Where Is The Walk?
Justin Trudeau’s increasing propensity for talking the talk but not walking the walk has been noticed by the anti-poverty organization One Campaign, led by Trudeau’s good ‘friend,’ U2’s Bono, in…
April 2018
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday April 26, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Everyone who applies in Ontario for a Certificate of…
New column day
Here, on the Trudeau Libs’ biased approach to the Trans Mountain expansion – and the need to take a fair look now, rather than allowing Kinder Morgan to dictate timelines…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sunil Johal and Armine Yalnizyan discuss the importance of building an economy based on a race to the top in labour and…
The women-haters
From next week’s column in the Hill Times. Twenty-nine years earlier: it is around four o’clock in the afternoon, on a bitterly-cold Wednesday. I am a lawyer at an Ottawa…
Not Believed, Not Trusted
Donald Trump has a cluttered and chaotic brain. Nowhere is the chaos more evident than on the question of nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran. On the one hand,…
Electric Busses Save Tonnes of Energy
The implementation of electric busses into public transit fleets continues to grow – and it’s happening too quickly for the oil industry. Obviously the oil industry doesn’t like sustainable energy…
Fraser Institute starts with conclusions.
As any experienced writer can tell you, the toughest challenge is to write a report to a predetermined conclusion. This is also why knowledgeable readers are often skeptical of Fraser…
Embarrassing honorary degree stories: ‘Did no one warn them?’
You have to ask why universities bother handing out honorary degrees like bonbons when you think about all the trouble it can cause them. Consider the embarrassing 2012 case of…
My Letter Appealing the City of Greater Sudbury’s Decision to Adopt By-law 2018-63Z to Permit an Arena on the Kingsway
To my regular readers: please forgive me this additional indiscretion – I’ve become involved in a matter in my community for which I feel very passionate about – my municipal…
The Real Reason Canada is in Crisis Over the Kinder Morgan Pipeline
Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy to lose track of how on earth we ended up in this place of dysfunction.…
Solar power unstoppable, even on the wet coast
Dave Melrose, a reader who is in the solar installation business, commented on my previous article Death knell for net metering. He worries that people could be misinformed because I…
Shaggy mop nap
In Sketcha, using the ballpoint pen tool – far more scribbling than I usually do, but drawing her high highness’ shaggyness requires some different approaches.
Revolution in a Warming World: Lessons from the Russian to the Syrian Revolutions
Image by DWF Hardie/ICI/Wikimedia It doesn’t take much imagination to associate climate change with revolution. If the planetary order upon which all societies are built starts breaking down, how can…
Tell Us Something We Don’t Know
The federal government isn’t properly handling the risks that fish farms pose to wild salmon. Trudeau’s environmentalist-cred just took another shot thanks to Canada’s environment commissioner. In a series of…
Elizabeth May’s Perfectly Reasonable Compromise
What if we could sort out the Athabasca Tar Sands in a way that would eliminate most of the hazards of that Carbon Bomb, increase employment and wealth in Canada,…
Right now at the Economic Club
@lisakinsella @supriyadwivedi @MichelleRempel @LaRoccaKelly speaking on the need for more women in politics at the Economic Club of Canada today!
On unequal treatment
With the Trans Mountain pipeline dominating as much news coverage as it has, it’s inevitable that we’d see the usual debate as to the relative desirability of different types of…
Are You Kidding? Pimp Bitumen but Douse the Centennial Flame to Fight Carbon Emissions?
There aren’t many lengths Trudeau won’t go to when it comes to pimping bitumen. He’ll lie and lie and lie, he’ll freely break his promises, he’ll even pressure public servants…
Europe’s biggest bank retreats from the oilsands
Photo by Barry Caruth Europe’s largest bank has joined the list of global investors retreating from new financial commitments in the fossil fuel industry, including investments in oil-rich Alberta. HSBC,…