Strategic Voting in Ontario: An Ineffective Project
This post contends that current, relevant research does not support an argument that strategic voting is an effective way to counter an undesirable election outcome. Two papers — one…
April 2018
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 23, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 23, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
If You Have A Yahoo Or Rogers E-Mail Account
… you should be very, very concerned about the extortionate play they are making for your data, including your emails, your contact lists, indeed, your very identity. Over the past…
The Rebound of the Fuel of Extinction
Fossil fuels are staging a strong comeback. CBC business reporter, Don Pittis, writes that “investors need to know what comes next.” But, he writes, this may be the fossil fuelers…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Costanza reviews Mariana Mazzucato’s The Value of Everything, and highlights its focus on attaching proper importance to priorities that aren’t reflected in…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 23, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 16, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Right to be forgotten’ can apply to criminals: UK high court rules…
ResoluteReader: Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – The German Ideology…
ResoluteReader: Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – The German Ideology…: Reading The German Ideology I am once again reminded about how clear the writing of Marx and Engels can be.…
ResoluteReader: Frederick Engels – The Peasant War in Germany
ResoluteReader: Frederick Engels – The Peasant War in Germany: This short work by Frederick Engels is rarely read, but it forms an important part of his contribution to Marxist historical…
Underwhelmed
The Liberal convention in Halifax left Michael Harris underwhelmed. That word also describes Harris evaluation of Justin Trudeau. He does give Trudeau credit for accomplishing a few important things: There…
Bird Brains Avoid Wind Farms
Opponents of clean energy try to find any reason to stop renewable installations (I guess they hate the planet?) and when it comes to wind farms they suddenly start caring…
Column: Liberals and sexual harassment
Forgiveness. When is it owed, politically? By whom, and when? Who should dispense it, and who should receive it? Not abstract questions. Not, certainly, on the weekend that federal Liberals…
Horwath has been heard from.
News from the front lines of the pre-election election campaign in Ontario: The New Democratic Party does exist. As irrelevant as the NDP might be in this pre-election period, it…
Liberal amounts of fake accounting
Residents of British Columbia understand financial pain that follows when officeholders subvert public utilities to gain political advantage and reward special interests. BC Liberals aimed to privatize public assets and…
Alberta is not Texas North, Canada is not Kazakhstan, and Kinder Morgan’s big brains in Houston must’ve known it
There are a few Albertans who happily imagine this place is Texas North. Alas for those who do, and notwithstanding the media stereotypists who encourage this nonsense, we are as…
Plenty of Blame to go Around on TMX Pipeline
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
Plenty of Blame to go Around on TMP
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
The Country is Broken!
Just when Albertans thought things couldn’t get any worse, Jason Kenney declared the country was broken. What? Did Trumpism seep across the border while we were sleeping? Canada survived the…
Whytecliff Park
Whytecliff Park
Michael Crummey’s ’Sweetland’ leads Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List for fiction
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 15, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Episode 10: Week 300 of the Trans Mountain Pipeline debate, and predictions for Alberta’s 2019 Election.
This episode includes analysis from Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman about week 300 of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline dispute (including updates from Ryan, who was behind enemy lines…