Wile E. Coyote
Apparently, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are going to talk to each other. The news should be viewed in the light of an opinion from a former C.I.A. analyst.…
March 2018
WHEN OUR LOVED ONE GETS BETTER AND WE GET WORSE
This week, an online article caught my eye. It was a report on research into patients with heart disease who had undergone surgery to implant called a Ventricular Assist Device,…
How to Measure and Monitor Poverty? LIM vs LICO vs MBM.
The federal government has promised to launch a Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy in the coming weeks or months on the basis of now completed consultations with Canadians and the still…
In which I praise Trudeau and Trump
Cartoon @ the amazing de Adder. Historic. I have been critical of Justin Trudeau for (a) sucking up to Donald Trump and (b) getting nothing in return. But credit where…
Not a coincidence
The #ONPCs are picking a leader on the same day we lose time. Discuss. #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 9, 2018
The Ontario PCs in Wonderland.
Vic Fedeli is hardly the Alice in Wonderland who foolishly headed down the rabbit hole. Yet it was Interim conservative leader Fedeli who first let on that Patrick Brown might…
Alberta’s NDP borrowed more than export-cut threats from Peter Lougheed for yesterday’s Throne Speech
PHOTOS: Premier Rachel Notley speaks with well wishers in the Alberta Legislature Rotunda yesterday after her government’s Speech from the Throne was read by Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. Below: Finance…
There’s a Difference, Rachel. A Huge Difference.
In British Columbia, First Nations, environmentalists and a big segment of the general public are gearing up for a war against a dangerous and potentially catastrophic product, diluted bitumen also…
March 8: A Bad, Bad day.
I am not a happy camper. I had been writing this blog for three hours. And it just disappeared for the third time this has happened in recent weeks. That…
Republican’s genius strategy
History Professor Alfred McCoy produced The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in 1972. The CIA interfered with the book’s publication but its condemnation of American complicity in the drug…
Next week at U of A and U of C’s Faculties of Law!
Join us on March 15 for the 2018 Merv Leitch, QC Memorial Lecture with @kinsellawarren, LLB'87! pic.twitter.com/FCX8jGYyyw — UCalgary Law (@UCalgaryLaw) March 8, 2018
Violence Against the Land Begets Violence Against Women
By Melina Laboucan-Massimo, David Suzuki Foundation Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Fellow. This piece originally appeared on the David Suzuki Foundation website. On International Women’s Day, I doubt industrial projects…
I’ve Got an Idea to Rescue Justin From His Slump
Unfair or not, Justin Trudeau has taken a hit in the public’s mind over his pretty clumsy trip to India. With JT et famille sporting an elaborate wardrobe of Bollywood’s…
Some wonder why the U of C’s Faculty of Law hired me to teach communications
…wonder no more. I’m going to use this for years to come. Jaspal Atwal's lawyer gets into heated exchange with Global News reporter over lack of answers from convicted former…
NDP insiders suppressing Palestine resolution
Photo from NDP They came, mostly young people, to fight for justice. They came to support the rule of international law, to help solve a longstanding injustice through non-violent means;…
Russian Spy Poisoned, Steele Dossier, Donald Trump – Sounds Like a Hollywood Movie
He was a former Russian intelligence officer nabbed in Moscow in 2004 for having betrayed his country to Britain’s MI6 in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was a colonel…
International Women’s Day 2018 (#IWD2018)
Inspired by the struggles of working class women and led by the early socialist movement, a strategy formed to hold an annual day to demand equal rights, suffrage, an end…
All this talk of delaying the PC leadership vote reminds me of something
Oh, wait. I know what it is. Arguing that computer errors have disenfranchised huge numbers of Conservatives, Belinda Stronach’s campaign chief said Wednesday that the party’s leadership vote should be…
Angus Reid Poll: PCs would win (big) with Elliott
These results are consistent with what John Wright’s DART came up with yesterday, as seen here. Useful chart: Key findings summarized: The chaos and scandal that have rocked the Progressive…