$4.5 Billion? Try $20 Billion.
What a fitting legacy for a double dealing prime minister, a pipeline fiasco. He may not like it but Justin Trudeau’s name will forever be tied to a bitumen tube.…
2018
Bill McKibben Sums Up Trudeau in One Sentence
“In case anyone wondered, this is how the world ends: with the cutest, progressivest, boybandiest leader in the world going fully in the tank for the oil industry.” That’s how…
Faint Praise
I don’t care very much for this prime minister, Trudeau. I don’t care for his double-dealing. I’m fed up with his lying and his rank hypocrisy. That said I want…
Vote for Something, But PLEASE Vote Against Ford
Stopping a Doug Ford majority is as simple as making sure even a few votes swing away or are at least placed on or before June 7. PLEASE vote and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lambert Strether points out that standard estimates of income inequality (jarring though they are to begin with) tend to ignore the capital gains…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday May 30, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. Many couples live separate and apart “under one roof,” following…
We bought a pipeline! How the federal government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline impacts the key players in this never-ending dispute
We own a pipeline! Well, not yet. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced yesterday that the federal government plans to purchase the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline from Kinder Morgan Inc.…
Call Him By His Real Name
I hope Justin Trudeau has a vivid imagination and total recall. That way, he can revisit the fall of 2015, depicted above, a time, you may remember, when he was…
Doug Ford and the White Supremacists
Well we know he's no mango Mussolini, no Great White Superman.Just a big fat old Dougie from Etobicoke, with delusions of grandeur.But we also know that Canada's white supremacists want…
Is All That News Really Bad for You?
I did something unusual last Saturday. I took a whole day off social media.No blogging, no tweeting, no reaching into my pocket to pull out my mobile to check out…
The political pivot point of 2018.
In every election there is a point of pivot that decides the outcome. It has been fascinating listening to people across Ontario in the current campaign, learning of their concerns…
They Got Snookered
For years to come, the Liberal government’s purchase of Kinder-Morgan will be used in business schools to illustrate deeply flawed decision making. What the Liberals did yesterday was simply bad…
Need a Job? Let’s Give Jobs to Everybody!
Underemployment runs rampant in too many sectors of our economy; and this contributes to a long-term unsustainable economic system. For example, people born in the 1980s are now the brokest…
Trudeau Liberals call the opposition’s bluff and ‘nationalize’ (sort of, maybe) the Trans Mountain Pipeline
OK, so Ottawa’s going to buy the Trans Mountain Pipeline for $4.5 billion and run it as a Crown corporation. That’s a good start. (Caveats to follow.) Theoretically, it could…
Justin Ling: still an asshole
Is Justin Ling alive? Wherever he is, he’s a still a liar, striking a cheap cynic’s pose. It’s a ready substitute for having to actually believe in something. — Warren…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at play.
Bridge For Sale
Government Buys The Bridge. size / dimensions: 36″ Diameter; 980 Km long For sale: one pipeline project, in fair condition. Comes with federal approval. (subject to 15 legal challenges, but…
You May Not Like These Odds
The odds aren’t good. Three times out of four, the result is war. Such is the nature of superpower politics. Over the centuries superpowers have come and gone. There have…
Hate hits Toronto neighbourhood
Warren Kinsella, a former Liberal strategist, author and lawyer who is currently writing a book about the growth of hate groups among young people, said the posters are concerning, in…