The Progressive Economics Forum is pleased to announce Jim Stanford as the winner of the 2018 Galbraith Prize in Economics. The selection committee included Fletcher Baragar (Manitoba), Hassan Bougrine (Laurentian),…
I’ve previously pointed out the obvious bad faith behind the Saskatchewan Party’s attempt (PDF) to monetize existing agricultural practices as a substitute for actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions – and…
Assorted content to start your week. – Luke Savage comments on Justin Trudeau’s phony war against inequality: His embrace of Keynesian economics has been equally ethereal. In 2015, apparently rebelling…
140Law: Here are our top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of May 7, 2018. For links, vist 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 7, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: How much marijuana is too much? Legalization means new questions for police…
Adopted by the founding convention in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933. The CCF is a federation of organizations whose purpose is the establishment in Canada of a Co-operative Commonwealth in which…
Photo by David Jones Happy Birthday, Karl! Few people in history have had the kind of global impact that Karl Marx has had and continues to have. 200 years after…
What not to do. From The War Room, available at all fine bookstores near you: That’s Big Truth number one. Here’s Big Truth number two: make certain that the story…
Michael Harris writes that the Ontario election is an I.Q. test for voters. And the question is, “What will voters do with a tired government that has been around for…
The shipping industry recently agreed to care about the environment and this led the Guardian to examine how the industry will change. Here at Things Are Good we’ve been keeping…
We now have our main candidates here in Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte. No, nothing exciting. The local liberals had an acclamation. Only one candidate came forward. The conservatives appointed their candidate when Doug…
Modern Conservatives indeed! The Wildrose Party base – by which I mean the United Conservative Party base, they are the same people – is a wild horse that cannot be…
Gordie. That’s what we called him – or I did, at least. When someone has been one of your closest friends for almost four decades, calling him anything else didn’t…
(Photo credit: @Alberta_UCP on Twitter) With more than 2,500 party members in attendance, this weekend’s United Conservative Party founding convention was one of the biggest political events in Alberta’s recent…
This would be funny in the ironic ha-ha sense if it wasn’t so damned serious. While the rest of us were watching UCP members debate policy resolutions in a conference…
Steven Myatt has been in Western Canada for nearly a month, first attending the weekend conference and anti-Muslim rally organized by Artur Pawlowski Calgary. His purpose in traveling to Western…
Social conservative extremist Tanya Granic Allen was removed yesterday from the Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate roster by leader Doug Ford after more of her homophobic bigotry was revealed. Yesterday, the…
We’ve seen it several times – a cop guns down someone holding a cell phone in their hand. The cop always says he opened fire because he thought the victim…
Shame on you for how MP Erin Weir has been treated. You consider yourselves the Party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton??!!!! Shame!!!
Shame on you for how MP Erin Weir has been treated. You consider yourselves the Party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton??!!!! Shame!!!
