March 2018
The Wrong Side Of History
Things are starting to get nasty out in British Columbia. Michael Harris writes: In the last few days, approximately 30 Canadian citizens have been arrested for opposing Kinder Morgan’s pipeline…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of March 19, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 19, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Stormy Daniels Offers to Return Payment to End Deal for Her Silence…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Stanford discusses what can be done to make international terms of trade serve the public, rather than merely offering multinational corporations control…
Reading is for Winners
It’s easy to fall out of the habit of reading books because of the endless entertainment options we access through our phones. This year you ought to put down your…
How Doug Ford Will Have The Whole World Laughing At Us
In one of my last posts I wondered how any sane Canadian could vote for a bestial Con ape like Doug Ford.And whether we should call those who support him…
Episode 8: The Return of the Leg, Pipelines, and prep for the 2019 election
With Alberta’s Legislature is back in session this week, Dave and Ryan deliver their takes on the hottest issues facing MLAs, including Premier Rachel Notley’s Pipeline motion and how Economic…
Donald Trump Goes After Robert Mueller
There is no man Donald Trump fears more than Robert Mueller, the special counsel who could have him evicted from the White House, and even sent to the Big House.He's…
Column: will Wynne’s story have a sad ending?
There are all kinds of clichés about how and why governments lose. That they defeat themselves. That they die by degrees. That they become the very thing they had once…
Doug Ford and the Ugly Canadians
I must admit that I never paid too much attention to Doug Ford until recently. I just saw him as the lesser half of the ghastly Ford Brother's Comedy and…
Canadians to Trudeau: smarten up
From Angus Reid: The passage of time appears to have done nothing to soothe Canadian voters irritated with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since his highly criticized passage to India last…
Trudeau’s Dirty Double Dealing Explored – Michael Harris, iPolitics.
We all loved Michael Harris when he would sink his teeth into Stephen Harper. Now some of us don’t love him quite so much when he calls Justin Trudeau out…
National Observer on Doug Ford
Here: And while Doug Ford isn’t exactly like Donald Trump, he shares enough similarities with the current U.S. president to merit the comparisons. Like Trump, even though he’s well off…
On the Necessity for a Public Takedown
When, a couple months back, I read Katie Way’s depiction of a date between “Grace” and Aziz Ansari, at first I felt badly for him to be outed as such…
Is AggregateIQ Out to Subvert BC’s Next Provincial Election?
Think of it as the love child of Chris Wylie and Steve Bannon. AggregateIQ, a small Victoria company widely thought of as the black magic that led to the upset…
Are Alberta’s Policy Makers Agile Enough for Emerging Technologies?
I have been travelling the province facilitating workshops on the the impacts and implications of emerging technologies in our economy. These technologies are also called disruptive and exponential by some…
Are Alberta’s Policy Makers Agile Enough for Emerging Technologies?
I have been travelling the province facilitating workshops on the the impacts and implications of emerging technologies in our economy. These technologies are also called disruptive and exponential by some…
Are Alberta’s Policy Makers Agile Enough for Emerging Technologies?
I have been travelling the province facilitating workshops on the the impacts and implications of emerging technologies in our economy. These technologies are also called disruptive and exponential by some…
"Find Chris Wylie" – the Young Canadian from Victoria Who Pulled Britain Out of the EU and Helped Put Donald Trump into the White House.
He’s still just 28 and yet he may have been the deciding factor in the Brexit referendum. He also played a role in getting Trump into the White House. He…