New column day
Here, on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s unapologetic role in trying to minimize the harms of residential schools – to to mention otherwise undermining any attempt at truth and…
September 2018
An Unreliable Narrator
In fiction there exists what is known as the unreliable narrator, which can be defined in this way: It is a character who tells the reader a story that cannot…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 27, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
A Crazed Donald Trump Takes Aim At Canada. Again.
It had to be one of Donald Trump's most bizarre and deeply disturbing news conferences ever. It lasted for almost an hour and a half. Trump almost never stopped talking,…
If His Tongue Were Notarized
Having delivered a review of the province’s books — which took six weeks to complete — Doug Ford says that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals were criminals. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Listen…
An Ontario Liberal speaks
She says it better than I ever could: I so loathe those people – the ones who (with Paul Martin) destroyed the Liberal Party of Canada in 2006, and the…
Getting elected in Toronto.
The ‘Hey Rube’ at Toronto city hall is over, for now. Candidates for the 25 wards are busy candidating. The next big event will be municipal election day on October…
Energy Fund Backed by Bill Gates Only Invests in Carbon Reduction
On of the richest people on the planet is sick of climate change and has launched a venture capital firm to slow down global warming. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) funds…
UCP in damage control mode, its troll farm busy, in face of Edmonton Public School Board budget cuts analysis
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Opposition was in furious damage control mode yesterday after Edmonton Public Schools’ release of “hypothetical” estimates of four budget scenarios for what anticipated UCP cuts could…
Anne McGrath jumps into NDP nomination in Calgary-Varsity, Byron Nelson seeks UCP nod in Calgary-Bow
New Democratic Party stalwart Anne McGrath announced on social media today that she plans to seek her party’s nomination to run in Alberta’s next provincial election in the Calgary-Varsity district.…
Israel Palestine International Law Symposium
Earlier this month I attended and recorded the proceedings of the Israel Palestine International Law Symposium, held in Winnipeg September 7 – 9. While I thought I was better informed…
About that Trump press conference
…I just did a hit with Brian Lilley on CFRA about it. He asked me what I thought Donald Trump’s comments about Justin Trudeau meant. I asked Brian how many…
Finally
I have been clear. I condemn hate speech, anti-Semitism and racism in all forms- be it from Faith Goldy or anyone else. — Doug Ford (@fordnation) September 26, 2018
GREEN PARTY ANNOUNCES COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC WASHROOM ACCESS
MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPT 26, 2018 VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Green Party of Vancouver has announced a commitment to public washroom access across the city. Public…
The Sickening Saga Of Doug Ford and Faith Goldy
It's now been four days since Doug Ford and Faith Goldy met at the Ford Fest and had their picture taken together.And despite the fact that Goldy is a white…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday September 26, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. In difficult custody cases, a Court may request that the…
The Day the World Laughed at Donald Trump
It is said to be Donald Trump's greatest fear. The fear of being ridiculed or laughed at in public.So as you can see from the photo, as he waited to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jean Swanson writes about the success of Vancouver tenants in pushing to limit the rent increases which can be forced on them. But…
In Singapore Housing Crises are a Thing of the Past
Singapore lacks land and this causes interesting land use problems. In the city state they ran into issues around housing their citizens ranging from land to cost. Instead of letting…
Nightmare At The U.N.
Donald Trump addressed the U.N. yesterday and he had them rolling in the aisles. After all, absurdity can be down right funny. Dana Milbank writes: The world is now laughing…