On the Climate Emergency
Lots of bleak news these days. The fires sweeping through Canada and the U.S. this year, at least, for the thinnest of silver linings in these devastating tragedies, have woken…
August 2018
We’ve Been Here Before
E.J. Dionne writes that the United States is slouching toward autocracy. We like to think that autocracy arrives will a military coup. However, in their book, “How Democracies Die,” political…
The troubled trials of Trudeau and Trump.
It’s embarrassing. Our prime minister cannot handle Donald Trump. We might as well admit it. It is doing less and less good to keep hoping Justin Trudeau will grow into…
Guy Kerr can’t be blamed for the Alberta WCB’s troubles, but his resignation is an opportunity to get it back on track
Guy Kerr cannot be blamed for the tragic wrong turn the Alberta Workers Compensation Board took nearly 30 years ago under the Conservative governments of premiers Don Getty and Ralph…
It’s Now Obvious Why We Needed a Change of Government in 2017
If you voted for the NDP in the last election because you wanted to stop the Site C project or halt the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, then you must be…
It’s Now Obvious Why We Needed a Change of Government in 2017
If you voted for the NDP in the last election because you wanted to stop the Site C project or halt the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, then you must be…
It’s Now Obvious Why We Needed a Change of Government in 2017
If you voted for the NDP in the last election because you wanted to stop the Site C project or halt the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, then you must be…
hello, yes, this is raincoaster
raincoaster hello yes this is raincoaster So, it’s been awhile, no? For those of you who’ve missed updates at the ol’ raincoaster blog, since the last time this blog was…
Talk About Tone Deaf. Trudeau and the Kids Are Coming to Nanaimo.
The prime minister’s cabinet retreat to Nanaimo this weekend should be hilarious. The official proclamation says Trudeau and his minions will be gathering to discuss seemingly everything but climate change…
85 Years (and Four Days) Since Christie Pits
I’m a little late but I thought that it was still worth commemorating. A few days ago Duke Willis had three people as guests for the viewing pleasure of 8…
Is the Trudeau government unconstitutional?
Canada demanded that Saudi Arabia release persons jailed there and a storm erupted, with Saudia Arabia cutting off most interactions with Canada. It would be very ironic if the current…
Chris Hedges – "Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth"
Sorry to be piling on with climate posts. Today there’s been something of a tsunami of climate stories. Atop the latest pile of research papers, Chris Hedges weighs in with…
What Really Happens to Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ecuador
XIV ALBA-TCP summit, 2017 • Photo by EneasMx Stories about corruption and internal government-generated violence concerning most unaligned countries abound in the MSM. These lies fuel hatred. And the public…
Justin, Have a Word With Johnny.
He’s one of the greatest climate scientists of our day. Hans Joachim “Johnny” Schellnhuber has been the head of Germany’s Potsdam Institute and chief climate advisor to Angela Merkel and,…
Capitalism, Changed By Its Contradictions
This week on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff delivers updates on the growing poverty rate in California, the epidemic of childhood obesity in the U.S. and the economic fallout of Trump’s…
Who Knew? Loads of People Knew.
Here are a couple of items plucked from the media around the turn of the last century. First up, an item published in a New Zealand paper in 1912. Then…
Hey, This Just In… Extreme Weather Gonna Get More Extreme. Crimes Against Humanity.
I know, this sounds a lot like the other blockbuster reports from last week and the week before that and all the weeks before those weeks. Sitting here at my…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of August 20, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of August 20, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 20, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 20, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.…
George Orwell Meets Rudy Giuliani
“Truth isn’t truth,” proclaims the increasingly zany and demented uncle known as Rudy Giuliani. Start at the 1:20 mark to take the full measure of the man, the man he…