New column day
Here, on how the Libs’ willingness to throw tens of billions of public dollars at the Trans Mountain pipeline (and its corporate partners) confirms the broken promise that infrastructure money…
2018
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Ryan rightly calls out the anti-choice right for having no interest in the well-being of children once they’re born: (S)mall-state ideology…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 31, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A last will cannot have provisions that run contrary…
Places Erupt Tackles Trolls in Their Newest Video
The Toronto-based band Places Erupt has put a lot of thought into the state of online discourse and decided to share their two cents. Their most recent video is all…
Why We Need To Eliminate Tax Privileges of Religious Organizations
For a very long time, religious institutions have thrived off public support in the form of tax-free status for property, incentives for food programs and deductions for donations made by…
About that huge, huge Globe investigative story: read it
Three things about this extraordinary investigative story. One, it’s behind a paywall because journalists deserve to get paid just like you are. Do you give away your goods and services…
Nathan Cullen’s Peerless Takedown Of The Hapless Justin Trudeau
Enjoy (or not, depending upon your political/philosophical/environmental orientations): Meanwhile, Star letter-writers offer some much-needed reality checks about Trudeau’s betrayal: Your editorial highlights the political risks in the Justin Trudeau government’s…
NAFTA On the Rocks
During the past year, NAFTA has been encountering ill winds and rough seas. The ill winds come from the Blow Hard-in-Chief. Peter Clark writes: The Prime Minister has used his…
Conrad loves Donald.
It is hard to think of two people more deserving of their mutual admiration. Both Conrad Black and Donald Trump think the American President is a wonderful guy. And Lord…
NDP ‘Bubble Zone Bill’ to protect abortion clinic patients and staff passes as UCP Caucus heads for hallway hideouts again
Alberta’s “Bubble Zone Bill” to protect abortion clinic patients and staff from harassment, intimidation and potential violence has been passed by the provincial Legislature. When the vote on Third Reading…
Neo-Nazi Flyers found in In the St.Clair-Bathurst area of Toronto
On May 27, we learned that these had been found in Wells Hills Park: CBC reported on this a few days later. These stickers were also found in the same…
PC Party Platform Still With Highest Deficits and Not Approved By The Party
The PC’s released a platform today outlining the costs associated on their campaign promises but failed to provide any information on how these promises would be paid for. Mike Moffatt…
Full Disclosure by former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin tops Audreys list of bestselling books
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 27, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
NDP Widens Its Base In Final Push To Election Day
A new EKOS poll released today shows the current election in Ontario in a dead heat with the NDP up slightly at 38.4%, PC’s 37.9%, Liberals at 19.1%, and the…
The Ontario NDP replaces the Liberals this year as the slayers of crappy Conservatives…
The latest CBC poll aggregation – May 30, 2018 This ongoing Ontario election campaign continues to fascinate and surprise. The latest polls are showing Andrea Horwath’s NDP either neck-and-neck with…
Reefer dumbness
Ironically enough, Kathleen Wynne has pledged to sell drugs in many more neighbourhoods than that. https://t.co/XbtcFlbvGv #onpoli https://t.co/AvEtzMSi4b — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 30, 2018 Liberals are running this ad…
#StopKM Pipeline
An important bit of historical timeline, as delivered by the very credible and courageous Elizabeth May. In the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau pledged that no project could be approved…
Top ten Wizard excuses for the Wynne Wipeout™
A week to go, and I have already started to hear some of the excuses being road-tested by the Wizard and the Board. They know they are going to lose.…
Plutarch on listening, and The Block
“e observe that… the great majority of persons …practise speaking before they have acquired the habit of listening.” Plutarch wrote that in his essay De Auditu, or On Listening. Reading…