Eating up the Hill: Mixed Grill at Paramount Fine Foods
For those who keep Halal, the opening of a franchise of the popular Toronto-based chain Paramount Fine Foods at the Rideau Centre is a welcome sight. It’s a needed addition…
2018
My Irony Meter just exploded
Apologies.
We Spoke to Consultants Forced to Alter Their Work to Benefit Industry on How to Fix Canada’s Broken Environmental Laws
In 2015, a pipeline was designed to cut through a sensitive wetland in B.C. The professional biologist reviewing the project told his company that there could be significant damage to…
Pollara’s Don Guy: Horwath’s NDP “has a lot of room to grow,” Wynne’s Liberals “aren’t even close to bottom yet”
That’s a quote from Dalton McGuinty’s campaign genius Don Guy. Abacus just found something similar – PCs down 5, NDP up 5, Libs going nowhere. Here’s Don – who, full…
How to Kill Off Neoliberalism
It’s become the endless struggle of progressive thinking, how to kill off neoliberalism. As John Ralston Saul discussed in “The Collapse of Globalism,” neoliberalism is just another ideology, another belief/faith…
Foggy Morning in La Jolla
La Jolla, California Beach Master
Surely, An Idea Whose Time Has Come
I wonder what is stopping the wider propagation of this technology: Recommend this Post
Winner of the 2018 Galbraith Prize in Economics: Jim Stanford
The Progressive Economics Forum is pleased to announce Jim Stanford as the winner of the 2018 Galbraith Prize in Economics. The selection committee included Fletcher Baragar (Manitoba), Hassan Bougrine (Laurentian),…
On full pictures
I’ve previously pointed out the obvious bad faith behind the Saskatchewan Party’s attempt (PDF) to monetize existing agricultural practices as a substitute for actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions – and…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Luke Savage comments on Justin Trudeau’s phony war against inequality: His embrace of Keynesian economics has been equally ethereal. In 2015, apparently rebelling…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of May 7, 2018
140Law: Here are our top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of May 7, 2018. For links, vist 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of May 7, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 7, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: How much marijuana is too much? Legalization means new questions for police…
The Regina Manifesto (1933): Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Adopted by the founding convention in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933. The CCF is a federation of organizations whose purpose is the establishment in Canada of a Co-operative Commonwealth in which…
Super Marx!
Photo by David Jones Happy Birthday, Karl! Few people in history have had the kind of global impact that Karl Marx has had and continues to have. 200 years after…
How to win tonight’s #ONpoli debate
What not to do. From The War Room, available at all fine bookstores near you: That’s Big Truth number one. Here’s Big Truth number two: make certain that the story…
An I.Q. Test
Michael Harris writes that the Ontario election is an I.Q. test for voters. And the question is, “What will voters do with a tired government that has been around for…
Modern Shipping Uses Sails
The shipping industry recently agreed to care about the environment and this led the Guardian to examine how the industry will change. Here at Things Are Good we’ve been keeping…
Admirably true to their Iron Age code, UCP delegates defy their leaders and the zeitgeist
Modern Conservatives indeed! The Wildrose Party base – by which I mean the United Conservative Party base, they are the same people – is a wild horse that cannot be…
Column: my Hill Times story about Gordie
Gordie. That’s what we called him – or I did, at least. When someone has been one of your closest friends for almost four decades, calling him anything else didn’t…