NAFTA On the Rocks
During the past year, NAFTA has been encountering ill winds and rough seas. The ill winds come from the Blow Hard-in-Chief. Peter Clark writes: The Prime Minister has used his…
May 2018
Conrad loves Donald.
It is hard to think of two people more deserving of their mutual admiration. Both Conrad Black and Donald Trump think the American President is a wonderful guy. And Lord…
NDP ‘Bubble Zone Bill’ to protect abortion clinic patients and staff passes as UCP Caucus heads for hallway hideouts again
Alberta’s “Bubble Zone Bill” to protect abortion clinic patients and staff from harassment, intimidation and potential violence has been passed by the provincial Legislature. When the vote on Third Reading…
Neo-Nazi Flyers found in In the St.Clair-Bathurst area of Toronto
On May 27, we learned that these had been found in Wells Hills Park: CBC reported on this a few days later. These stickers were also found in the same…
PC Party Platform Still With Highest Deficits and Not Approved By The Party
The PC’s released a platform today outlining the costs associated on their campaign promises but failed to provide any information on how these promises would be paid for. Mike Moffatt…
Full Disclosure by former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin tops Audreys list of bestselling books
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 27, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
NDP Widens Its Base In Final Push To Election Day
A new EKOS poll released today shows the current election in Ontario in a dead heat with the NDP up slightly at 38.4%, PC’s 37.9%, Liberals at 19.1%, and the…
The Ontario NDP replaces the Liberals this year as the slayers of crappy Conservatives…
The latest CBC poll aggregation – May 30, 2018 This ongoing Ontario election campaign continues to fascinate and surprise. The latest polls are showing Andrea Horwath’s NDP either neck-and-neck with…
Reefer dumbness
Ironically enough, Kathleen Wynne has pledged to sell drugs in many more neighbourhoods than that. https://t.co/XbtcFlbvGv #onpoli https://t.co/AvEtzMSi4b — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 30, 2018 Liberals are running this ad…
#StopKM Pipeline
An important bit of historical timeline, as delivered by the very credible and courageous Elizabeth May. In the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau pledged that no project could be approved…
Top ten Wizard excuses for the Wynne Wipeout™
A week to go, and I have already started to hear some of the excuses being road-tested by the Wizard and the Board. They know they are going to lose.…
Plutarch on listening, and The Block
“e observe that… the great majority of persons …practise speaking before they have acquired the habit of listening.” Plutarch wrote that in his essay De Auditu, or On Listening. Reading…
$4.5 Billion? Try $20 Billion.
What a fitting legacy for a double dealing prime minister, a pipeline fiasco. He may not like it but Justin Trudeau’s name will forever be tied to a bitumen tube.…
Bill McKibben Sums Up Trudeau in One Sentence
“In case anyone wondered, this is how the world ends: with the cutest, progressivest, boybandiest leader in the world going fully in the tank for the oil industry.” That’s how…
Faint Praise
I don’t care very much for this prime minister, Trudeau. I don’t care for his double-dealing. I’m fed up with his lying and his rank hypocrisy. That said I want…
Vote for Something, But PLEASE Vote Against Ford
Stopping a Doug Ford majority is as simple as making sure even a few votes swing away or are at least placed on or before June 7. PLEASE vote and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lambert Strether points out that standard estimates of income inequality (jarring though they are to begin with) tend to ignore the capital gains…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday May 30, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. Many couples live separate and apart “under one roof,” following…
We bought a pipeline! How the federal government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline impacts the key players in this never-ending dispute
We own a pipeline! Well, not yet. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced yesterday that the federal government plans to purchase the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline from Kinder Morgan Inc.…