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by Stuart Mackinnon on October 2nd, 2018 at 11:09 PMThe Straight.com The need—and the desire—for more public spaces will continue to increase as Vancouver densifies. To ensure a healthy city,…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday October 3, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. The amount of child support payable by a non-custodial parent…
Tom Friedman writes that he grew up in the 1960’s when the United States was divided over Vietnam. But what’s going on now is much worse than the divisions of…
One of the first things François Legault said, after he won the Quebec election, was this: François Legault, the premier-designate of Quebec, says he will invoke the notwithstanding clause to…
And here we thought the Christian Bible was there to forecast the End of Times. The Donald Trump administration in Washington has taken over in the forecasting business. They appear…
The urban heating effect is a very real threat to how we cool our cities. The concentration of cement and machinery generates and stores a lot of heat that natural…
It has been a little over a week since Faith Goldy and her dude-bro sycophants took their selfie with Ontario Premier Doug Ford: One of those in the photo, "Jack…
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The New York Times is dismembering Donald Trump’s claim to be a “self made man” who built an empire with his own hard work and his own money. It turns…
She was a small cat. At first we thought she might be not much older than six or eight months, but no, we were assured, she was fully grown. Just…
Once there was a Queen. She reigned over many lands, in the manner of constitutional monarchies with their own parliamentary systems based largely, if not wholly, on the parliament of…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/canada-usmca-1.4845494 Trudeau and Freeland have to smile at the U.S. free trade deal. To be honest and admit that they were bullied into it would cost the Liberals the next…
Sitting in traffic is no fun and neither is being hit by a car. To solve both of these problems cities around the world are changing their intersections using colourful…
Next summer, you can enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine at English Bay and Kitsilano Beach as part of a two-year seasonal pilot. Cheryl Chan Updated: October…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Laurie MacFarlane writes that flows of income and wealth have everything to do with bargaining power and social decision-making, rather than productivity…
And it happened partly because we had a great leader who was humble enough to know when his time was up, and a campaign manager who did not believe winning…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday October 2, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards…
It’s disconcerting to see how conservatives tout ideas — until other people implement them. Then they go on a tear and furiously reject them. Mitt Romney developed a health insurance…
Tens of thousands of new Long-Term Care (LTC) beds needed just to offset aging The new Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has promised 30,000 new long-term care beds over the…
