The last adult has left the White House.
President Donald Trump has fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson. He fired him on that children’s program Twitter. And, in case Tillerson might not have checked Twitter, Trump phoned him…
March 2018
Um
Can someone in Canadian media explain why no Canadian media are covering this?
And the Arsehole of the Day Award Goes to – Deron Bilous
He’s Rachel Notley’s minister of economic development and trade, “Bilious Daren” Bilous. Minister Bilous wins the Arsehole of the Day Award for referring to his fellow NDP legislators in British…
B.C. is About to Become Last Place on West Coast to Allow Open-Net Fish Farms
Fish farm opponents and proponents alike are waiting with bated breath as a bill to phase out open net pen aquaculture farms in Washington State sits on Governor Jay Inslee’s…
Proposed Ray-Cam community centre renewal gets council approval
Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier March 14, 2018 11:34 AM They were celebrating at Ray-Cam Co-operative Community Centre Wednesday morning as the push to upgrade the centre got a boost…
Leitch lecture at U of A!
Big crowd for my Leitch lecture at U of A’s Faculty of Law – and, bonus: I got to meet the amazing Kristin Raworth!
Why Do We Stay In this Clapped Out Confederation?
I was recently asked to explain why British Columbia remains in Confederation. I really had to give it some thought but still haven’t come up with a compelling reason. I…
The Myth of the Echo Chamber
Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa and Grant Blank, University of Oxford “Information warfare” may be a top concern in the next Canadian election cycle, as a report on a workshop…
Western Water Warnings
In 2005, former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed wrote a lengthy op-ed in the Globe and Mail on Canadian water security. The final line was nothing if not prescient: “The reality…
David Akin and the Ugliness of the Con Media
David Akin has always been one of the shabbiest members of our grotesque Con media.Once he used to inhale Ezra Levant's farts at Sun TV News, until the farts caught…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Amir Sufi and Atif Mian discuss how household debt tends to drive both the booms and busts of the business cycle. Which means…
China’s Efforts to Fight Pollution are Working
Back in 2014 China decided it was sick of producing so much pollution and decided to do something about it. China started to close coal plants, spent $120 billion cleaning…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday March 14, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Mar…
No Donald Trump
For those of us who worry that Doug Ford is Donald of the North, Tom Walkom has a calming message: Forget the comparisons to Donald Trump. Doug Ford, Ontario’s new…
There are some real royals.
It is too bad that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was too busy to meet with the King and Queen of Belgium when they were in Ottawa the other day. These…
Who saw Donald Trump coming? Not Simon Reisman, that’s for sure, but maybe Ed Broadbent and John Turner
PHOTOS: Simon Reisman’s business card. Below: Mr. Reisman, chief Canadian negotiator of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement in a screenshot of a blurry CBC archival broadcast; a recent shot of…
Tillerson’s Firing Isn’t the Problem. It’s His Replacement That’s the Scary Part.
They’re changing the guard at Trump’s state department. Rex Tillerson got the boot this morning in a manner befitting the Mango Mussolini’s notion of presidential propriety. He read about it,…
His mind has always been free
So many of the images I’ve seen about the death of Stephen Hawking are basically about the wheelchair, and how now his body is free. I think it’s a bit…