Arms Race Update – Red Square Edition
Vlad the Confounder is planning on staying around for another six-year term. Oh I suppose he could lose the upcoming election but there’s slightly more chance of our sun turning…
March 2018
Bad week
Got more than two million in last few weeks. Patrick Brown, come back! My week on Twitter : 1.14K Mentions, 490K Mention Reach, 2.99K Likes, 891 Retweets, 619 Replies. See…
Goodbye Hope. Welcome Home, Mooch.
During a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time show, Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci was pretty obviously angling to get back into the White House. Now Trump is short one…
Survey says: Elliott won the debate
But you can still vote now, vote often! (If I were Ms. Mulroney, I would be a bit worried that I’m getting clocked by Ms. Windmill Sex Corrupt Patrick Brown…
A Healthy Mind Comes from Autonomy and a Sense of Control
A new book authors William Stixrud and Ned Johnson describe a healthy way to raise children is to let me e themselves. In the book, The Self-Driven Child, they argue…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday March 1, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on the importance of Saskatchewan’s citizens staying engaged and active – rather than viewing the end of the main parties’ leadership races as a basis to tune…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom and Andre Picard took the time to wonder whether the Libs actually planned to deliver on pharmacare before Bill Morneau…
Pouring Gasoline On the Fire
It’s generally agreed that Justin Trudeau’s recent trip to India was an abject failure. An invitation to a convicted would be assassin was the original cause of Trudeau’s problems. But…
Is Andrew Scheer Slowly Losing His Marbles?
Ever since the Liberal government tabled its new budget, Andrew Scheer has been looking distinctly under the weather.Or as one might say a little less delicately, looking like a man…
The mild-mannered Minister Morneau.
To think that it was only during the last half of last year that I was calling for the finance minister’s head. This week’s budget hardly left me feeling fonder.…
Has Trump Gone "Full Bunker"?
Things aren’t going well for the very stable genius, el Presidente Donaldo Trump.Not well at all. Son in law Jared has lost his top secret security clearance which means he’ll…
CBC offered “pure propaganda”
After a CBC radio offering that made little effort to provide a complete story, economist Erik Andersen sent a message to CBC Early Edition. Erik keeps a close eye on…
Misappropriation of public wealth
This article was first published in April 2016 and is repeated because is explains how BC Hydro got into the private power mess that continues to cost ratepayers hundreds of…
Ron Banerjee: A Racist Walter Mitty
It is almost impressive how shameless Ron Banerjee is. ARC has covered Banerjee, a supporter of Hinduvata, for a few years now. To suggest that he is anti-Muslim, anti-Sikh, and…
Third quarter financial results released by Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci suggest NDP economic strategy is working
PHOTOS: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci, basking in the fiscal sunshine. Below Joe: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, like Mr. Ceci, a New Democrat; Opposition UCP Leader Jason Kenney; and Alberta…
Maia Caron’s Song of Batoche remains atop Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 25, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Total Votes in Alberta political party leadership races from 1998 to 2018
Photo: Ed Stelmach (elected leader of the PC Party in 2006), Danielle Smith (elected leader of the Wildrose Alliance in 2009), Kevin Taft (elected leader of the Liberal Party in…