Meanwhile in "New Normal" Weather News
I hear you eastern folks are roasting today. Apparently roads are buckling from the heat. Probably getting used to it, eh? There was a time these heatwaves would have been…
July 2018
The North End Revisited: Photographs by John Paskievich
The North End Revisited: Photographs by John Paskievich John Paskievich University of Manitoba Press, 2017 With her body still missing on a warm Winnipeg April, the Indigenous community held a…
Let’s talk about sex
Here: Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government appears to be retreating from its decision to teach the 1998 sex-education curriculum, which predates Google, social media and same-sex marriage. While Education Minister…
Oh, Well, This is Awkward. Trump’s Apathy to "Unfair Trade" with Russia.
At the recent NATO summit, the Mango Mussolini tore into German chancellor, Angela Merkel, over her country’s approval of a direct-from-Russia natural gas pipeline. But what about the United States?…
Energy economics
Photo by US Bureau of Land Management Our world is on the brink of climate catastrophe. Most of us are keenly aware of the fact: it has embedded itself within…
Hassan Diab: Nothing Less Than a Public Inquiry Will Do
Photo by RFI He has been compared to Alfred Dreyfus, the iconic 19th-century French victim of false accusation and racism. The entire spectrum of the Canadian press has covered his…
What does Alberta Future Look like?
In 2018, an Alberta Government Department – called Alberta Economic and Development and Trade developed a pamphlet. Entitled the “2017 Highlights of the Alberta Economy”, it noted that Alberta had…
Paging King Canute
His lesson needs to be relearned, methinks. Recommend this Post
Lock Them Up. Lock Them Up. Lock Them Up.
Imagine Tony Blair and George w. Bush languishing the years away behind bars for their ginned-up war on Iraq. Imagine future “tough guy” leaders weighing whether to pound little countries…
What Do Trump’s Base and Trudeau’s Base Have in Common?
Not much, I hope, but there is this – both seem willing to either swallow their leader’s nonsense or look the other way. With Trump the examples are almost limitless.…
Putting Public Ownership Back on the Table
Photo from Public Domain In a recent announcement, Greyhound Canada has decided to end its passenger bus lines west of Ontario, leaving over 400 people unemployed, and numerous communities without…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 16, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 16, 2018. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul 16, 2018 at 7:28am PDT…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman highlights how work requirements and other barriers to social benefits serve only to needlessly increase poverty without improving employment rates. And…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 16, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 16, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump to Name Supreme Court Nominee: What to Watch ‘It’s actually shocking…
Settler-colonialism targets youth
Young Gwich’in Girls, Midway Lake Music Festival, near Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories • Photo by Adam Jones As the world contemplates with horror the United States’ recent policy of separating…
Green Vacant Land to Regrow Neighbourhoods
Falling apart houses, patches of unused land, and generally neglected residential spaces can be found throughout American cities. These urban blights not only look ugly but cause societal problems as…
Less Than Honourable Men
Four British Foreign Secretaries have resigned since Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Three of them, William Keegan writes, were honourable men: Carrington resigned over the way the Foreign Office had…
Column: before the #TreasonSummit ends, @realDonaldTrump has already won
When we have all been reduced once again to ashes – when the web site you now peer at is reduced to digital dust – thinkers will think, as thinkers…
UCP quashes giant bozo-erruption in the making by dropping anti-Muslim nomination candidate
The United Conservative Party quashed a giant bozo-erruption in the making this week when the party asked S. Todd Beasley to withdraw his candidacy for the nomination in the new…