In early September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced more than $360 million in funding for roads to service mining operations in two remote regions of the Yukon. There’s just one…
This year, The Star has been running an Atkinson Series entitled The New Newsroom, which looks at both the challenges and the possibilities facing journalism in this age of Internet…
From next week’s column. I was particularly proud of the gratuitous Game of Thrones reference, so I leave it here for your elucidation and merriment, gratis: This Benedict Arnold-style strategy…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday October 12, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
I don't know how Justin Trudeau managed to look so cool yesterday, when confronted with the madness of Donald Trump.And the threat that could cost Canadians hundreds of thousands of…
Here, on the growing gap between the Trudeau Libs’ “middle class” messaging and the self-perception of a growing working class in Canada. For further reading…– Ekos’ polling is discussed here,…
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nathaniel Lewis and Matt Bruenig discuss the relationship between massive inheritances and ongoing wealth inequality. Nick Hanauer makes the case for much…
Canadians and Mexicans are wondering whether Donald Trump will tear up NAFTA. The rest of the world is wondering whether Trump will tear up the Iran nuclear deal. Roger Cohen…
Is it religion that we see reflected in the new politics. Maybe it has been there all along. Canadian politics has been slower to wrap itself in vestments but in…
Rafe Mair in Campbell River in 2009, speaking out against GE’s $5 Billion proposed Bute Inlet private power project (Image: Damien Gillis) Few people are lucky enough to work with,…
Has Donald Trump become the White House Captain Queeg?
PHOTO: Your blogger’s lousy iPhone photo of St. Albert’s three mayoral candidates – from left to right, Cam MacKay, Malcolm Parker, and Cathy Heron – on the stage at the…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended October 10, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Belated on my part I should note. Thanksgiving is a holiday that I feel particularly conflicted about. On the one hand the modern sentiment behind it is laudable; expressing gratitude…
PHOTOS: Milton Sussman, Alberta’s new Deputy Minister of Health, as president and CEO of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (Photo: CBC). Below: His controversial predecessor, Carl Amrhein, whose last day…
Great article for urban explorers of all stripes and walkers in general. And Solnit’s book is awesome! “As activist Rebecca Solnit observed in her comprehensive opus Wanderlust: A History of…
Donald Trump has boasted he’s the man to Make America Great Again. Instead he may wind up presiding over America’s decline. Economist Carl Weinberg has told CNBC that China is…
British newspapers are reporting that Donald Trump’s visit to the UK early next year has been downgraded from a state visit to a working visit. That means the Queen won’t…
It’s October 11. In the United States, at least, it’s National Coming Out Day. I know of no such celebration in Canada but we’ve been ahead of the pack inn…
