Buried in this week’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) report on the Ontario government books is a very quiet admission that Ontario ran a surplus of $700 million in 2017/18 (when…
You would have thought that after the horrible Kalamazoo River dilbit fiasco, Canadian pipeline giant, Enbridge, would have been a little more conscious about pipeline safety. Apparently not so much.…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/british-tax-havens-new-legislation-passed-1.4644172 Too bad Canada won’t do this. (And I’m pretty sure that the irving press will not publish this story.) —postscript — two days after I wrote this, I can…
To hear Justin Trudeau tell it, Canada’s fossil fuels are the key to our prosperity. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk says that’s pure bullshit. A comprehensive report on Canada’s energy sector…
via Politics! Mix, when it was run by Paper by 53 was a great little creative social site. Art was offered as jumping points for improvisations. The monstrous creatures in…
We’ve all heard about how downtowns have failed in smaller cities while big box stores like Walmart succeed; what we don’t really talk about is why and what’s the solution.…
There are more than 14 thousand posts on this blog. Sometimes I pick a year and a month and go back to see what I was writing at that time.…
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Hmmm… I think the colouring worked out well.
Back in February, Doug Ford told a a private gathering that he was going to open up the Greenbelt — which surrounds Toronto — to housing development. Fortunately, what he…
More terrible news. This is just an awful, awful week. Update: Toronto Division April 29th 13 found George and brought him to hospital where he later passed away. He was…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 3, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jake Johnson writes about the obscene amount of money handed to the wealthy in the U.S. by the Republicans’ tax scam. And…
Here, on Regina’s longstanding rail-freeway conflict as an example of the need to take the long view of infrastructure decisions – and the dangers of locking ourselves into dying and…
Last night, the Mango Mussolini’s own lawyer did him in. Appearing on Fox, Rudy Giuliani said Trump was the one who paid a porn star hush money, not his attorney…
Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani haven't been seen together since the heady days of the Republican leadership race.But Trump has been shaking up his legal team as Robert Mueller closes…
Political wannabes never seem to understand the lost privacy of politics. There is less and less every year. Privacy is a passing possibility. I can remember back in the early…
Alberta’s Opposition United Conservative Party has distributed to its members a list of 782 policy proposals to be considered at its founding convention in Red Deer this weekend. Inevitably, the…
When it comes to summing up the deeply disappointing Liberal prime minister, Michael Harris does it as well as anyone. Canadians dumped the Conservatives for a young, attractive politician who…
The province has given the go-ahead for Cermaq Canada to use up to 2.3 million litres of a pesticide called Paramove 50 to remove sea lice from fish at 14…
