A woman tweeted this at me last night about Mr. Hehr
People noticed. Good.
January 2018
Replace GDP with Inclusive Development Index
Economic influencers and generally super-rich have occupied Davos, Switzerland this week to discuss how to get wealthier. They also discuss global issues that impact more than just their own wealth.…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday January 25, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information, visit our website at http://www.wiselaw.net. –…
Is There A Fusion Reactor In Our Near-Future?
Because of our intractable and frequently selfish natures, humans look for the fabled deus ex machina to bail us out of our climate-change problems. Rather than alter our profligate habits,…
Gone — But Not Completely
Kellie Leitch has existed — stage right. But, Stephen Maher writes, her constituency is still out there: Pollster Frank Graves, who recently completed a polling project for the Canadian Press…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Larry Elliott writes about the fragility of the political and economic structures which the world’s most privileged people are seeking to entrench…
New column day
Here, on how Carillion’s collapse points out one of the most important failings of Brad Wall’s tenure in office. For further reading…– Plenty of others have also weighed in on…
Oh Browny, so young, so brash, we hardly got time to loath you
and finish the cartoon we were going to do. There’s 45 minutes I’ll never get back.
#MeToo and #PCPO
Patrick Brown is gone. And he had no option. The Ontario PC leader at first emotionally denied the allegations, and said he would fight them in court. A few hours…
Alberta NDP win the Fake Trade War on the Prairies
In one of his final acts as Premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall ended the brief and bizarre fake trade war his government launched against Alberta. The ban on vehicles with…
In a Wide Country by Robert Everett-Green tops Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 21, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Barbara Perry on the Far Right in Canada
Still from Vice Essentials Canada Barbara Perry is co-author of Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right-Wing Extremist Movement in Canada, a three-year study involving interviews with Canadian law enforcement…
The Ontario bombshell
I know these three guys. I admire them. I trust them and their judgment. This says it all. It’s true. . And my weeks-ago prediction that the #MeToo movement would…
In a Wide Country by Robert Everett-Green tops Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List this Week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 21, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Free your vote 2.0
Guest blog by Paul George “Your input will help shape the future of our democracy,” declares a November 17 BC government press release. The release announces the BC government has…
How Canada is Driving Its Endangered Species to the Brink of Extinction
Canadian governments are sitting by and watching as endangered species disappear, in what one environmental lawyer calls a “slow moving catastrophe.” The latest blow comes as a deadline for provinces…
What Does a ‘[C-Note’ Have To Do With Trump? More Than You Might Imagine.
There it is, the US hundred dollar bill, the Franklin, the largest bill currently in circulation. It features the visage of America’s highly revered Ben Franklin. One of America’s legendary…
Earthgauge News – Jan. 15, 2018
Edition #8 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of Jan. 15, 2018. A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join…
The Pitfalls of Short-Circuited Project Reviews
Mark Winfield is professor of environmental studies at York University and co-chair of the university’s Sustainable Energy Initiative. This piece originally appeared on Policy Options. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight…