of all the main parties in the Ontario Legislature have given Canada’s leading white supremacist an…
Celebrating the Day Justin Trudeau Defeated the Harper Cons
It's now been two years to the day since Canadians gave Justin Trudeau a crushing majority. And he sent Stephen Harper packing… And into the garbage can of history. Who…
A Total Screw Up
Surely, no man has screwed up more consistently — and spectacularly — than Donald Trump. Witness has treatment of the family of a dead soldier. Richard Wolfe writes: This week…
Advice You’ve Never Thought Of! Tips for Travelling with an Older Parent
My Mom grew up summering in Kennebunk Port in Maine – all her best memories are of playing in the sand and surf with her brothers and sister there. Now…
Horse Race Journalism and 2019?
It is unlikely that Jaime Watt was talking about Babel-on-the-Bay in a recent op-ed piece. The Conservative political pundit referenced “horse race journalism” as being premature and meaningless in discussing…
The secret costs of the EPCOR deal
Whether or not The Block sell our share of our public electrical utility to the for-profit, Edmonton-based EPCOR, it will still cost taxpayers millions. And I don’t mean just the…
Climate Change – Turns a Calamity into Catastrophe
Even the most affluent nation on Earth can’t escape the knock-on effects of climate change. The Pentagon thinks of it as a “force multiplier.” It magnifies difficulties, makes them more…
Paul Fromm to Speak Before Ontario MPPs
On Thursday, a committee studying Bill 163 (An Act to enact the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, 2017 and to amend the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy…
‘This is All a Lie’ by Edmonton’s Thomas Trofimuk remains atop Audreys Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Oct. 15, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Donald Trump and the Cannibals in Hollywood
A few days ago I wrote about how Donald Trump is counting on the Christian right to help keep him in office, now that almost every other group is abandoning…
It’s Not Just Some Fable Any More.
Thanks, Aesop, the tortoise will take it from here.