2018
Well, It’s a Start.
Adios, Canada. It may not sound like much but when you can move 31,285 sq. kms. of rocks and Christmas trees the width of a pencil in a matter of…
Mueller Seeks Immunity for Manafort Witnesses
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has asked the judge who will preside over the fraud trial of Paul Manafort to grant immunity to five witnesses who may be called to testify…
Reported As a "Road Rage" Incident, Vicious Assault May Have Been Racially Motivated
Early this morning, Muhammed Abu Marzouk was severely beaten by two men in a Mississauga parking lot. His wife and a friend were also assaulted in front of the the…
Power from the powerful
Politically connected individuals took advantage of citizens’ desire for clean, renewable energy and the Liberals wrote contracts with “lucky firms” that bore no relationship to market prices, guaranteed massive private…
Those Summertime Blues
Canada, like America (only a bit different), is heating up. Summer days are getting hotter. Summer nights are getting hotter still. Demands on power grids for air conditioning are soaring.…
Pot-Kettle Alert. The US is Taking Canada to the World Trade Organization.
They slapped tariffs on Canadian exports. Canada responded with countervailing tariffs on American exports. What? The nerve! So now the Americans are planning to haul Canada before the World Trade…
How German News Covered Trump’s NATO Visit
And who says the Germans have no sense of humour?
Very Model Of A Very Stable Genius
Randy Rainbow updated this song, and it’s genius. Really.
July 17: Wealth and Greed.
This will be a short blog – if it ever gets finished at all. My computer has been going strange on me. Sites that I need don’t respond. A full…
Tuesday Morning LInks
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Wilt examines how Canada lets the corporate sector get away with paying far less than a fair price for our natural…
What Kathleen Wynne is owed
Steve Paikin is a nicer guy than me. As seen here, he is urging people to forgive Kathleen Wynne’s disappearance from the legislature. I am not so forgiving. The Ontario…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday July 17, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that certain terms of an employment contract…
The new world disorder
This morning, Putin again viewed a map of the five places he plans to annex next: Eastern Ukraine, Transnistria and Gagauzia in Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia. To…
American Stupidity
America is a very stupid country. That statement must be true, Dana Milbank writes in The Washington Post, because Donald Trump keeps repeating it: He offered this opinion on at…
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I’m one of those people who suffer from motion sickness and I can confirm that it’s so unpleasant I avoid boats as much as possible. Thankfully the car company Citroën…
Trump versus Trump-Lite.
It seems that we have spent enough time by now to have taken off our sackcloth over Doug Ford and the conservatives winning the Ontario election in June. Yes, I…
Prab Gill saga seems to have legs, so UCP Leader Jason Kenney attacks environmentalist Tzeporah Berman …
Astonishingly, the Prab Gill saga appears to have legs. Yesterday, the Star Metro arm of the Toronto Star’s effort to create a national footprint, informed Alberta readers there’s no way…