As August 11, the day of the planned Worldwide Coalition Against Islam event in Toronto, approaches, Ward 27 Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam issued the following statement regarding the hate rally on…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Aug. 8, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
In Norway, with 5.3 million people, upstream petroleum companies are subject to a 27% petro tax plus a special tax of 51%. Alberta petroleum tax is less than 4%. BC’s…
The provincial election of June ended 15 years of Liberal electricity policy in Ontario. Anger over high electricity prices continued to be an election issue, contributing to the Liberals loss…
The British government is planning to stockpile food and medicine to prevent chaos in the event of a no-deal Brexit that disrupts essential supply chains. About one-third of the food…
It’s a long read. It’s a tough read. Losing Earth focuses on the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989 when politicians almost reached a consensus to arrest global warming. Losing…
Citizens of British Columbia are facilitating and subsidizing production of bitumen from Alberta tar sands. How’s that for an example of hypocrisy by a Government that claims it object to…
A brewer defrocks Ford’s beer boondoggle and asks an interesting question – what’s this really all about? Buck a beer! Hey, here’s an issue I am totally qualified to write…
It's been almost two days since the perfumed prince of the barbarous kingdom of Saudi Arabia, launched an insane assault on Canada for having had the nerve to stand up…
Hot on the heels of the news that Justin’s folly will now cost taxpayers at least another $1.9 billion comes widespread acknowledgement that we may indeed be reaching the climate-change…
“Solving climate change is about power, money, and political will.” That’s how Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University College London, imagines we might sort out climate change…
Expert analysis of Buck-A-Beer controversy:• Ford’s core vote, who buy two-fours of Laker, eat barbecue and don’t know who Robert Mueller is, love it• Ford haters, who drink oak-aged Serbian…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday August 8, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. “My ex-employer just gave me a severance proposal, but I…
This is the summer climate change got real for lots of people. Simon Lewis writes in The Guardian: This is the summer when, for many, climate change got real. The…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Rich writes that the lack of a meaningful response to the 2008 financial crisis has understandably undermined public confidence in the U.S.’…
Every time you see president Trump at one of his campaign rallies, the people around him are all too busy with their cell phones to pay any attention to him.…
A report by three high-profile academics with expertise in public opinion research who were commissioned to look into polling failures that marred the 2017 Calgary municipal election campaign sharply criticizes…
Flattened cats.
Is there an appropriate response by Canada to the bizarre events of the last few hours on the diplomatic circuit? It’s not just that Canada’s ambassador has been kicked out…
In mid July, posters and sticker began showing up in Medicine Hat, AB that read “Immigration = White Genocide” and included the web address for an anti-immigration, Islamophobic, hate site.…
