From the Top On Down
Donald Trump’s decision to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was utterly cynical. Michael Harris writes: When Trump departed from longstanding American policy by moving the American…
May 2018
Work hard, play hard, at Daisy Group
We had a surprise visitor today! We've had Prime Ministers and Premiers at Daisy – but this was our first President. Thank you President @BarackObama for a productive meeting –…
‘NRA Strategy’ to block connection of climate change dots won’t work when the climate disaster’s in B.C.
As fear rises in British Columbia this week along with the province’s record floodwaters, the likelihood B.C. voters will connect the dots between man-made climate change and “natural” catastrophes is…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Boutilier discusses the glaring gap between hype and reality when it comes to tech sector jobs. And Virgina Eubanks writes about…
New column day
Here, on how Canada continues to tear Indigenous children away from their families due to the lingering effects of discriminatory policies. For further reading…– Katie Hyslop has been reporting on…
Vice Runs the Trans-Mountain Numbers. The Results are Shocking.
Vice.com has analyzed the unmentioned but very real costs associated with the Trans-Mountain pipeline and the numbers are, dare I say it, “appalling.” What’s interesting is that the Vice numbers…
Have we finally learned how to stop worrying and love The Bomb?
Slim Pickens on the set of Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Last year, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to abolish nuclear weapons.…
The race to the bottom is over
In the fiscal years 2016 and 2017, natural gas royalty payments totalled $291 million. However, credits owed producers increased $748 million so, if the province bothered to record these obligations…
I Agree. There’s No Place Any Longer for Identity Politics.
When Justin Trudeau spoke to graduating students of New York University yesterday he criticized the growth in identity politics. I commend him for that. It’s a phenomenon that fosters clannish…
Show me the documents!
The trolls and troglodytes on social media are whinging again about allegedly missing documents that relate to the 2012 sale of 50% of Collus. They want you to think there…
The most accurate poll was….
Mainstreet Research (a firm not around for the 2014 Ontario election) is beginning a daily tracking poll today, so with three weeks to go in the campaign we should expect…
"The West, As We Once Knew It, No Longer Exists."
Der Spiegel has called upon Europe to join the resistance to Trump America. The editorial says Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear pact has undermined the North Atlantic consensus.…
May 17: Time to Wake Up.
Ever notice that the U.S. no longer declares war? It just starts killing. The U.S. has not declared war since December of 1941. Since then, it has attacked over 70…
Block bullies are at it again
May 14’s council agenda (p. 40-49) contained yet more evidence of The Block’s bully-boy tactics and pettiness: a complaint made to the integrity commissioner against our mayor. They damn her no…
Setting The Record Straight
In theory, this primer should cut through weather-change denialism. In practice, of course, it will do no such thing. Conspiracy theories, junk science and muddled thinking, after all, are so…
He’s "Appalled" – What in Hell Does That Mean?
Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, says he’s “appalled” at the massacre of protesting Palestinians by Israeli army snipers inside the gulag that is Gaza. Somebody apparently slipped JT…
Recipe For Hate called one of the best books for young readers!
Need a great summer read for your reluctant young reader? Try one of these titles, selected as Best Books for Kids & Teens, Spring 2018! Congratulations to @sylviamcnicoll, Shelley Peterson,…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 17, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. An estate trustee is entitled to be paid for…