CAREGIVERS NEVER GET SICK, RIGHT?
Once, I came down with viral meningitis. Natalie was a toddler and Nicholas was four or five. At that time, an older teenager called Cali lived with us to help…
March 2018
Ontario Election Watch, right here, gratis
As of Tuesday, March 6th in Ontario: Writ drops in 64 days! Wednesday, May 9th Election is 13 weeks and 2 days away 93 days! Ontario’s provincial election is set…
SFH: come hang out with us and win
Look, none of us are as young as we used to be. We don’t hang out in noisy, seedy bars like we used to. We go to bed earlier than…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday March 6, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Mar…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Christine Elliott has run for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives three times. The first two times she lost. Martin Regg Cohn writes that she was the right choice…
Floating Wind Farm in Scotland is a Success
Oil and gas companies have seen the writing on the wall about the future of energy: it’s all about renewables. The Norwegian state-owned company Statoil installed a massive wind farm…
Andrew Scheer’s Totally Insane Visit to Britain
It's a horrible image, and a scary one. Andrew Scheer wandering around in the ruins of post-Brexit Britain.Wearing his Brexit hat, and celebrating what he calls its "newfound independence."While posing…
A Heedless Nation
One of our much-vaunted attributes as a species is our resilience. Our ability to recover from trauma, tragedy and setbacks is the stuff of legend. People devastated by wildfires rebuild;…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lucas Chancel points out the myths underlying any claim that corporate globalization does anything but voluntarily exacerbate inequality: It is often said…
The Bully Pulpit of Donald Trump.
President Theodore Roosevelt said, more than 100 years ago, that the White House is a bully pulpit. It means something very different to the bully in today’s White House. Roosevelt…
Brian Jean, former Opposition leader and unsuccessful contender to lead United Conservative Party, quits Alberta politics
PHOTOS: Brian Jean, when he was still running for the leadership of the United Conservative Party in 2017. Below: Mr. Jean feeling the love during the race to lead the…
Notley NDP set to roll out their next legislative agenda. Brian Jean departs Alberta politics.
With the next provincial election expected to be a little more than one year away, Alberta’s MLAs will return to the Legislative Assembly for the new session on Thursday. This…
Ronny Cameron: Social Media Suicide By Attacking Bulk of Supporters
Well…. that was interesting. Ronny Cameron, a Toronto alt-right personality who has openly embraced "white nationalism" (despite bragging that he can't be racist because his girlfriend is black, unless challenged…
March 6: More Fake News
When I was a child in Montreal, the city had dozens of illegal, all night gambling houses run by the mob. Now and then, the police would raid one, bringing…
Will Kinder Morgan Cost Trudeau His Democratic Credibility? Michael Harris Thinks That’s a Price Trudeau Will Pay.
“A society that indulges in the mass arrests of its own citizens may not yet be a dictatorship, but nor is it any longer staunchly democratic. And things are decidedly…
Leadership 2018 Reference Page
A one-stop source for general links on the 2018 Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign, to be updated as the race progresses. Please feel free to add additional suggestions in comments. (And…
Condi Rice – A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln quote scripture when he warned that the slavery debate imperiled America. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” At the time, a couple of years before the Civil…
Trudeau’s Pipeline Story "A Crock of Shit." – David Suzuki
At 81, David Suzuki has declared himself to be in the “death zone,” an apparent allusion to looming mortality that has given him greater impetus to speak out. Since Justin…
Kinsellacast: Bald-faced Spin™!
…ran out of time at the end there. We’ll get it right next time.
KINSELLACAST: Bald-faced spin!
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