140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 26, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 26, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: CNN asks for hearing after Trump threatens to revoke Acosta’s press pass…
November 2018
Alberta Dishonours Itself
As much as I may strive to be a critical thinker, sometimes things happen that tempt me to succumb to certain stereotypes. Take, for example, the notion that many Albertans…
Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau hate each other’s guts. And that makes sense.
Photo credit: Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford, seen together in happier times. That’s what newspaper editors always write when publishing a photo of a couple who have (a) just announced…
the move west: day seven: calgary alberta to sicamous british columbia
It’s very exciting to be past the mountains and in BC! We’re having a really good time. It feels like we’re on some kind of weird vacation where we don’t…
From Freedom To Fascism
Chris Hedges writes that neoliberalism has always been an absurd idea: Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as…
Would you pay the Montreal ad agency Cossette $500,000 for a logo?
The government of Canada did. For the half-million bucks, they got the logo and a name and some letterhead, apparently. For – and this is the part that should make…
Please no
They let me write another thing: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/worst-christmas-gifts-1.4917150
Biting the hand with the handouts.
We have warned Justin Trudeau repeatedly that those so-called independent senators are going to bite him on the bum. Blame him for all those Christmas presents that Canada Post cannot…
Alberta politicians need to tread carefully when they comment on the coming job losses at GM Canada in Oshawa
We don’t yet know why General Motors Corp. has decided to walk away from its last auto-assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., which CTV reported last night the Detroit-based company will…
There Really Is Life After Hate Part V
ARC continues the series from our regular contributor. Other articles in the series can be found here: Status of ARC Collective Onward There Really Is Life After Hate Part I:…
Calgary Wins Grey Cup!!
Congrats to the Calgary Stampeders for their Grey Cup win tonight! On a personal level my total boycott of the National Football League remains solid. One thing I am really…
Albertans Aren’t Feeling the Love
Last week Ms Soapbox wrote an article for CBC in which she called out the hypocrisy of the energy industry and various conservatives who want the Alberta government to impose…
When Politicians Become Habituated to Windfall Revenues, Nothing Good Comes of It
The oil and gas provinces of Canada – Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. and Newfoundland (okay, okay, “and Labrador”) – are places where politicians dream of easy money. All they need do…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews Christo Aivalis’ The Constant Liberal, and discusses how Justin Trudeau is continuing a family tradition of betraying progressive voters:…
Tough act(s) to follow
Hey! Look at the famous folks I get to hang with at the OREA conference tomorrow!
The Toll of the Gig Economy
From an article in today’s New York Times by Ruth Whippman: “Buying, promoting or sharing your friend’s “thing” is now a tax payable for modern friendship. But this expectation becomes…
Eating up the Hill: A Newfoundland shed party
Any Atlantic Canada-themed parties are always ones to circle on your Parliamentary reception circuit calendar, so the Newfoundland Shed Party got an early RSVP from me, and drew me up…
This Is War
Doug Ford’s government has declared war on the environment. It has systematically dismantled the previous government’s environmental policies. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Welcome to Ontario’s upside down world of global…
the move west: day six: swift current saskatchewan to calgary alberta
Greetings from Mountain Time! I had a friend from Denver who always said Mountain was the forgotten time zone. He may have been right: we forgot about the hour time…
Doppelgangers don’t do it.
There is a tendency among political leaders to have someone very much like themselves to serve as their chief of staff. It gives them confidence that the person will react…