Get ‘Em While They’re Still Sorta Hot
It’s not too late to order your very own Trump-Kim commemorative peace summit coin. It’s a handsome reminder of the astonishing breakthrough that brought nuclear disarmament and peace to the…
May 2018
Trans Mountain Thursday – The Rule of Law and Cooperative Federalism – For Some, Just Not For All.
The Tyee again tackles TTM (Trudeau’s Trans Mountain pipeline) with two reports. Stepford Liberals, and your ranks are legion, are not going to like this. Will Horter explores how the…
May 24: Not a cheery day
Well, no surprise – Trump has cancelled his meeting with Kim Jong Un. Trump, of course, says its all Kim Jong’s faults for saying angry things about him. He didn’t…
Doug Ford’s Brutal Fall From Grace
When he ran for leader of the Ontario Cons, Doug Ford had himself anointed in a church, and vowed to clean-up what he called the rot in his party.The corruption…
Warren’s free tips on scandal stuff
So the Wynne Liberals revealed their big, big Doug Ford scandal: he allegedly paid for a few party memberships before he became leader. Big deal. “It’s nothing burger,” one senior…
Don’t You Just Love It?
Of course, the rabid, insensate right will see no contradiction or hypocrisy here. Recommend this Post
The 9.9 Percent
The Atlantic has a great article about the 9.9% being the new American aristocracy. Matthew Stewart has separated the 0.1%, who are the super rich, from the moderately wealthy who…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 24, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. If a deceased person owed support to a spouse…
Airports and opportunities vs. The Block
Strategic Vision: To become a premier regional commercial airport that stimulates the socioeconomic development of Simcoe County and the City of Barrie by improving connectivity, enhancing the competitiveness of the…
Free Public Transit Throughout Estonia
We provide access to roads for free to car drivers so why don’t we match free access to movement to people who don’t drive cars? That’s part of the rationale…
The Banana States of America
That’s the phrase Dana Milbank uses to describe his country. It’s not a dictatorship yet: Right now the fear of the United States going totalitarian doesn’t feel quite right. This…
Hoist a quaff to the Queen’s birthday.
After ignoring the royal wedding the other day in the United Kingdom, we should give proper homage to dear Queen Victoria. As you might know, it is her birthday today…
Box Moving Settling Down
I’m moving into the box unpacking stage now, except there are still some other boxes to pack up and move first. It rained last night and showed a double rainbow…
Shark Jumping in Alberta: NDP and UCP strive to outdo each other with ridiculous statements
As the Alberta Government’s fight with British Columbia over the Trans Mountain Pipeline takes on comic opera proportions, Premier Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party and Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party…
May 2018 Bits and Bites: Goudreau, Proud Boys, WCAI, Myatt, Cameron, and Faith Goldy
May is not yet over but it has been busy. As such I decided to combine some of the smaller stories I had been collecting and compile them into one…
Enron’s Patsy. How Kinder Morgan Played Trudeau and Canada for Suckers.
Steve Kean knows how to play hardball from his days as senior vice president of government affairs with the long defunct Enron corporation. Now, on behalf of the son of…
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese tops Audreys Edmonton Bestseller List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 20, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
NDP Math Error will Help the Party, Not Hurt It
The number-cruncher in me cringed in sympathy for the anonymous research nerds who made the now-famous math error in the Ontario NDP’s fiscal platform. They wrongly added a $700 million…
Can a politician block a citizen on Twitter?
A U.S. court has now said no – in an, ahem, huge judgment, here. Which moves to reprise my column on Canada’s worst-ever minister, Melanie Jolie. Here it is. Dear…