Trudeau right to comment on jury selection
Neither the Prime Minister nor Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould made a specific comment on whether the Gerald Stanley case was rightly decided. But they did say that the way juries…
February 2018
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Anna Coote discusses some of the potential problems with a universal basic income on its own – particularly to the extent it takes…
How Vertical Farms can Help During Disasters
Supporters of vertical farms envision a future that has skyscraper farms beside work places and residences in urban centres. Their thinking is that by growing food where people are will…
Nothing Has Changed
All three candidates for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party have declared their opposition to a carbon tax. Andrew Coyne writes: When the Great Platform Revolt began, I had…
The NRA Warns the Media: Stop Making Fun of Trump Or Else
Donald Trump's spy chiefs are telling him the Russians are already meddling in the midterm elections. Robert Mueller and his FBI posse could come down on him at any moment.His…
Trudeau right to comment on jury selection
Neither the Prime Minister nor Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould made a specific comment on whether the Gerald Stanley case was rightly decided. But they did say that the way juries…
Patrick Brown, P.I.
Welcome to today’s class in how not to do P.R., folks. Today’s case study is Patrick Brown, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. Three weeks ago, CTV broadcast a…
Ain’t Love Grand?
A little something for you incurable romantics on this most ‘sacred’ of days. H/t Theo Moudakis Happy Valentine’s Day! Recommend this Post
Colten Boushie and the Ghastly Silence of the Cons
It's now been several days since an all-white jury found a white farmer in Saskatchewan not guilty of anything in the killing of Colten Boushie.And since then there have been…
Thoughts on local municipal governance
A popular political theory presents two basic and often contradictory models of how elected officials should (or do) behave as representatives. One is as a delegate: solely acting as a…
Joining the #IMBUSYTOO movement.
What can be more appropriate for Saint Valentine’s Day than to recognize true love. And even if it is not true, it is what passes for true love over in…
Grease the Skids, It’s Looking Stormy
It’s a now familiar pattern for the Trump brigade. At first deny everything, no matter how implausible the denial, and hope that whatever it is dies a natural death. If…
Is just talking about restricting diluted bitumen in pipelines an unconstitutional impediment to trade?
PHOTOS: Some of the Fathers of Confederation looking, well, fatherly. Below: Steely eyed Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, B.C. Premier John Horgan, and would-be premier Jason Kenney. In case you missed…
Son of Conservative MP Earl Dreeshen running for UCP nomination in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake by-election
Photo: Jason Kenney (centre) and Devin Dreeshen (right). (Photo source: Twitter) Facing charges of sexual assault and sexual interference, United Conservative Party MLA Don MacIntyre resigned from his party’s caucus…
Ryan Dean: Sentencing Scheduled for April 16
ARC has learned a bit more about Ryan Dean's conviction for assaulting his former partner as well as the allegations concerning another assault against a woman. Sentencing in the first…
Site C, a Kodak moment
For many years, I worked in the motion picture film laboratory business. One of our profit centres was processing TV News film footage. We had machines in or near TV…
‘Clearing the plains’ continues with the acquittal of Gerald Stanley
Last week’s decision by an all-white jury to acquit Gerald Stanley, the killer of Colten Boushie, a young Indigenous man from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, calls for…
B.C. Makes Big Promises on Environment, Indigenous Rights in Throne Speech
The B.C. government tried to steer clear of controversy over liquefied natural gas exports, the Site C dam and fish farms in the Speech from the Throne Tuesday, which laid…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Angled cats.
Sorry, Kim, But You’ve Officially Joined the Fossils
Kim Campbell made a bit of a fool of herself by claiming that women news anchors should not wear sleeveless attire. They lacked gravitas she said. Sorry, Kim, the world…