He’s “wasting his time” if he thinks he can run for a United Conservative Party nomination, says party leader Jason Kenney, but that isn’t stopping Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt from…
Back in November 2016 I was at a pretty low point for reasons both obvious and much more personal. I had been planning on winding down the blog and stepping…
Contented cats.
It was just another evening in Sarnia, February 2017, when the apocalyptic flaring began. Without warning, enormous flames engulfed Imperial Oil’s petrochemical refinery, spewing plumes of smoke into the air.…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/caravan-migrants-central-america-legal-counselling-1.4640333 Wars, poverty, imperial exploitations have created tens of millions of refugees and immigrants. And we are going to see many, many times that as world starvation and climate change…
The Team Harper gang that is running Doug's Ford's campaign, gave him the tinny slogan "For The People," to try to make him look like he really is a man…
I read the report a week ago in The Guardian. I was going to write a post on it and then I thought, nah, this is just too dark. I…
Kind of cool – the Aussies have noticed what we are doing at U of C! Maybe it’s time for me and Lisa to move Down Under? Media course should…
Legendary guitar maker, Gibson, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Gibson Brands, the makers of rock’s favourite Les Paul, SG and Flying V guitars, has filed for bankruptcy protection citing a…
Here’s my latest, in CCPA’s Monitor on reconnecting taxes and the common good. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/reconnecting-taxes-and-common-good
Justin Trudeau says British Columbians wouldn’t be enduring such high gas prices if only Kinder Morgan’s Trans Canada pipeline was up and running. It’s right there in the Globe and…
Things are pretty bad when Florida senator can’t look the other way, even for the team. Marco Rubio says “there’s no evidence whatsoever” that the recent Republican tax cuts are…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Scott Gilmore discusses how Canada is actually backsliding in some crucial development goals. And Colin Gordon writes about the inequality growing on…
It’s May 1 – the first day you can register as a candidate in Toronto’s upcoming municipal election. I am a strong proponent of urging women to run for office.…
Every day, we’re assailed with dozens of facts and figures about energy issues in Canada: how many jobs or royalties will come from a new pipeline, the annual growth rate…
…it is not the media’s job to assume that opinions without evidence are equal in worth to opinions which are fact-based. Or to assume that the scale and decibel level…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday May 1, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your…
These must be heady times indeed for those visionaries amongst us who, when they look at hectares upon hectares of greenspace, farmland, etc. see massive value-added opportunities for another kind…
That’s how many women and girls are killed in Canada so far this year. The Yonge Street massacre drove that grim number up even higher. Fifty-seven women have been killed…
The Block on Collingwood Council can’t seem to go a week without diving into their deep, private lake of hypocrisy. Remember how they whined and snarled about the partnership last…
