His Nose In His Navel
Jason Kenny has coined a new phrase and is milking it for all its worth. The enemy, Kenny declares, is “the green left.” The reason for his bombast, Michael Harris…
2018
Our ‘Pollyanna’ foreign minister.
You have to be very gullible to believe the statements Canada’s foreign minister Chrystia Freeland has been making after each of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) sessions. It…
Gordie’s funeral was today
It was uplifting and unbelievably sad, all at the same time. Jim Watson and I eulogized our friend, or tried to. I was okay, until the end. It was hard.…
Canada backs foreign investor rights to shield mining industry: Book
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria during a bi-lateral meeting in Paris (OECD/Flickr CC Licence) Canada’s controversial mining sector may be the driving force behind the…
Strategic voting in the 1999 Ontario election failed to defeat the PCs. Can it work in 2018?
Two Ontario Elections The Mike Harris PC government went to the polls on June 3, 1999, having been elected to a majority government in June 1995. One striking curiosity about…
Mass Hysteria Grips the United Nations Security Council
Cartoon from Public Domain The deadly recurrence of Russophobia bears comparison to the psychosis of the Salem witch trials, several centuries ago, and with the pathology of McCarthyism in the…
Free and Accessible Transit Now
Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Transit and general mobility…
The anti-Semitism offensive orchestrated against Jeremy Corbyn
Britain’s opposition leader should have plenty on his plate at the moment, but Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is spending much of his time instead putting out fires as he is…
May 9: To Trump, Britain says…
….”Liar, Liar, pants on fire” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/09/uk-will-not-follow-trump-in-ditching-iran-deal-boris-johnson-vows Now, get this. Trump says he has evidence, compelling evidence, that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons. What the British government is saying, in…
Our We Now Going to Crowdsource Our Legal System?
The issue of lawyers and their money has been a constant tussle. There is a mess of policy aspects involved. Contingency fees, cash, in-kind payments, pro-bono work. In medieval times…
Benny and Steve: The Bromance Continues
Well it wasn't exactly Romeo and Juliet, or even Romeo and Julius.But the bromance between Stephen Harper and Benjamin Netanyahu was something to behold…Read more »
He’s Back! Monbiot Returns to Action.
It’s been a while but it seems George Monbiot’s ordeal with prostate cancer and the brutal surgery that ensued may be over. I won’t excerpt it. You can read it…
So, Let’s Get this Straight.
Trump, despite the advice and warnings of America’s security/intelligence agencies and his country’s major allies, gives in to Netanyahu’s propaganda campaign against Iran, and walks away from the Iran nuclear…
Last Call for Charlie Dickens.
The ranks of the permanent underclass are, shall we say, swelling. The ladders of social mobility in the post-war era are being pulled up and not just in the Third…
New column day
Here, on how Canada is falling further behind the rest of the world on ensuring corporate transparency and recovering income stashed offshore. For further reading…– Transparency International’s most recent report…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michal Kalecki discusses how full employment shifts the balance of power from corporations to workers. Roland Kupers reminds us that inequality is…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 10, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A last will can leave instructions for who will…
This Should Make Us Cringe
Yes, unfortunately this is the face of Canada too. The woman identified by Lethbridge News Now as Kelly Pocha from Cranbrook, B.C., told the news site the men “were kind…
The World At The Roulette Table
The Iran Nuclear deal bears the official acronym JCPOA — short for Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Donald Trump torpedoed JCPOA two days ago. The rationale for his decision, Jonathan…
Costa Rica to Ban use of Fossil Fuels
Back in 2015 Costa Rica ran on only renewable energy for the first quarter of the year, and since then they have improved. The country now regularly runs their power…