Calling All Steadfast Canadians
Being pro-Canadian instead of complacent and meek in the face of American tariff oppression can take many forms. Perhaps the strongest expressions of how we feel are to be found…
July 2018
He Can Walk On The Water
Yesterday, Donald Trump fired his EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt. Given Pruitt’s record, his dismissal should come as no surprise. What is surprising is that, just last month, Trump praised Pruitt’s…
Trump, America’s problem.
The rest of the world is just annoyed. Canadians are thoroughly pissed. If Donald Trump is America’s problem, why are the rest of us having to deal with it? We…
Stephen Harper’s Paris speech to Mojahedin-e Khalq: No laws were broken; appropriate interests were served; get over it!
Many readers would be offended if someone were to suggest the Roman Catholic Church was a former terrorist organization with cult-like attributes. Still, wouldn’t terrorism be a fair description of…
This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt remains at top of Audreys Books’ Edmonton fiction bestseller list
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended July 2, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
18 Whacky Things About the Kingsway Entertainment District Land Use Appeals – Number 12 Will Blow Your Mind!
The so-called “Kingsway Entertainment District” “Let the wild rumpus start” –“Where the Wild Things Are”#1 – Council selected the Kingsway site for an arena 9 months before land use applications…
If it wasn’t “inappropriate,” why apologize?
Because it was inappropriate. OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his most detailed response yet Thursday to an 18-year-old allegation he groped a female reporter, confirming he had apologized…
An Analysis of Financial Flows in the Canadian Economy
An essential but perhaps overlooked way of looking at the economy is a sector financial balance approach. Pioneered by the late UK economist Wynne Godley, this approach starts with National…
Could Climate Models Be That Far Out?
If there’s been anything consistent in climate science it has been the errors in forecasts and projections. Climate science – the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), NASA, the Hadley…
Ford Government Downloads Resettlement of Asylum Seekers To Municipalities
The Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod told her federal counterparts last night that the province is withdrawing support for the resettlement of migrants entering into…
Hollywood, bigotry, and Scarlett Johansson. . . .
Ok, it has been a long time since I last blogged, but my life in the past year has been a bit crazy and disjointed. Furthermore, I have found the…
Hollywood, bigotry, and Scarlett Johansson. . . .
Ok, it has been a long time since I last blogged, but my life in the past year has been a bit crazy and disjointed. Furthermore, I have found the…
Hollywood, bigotry, and Scarlett Johansson. . . .
Ok, it has been a long time since I last blogged, but my life in the past year has been a bit crazy and disjointed. Furthermore, I have found the…
July 5: Bad News. Wimpy public
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-president-lopez-obrador-security-1.4732452 The new president of Mexico is a brave man. I can’t remember any American president of the past century who has ventured in public without a mass of agents…
New column day
Here, on how the Justice for our Stolen Children movement should spur Saskatchewan to action toward reconciliation – but is instead being met with a government determined to silence anybody…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Callahan writes about the U.S.’ billionaire-dominated political system – and why nobody should be satisfied merely with having an ideologically-agreeable set…
Our Own Fool
It didn’t take long. As soon as Doug Ford got into office, he sank Ontario’s Green Energy Program. And, over the weekend, Heath Minister Christine Elliott nixed the OHIP+ program,…
LawFact of the Day: Civil Litigation
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday July 5, 2018. Today we are talking about Civil Litigation. Civil lawsuits in Ontario’s Superior Court are commenced by issuing…
Maximum Rock/n’Roll calls new Hot Nasties EP “simple, catchy, do-it-yourself, life-sized punk rock”!
Maximum Rock’n’Roll – MRR for short – is the bible of the punk rock movement. It is the non plus ultra of punk. And MRR has called the new Hot…
An Encouraging Development
Is momentum building? Let us hope so. As the following video explains, major restaurant brands are planning to ban plastic straws. (I suggest you turn off the sound in the…