Little Stephen Harper on the Big Stage
I couldn’t change the channel quickly enough so I heard a segment on Stephen Harper on As It Happens. I suppose there are those that would laud Mr Harper being…
October 2018
Tax expenditures
Tax expenditures, represent a tax break that government offers people and corporations in support of policy objectives. It’s forgone revenue, or money that government doesn’t collect, but could if it…
Beat it
Jen Keesmaat: “We have beat John Tory.” Uh, no you haven’t. No you won’t.
Oct. 9:Welcome to Nazi North America
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-report-global-warming-climate-change-1.4854363 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/08/the-guardian-view-on-climate-change-a-global-emergency https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-points-could-exacerbate-climate-crisis-scientists-fear https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/08/world-leaders-climate-change-ipcc-report https://truthout.org/articles/earths-ice-loss-is-a-nuclear-explosion-of-geologic-change/ Climate change is for real. And we have no idea how quickly it may happen. As it happens, expect refugees in the hundreds of millions.…
The Case for Climate Pessimism
That’s the title of an article in The New Republic that, in the wake of the latest IPCC report, wrestles with the merits and drawbacks of climate optimism, “we can…
Jason Kenney Calls it Socialist Propaganda, but Mouseland has Abiding Relevance in Canadian Politics
Last week, Alberta United Conservative Party (UCP) leader Jason Kenney took great exception to a children’s story session. Why, you ask? Because Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley chose to read…
Review of the Renegotiated NAFTA: Benefits and Drawbacks to Canada
Trudeau and Freeland praise USMCA trade deal There is something strange about this. Other than Maude Barlow and of Sujata Dey of the Council of Canadians, it appears that no…
Why Only The New Generation Can Save The World
When I saw the IPCC report warning that Planet Earth is in even worse shape than most humans thought it was, I was stunned.So soon, so devastating. The world is…
Column: hypocrisy in the form of a cross
Hypocrisy, nailed to a cross. It is about three feet high, and it is found at the very centre of a massive, baroque throne. It rather resembles something one would…
I Thought They Left Something Out. Gaping Holes in the IPCC Climate Report.
Yesterday’s report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was pretty jarring with its dire warning that we had just a dozen years to cut our carbon emissions by almost…
A vote for FPTP is a vote for legalized theft
Voters in BC are being given the chance to vote for a dramatic change in the way in which their representatives in the provincial government are chosen, as this article…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Taibbi interviews Bernie Sanders about the concentration of wealth in a few large financial institutions – and the importance of regulating…
Sad But True
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140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 9, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 9, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: White House Tells F.B.I. to Interview Anyone Necessary for Kavanaugh Inquiry LAX…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on NAFTA 2.0
Photo from Public Domain At midnight last night, Canada and the U.S. agreed on a new deal on NAFTA, one which would now be called the USMCA, the U.S. Mexico…
The March To Oblivion
The United Nations has just told us that we have twelve years to prevent a global catastrophe. Global warning will soon have disastrous consequences. But the U.N. report isn’t on…
Canada capitulates to Trump on trade with renegotiated NAFTA
Photo by The White House The trade deal signed by Canada with the U.S. on Sunday night is called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). If approved by the U.S. Congress,…
Here’s What Individuals can do to Help Stop Climate Change
This past week UN scientists released a statement which basically says we’re doomed unless we dramatically change our climate policies now. That sounds stressful, and it should be. So how…
“Never trust anyone over 30.”
Hearing from readers in attendance at the recent Ontario liberal gathering, most were impressed by the numbers of younger attendees. Those are the ones to rebuild and revitalize the party.…
Is This the Smoking Gun?
A powerful article in The New Yorker chronicles “back channel” online communications between Trump’s team and Russia’s Alfa Bank during the 2016 election campaign. I’m borderline computer illiterate so I’ll…