Charles Moore – Civil Rights Photographer
Charles Lee Moore (March 9, 1931 – March 11, 2010) was an American photographer most famous for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps the most famous of his…
January 2018
The Egregious Hypocrisy Of Evangelicals
I often post about evangelicals. Their arrant hypocrisy is something I cannot abide. Another example of that hypocrisy has some people steaming mad: Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday January 24, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. For more information, visit our website at http://www.wiselaw.net. – Garry…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Sheng discusses the role of oversimplified assumptions about economic development in exacerbating wealth and income inequality: The American era has been very…
On The Verge
We live in a complex civilization, writes George Monbiot. And we are on the verge of tearing it apart: Certain western governments are engaged in a frenzy of self-destruction. In…
Walkable Towns are Economically More Productive
Any visitor to a North American city knows that a lot of the geography is designed for single occupant car-based transportation. Anybody who’s spent months in any of these places…
Professor Kinsella, I presume
I am heading to Calgary tomorrow – to start teaching at my alma mater, the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. I am going to be teaching communications to second…
Did Ezra Levant’s Ghastly Rebel Trigger a Terrorist Act in Britain?
I like to mock Ezra Levant and his ratty rag The Rebel.As I did yesterday.But of course the man is not a joke, or at least not funny, and I…
Political parties are not private.
There was an interesting question raised last week by Toronto Star columnist Susan Delacourt about political parties. She was questioning whether political parties are public or private entities. Before we…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Tick, Tock, We Live By The Clock
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Tick, Tock, We Live By The Clock: Consider this an appendix to my post Tempus Fug’It. Also see my pal Werner at Shagya Blog’s…
Winnipeg Kurdish Solidarity
Winnipeg, Jan. 23, 2018: The local Kurdish community rallied at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in solidarity with Kurds under Turkish attack in Afrin, Syria. Photo: Paul S. Graham…
Kevin J. Johnston: No Credible Evidence
Back on June 3, 2017, a number of anti-Muslim protests occurred in Canadian cities across the country; most of them were dismal failures that attracted substantially more counter-protesters than Islamophobes.…
I Doubt She’ll Be Missed
Tory MP Kellie Leitch is hanging up her spurs and, presumably, her whips and chains also. CBC News reports Leitch will not seek re-election in 2019. A loud wailing and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lounging cats.
It’s Back to the Good Old Days of War Fighting
It’s the White Hats versus the Black Hats again, the good old days before the Berlin Wall came down. It’s the United States and its subordinates (i.e. us, Canada, plus…
Why New Bike Lanes Are Good For Everyone — Yes, Even Drivers
Protected bike lanes are a favourite punching bag for Canada’s pundits and politicians. Lawrence Solomon recently called for Toronto to “ban the bike” in one of his three columns on…
So It’s On. The Trans Pacific Partnership, Sans Trumpland, Is a Done Deal.
The ceremonies are scheduled for March but we’re told the TPP is now a done deal even without the United States. The nagging question is just what’s in it. Canada,…