Syria is the dam against more bloody chaos
Illustration by Carlos Latuff Neither side can be characterised as “good”. There are no “white hats” in this gunfight. But there is clearly a side to prefer if the yardstick…
April 2018
The Hot Nasties: back after 38 years!
The Hot Nasties were a first-wave Calgary punk band who (improbably) have had their stuff covered by the likes of the Palma Violets and Nardwuar, and praised by the frontmen…
It’s Time To Ask The Right Questions
The old myth that tax cuts, especially of the corporate kind, create jobs, continues to be circulated. Indeed, here in Ontario, PC leader Doug Ford is promising to reduce the…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 25, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) assist Ontario Courts in…
Elizabeth May: An Oilsands Bargain that Actually Makes Sense
In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Oleg Komlik takes note of Wade Cole’s research showing how income inequality affects political dynamics. And Hannah Finnie recognizes that young people are…
Some People Haven’t Done Their Homework
If Justin Trudeau is to be believed, the Canadian government is going to take an equity stake in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline. Andrew Nikiforuk suggests that we should take…
Don’t Waste Your Time Showering Everyday
Every year it seems showering is brought up on this site and the theme is always the same: shower less. Indeed, back in 2006 we looked at a device called…
The Toronto Tragedy and the Trump Party Cons
It was already a horrible tragedy, an act of insane violence or murderous misogyny. The alleged attacker had posted praise for a mass murderer in the United States who was…
“It’s not always about you.”
In the many (many) years I was a hockey Dad, the rules were pretty clear: only coaching staff are allowed on the players’ bench. So, um, is he a coach…
Different directions for divided liberals.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau needs to check the direction in which his mob is headed. It is very hard to get out front to lead them when you are headed…
On Entitlement and Unfettered Rage
One of the benefits or downfalls of the internet is that it allows fringe groups to find each other online. When it comes to feeling like nobody in the world…
Jason Kenney joins attack on David Suzuki; complains too many U of A honorary degrees go to progressives
Where is the Globe and Mail, the National Post, federal Opposition leader Andrew Scheer? After all, they were all such convincing defenders of intellectual freedom on campus when the barbs…
Bigots and Hate Groups Lie About Toronto Tragedy
On April 23, 2018, a van swerved onto the sidewalk in Toronto in what appears to have been an intentional act. When the carnage was over, 10 people were dead…
Before David Suzuki there was the William Aberhart honorary degree scandal at the University of Alberta
The decision by the University of Alberta Senate to grant environmentalist, scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki an honorary degree has the university community tied in knots. University President David Turpin…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Couched cats.
Vested interests dictate energy policy
The coming shifts in power distribution is referred to as the democratization of energy. It is resisted at BC Hydro and other utilities but it is inevitable…
Trudeau’s Stacked Deck
Did the Trudeau government rig the approval of Kinder-Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline? Vancouver-based, National Observer, has an 8-part report that the Trudeau government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline was…
Time For a Fix: B.C. Looks at Overhaul of Reviews for Mines, Dams and Pipelines
As pipeline politics dominate headlines, British Columbia is poised to overhaul the process that guides how major resource and development projects proceed. Tags: environmental assessment BC LNG rio tinto New…
April 24: And so the chaos goes on….
http://rabble.ca/news/2018/04/capitalist-god%E2%80%99s-10-commandments________________________________________________________________ http://theantimedia.com/us-backed-coalition-bombs-wedding-yemen-killing-bride/ The story above appeared in the morning of April 23. Will it make the irving press on April 24? I doubt it very much. Now, if this had…