2018
If We Can’t Learn to Live With Our Planet, We Can’t Continue to Live On It.
We have some serious problems to address. How we respond to those problems will determine how human civilization goes forward or even collapses. So, what’s it going to be? It’s…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday July 26, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. When a person dies in Ontario, and the next…
New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan may be in the eye of a global heat storm, but shouldn’t use that as an excuse to keep contributing to increasingly-dangerous climate change. For further…
Vancouver Park Board approves landmark audit into past actions and colonial roots
Truth telling is the first step towards reconciliation, says park board chair Clare Hennig · CBC News · Posted: Jul 24, 2018 The area that is now called Stanley Park…
Thoughts on the aftermath
From next week’s Hill Times column: Everyone plays their assigned role, like we are trapped in some grim kabuki play that always, always ends the same way. The gun nuts…
Trump Likes To Break Things
Yesterday, the president of the European Commission met with Donald Trump. Jean-Claude Juncker had an unenviable task — trying to convince Trump that the European Union is a good idea.…
Patching the health care problems.
With former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins helping the federal government and Doug Ford tearing into the make-do solutions in Ontario, we might be in more trouble in adding pharmacare…
Truth
Oh, Billy. We don’t actually practice these things. We only preach them.
Nothing has changed since February except that Canada now really does own the Trans Mountain Pipeline – so keep it public!
If the Trans Mountain Pipeline is so essential to the economic wellbeing of Canada and the price of Alberta bitumen is going to rise dramatically as a result of our…
Perennial Audreys fiction bestseller Billy-Ray Belcourt leads again with This Wound is a World
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended July 22, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
When it comes to Sandra Jansen, it’s a grudge match for the UCP
It was supposed to be an event highlighting an effort to recruit more conservative women into politics in Alberta, but it was overshadowed by the news that former Prime Minister…
There Really Is Life After Hate Part III
In light of events over the past several days, I thought this would be another apropos time for some hope as well: Deprogramming 101: Proving Fear and Narratives Wrong I…
Perennial Audreys fiction bestseller Billy-Ray Belcourt leads again with This Wound is a World
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended July 22, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Beat the heat at Vancouver beaches, parks, and community centres
July 25 2018 “We continue to look for ways to help people stay cool during this spell of heat and we hope that people will take advantage of the extended…
Scotland, Canada, and the Con Trumpling Invasion
If the weather in the Scottish highlands hadn't been so perfect, I might have written something in the last three weeks. Especially since somebody once said that if you want…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday July 25, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) assist Ontario Courts in…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading… – Thomas Torslov, Ludvig Wier and Gabriel Zucman examine the shifting of corporate profits to tax havens – and the false promise that corporate…