Statement by Lisa Kinsella
It’s May 1 – the first day you can register as a candidate in Toronto’s upcoming municipal election. I am a strong proponent of urging women to run for office.…
2018
10 Handy Facts About Canadian Energy that You Actually Probably Want to Know
Every day, we’re assailed with dozens of facts and figures about energy issues in Canada: how many jobs or royalties will come from a new pipeline, the annual growth rate…
National Observer Slams Canada’s Business Writers for Media Malpractice
…it is not the media’s job to assume that opinions without evidence are equal in worth to opinions which are fact-based. Or to assume that the scale and decibel level…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday May 1, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your…
Can A Giant Ferris Wheel (Or Something Even More Grand) Be Far Behind?
These must be heady times indeed for those visionaries amongst us who, when they look at hectares upon hectares of greenspace, farmland, etc. see massive value-added opportunities for another kind…
One woman every other day
That’s how many women and girls are killed in Canada so far this year. The Yonge Street massacre drove that grim number up even higher. Fifty-seven women have been killed…
The hypocrisy, it burns, it burns…
The Block on Collingwood Council can’t seem to go a week without diving into their deep, private lake of hypocrisy. Remember how they whined and snarled about the partnership last…
The Truth Will Out
David Leonhardt writes that, for most of his career, Donald Trump has been able to lie with impunity: Throughout his business and political careers, Donald Trump has had an important…
Stopping Microfibres from Entering our Ecosystem
The impact that microfibres have on our environment are little known, but new research is coming out that makes microfibres look almost as bad as microbeads (which have been banned…
The Incredible Hypocrisy of the Con Clown Tony Clement
They called Tony Clement Tony Gazebo, for building one during the G8 summit nowhere near the summit, but in the middle of his riding.Of all the scandals of the Harper…
A vote Granic Allen won’t get.
Checking out Mississauga Centre electoral district for the coming provincial election, I see I have an old friend voting there. She is 97-year old former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion. Hazel…
The final days are closer, now
It’s happening. It’s happening. WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he…
We’re robbed and federal competition agency is silent
Removing the impact of gas tax and GST, our American neighbours pay as much as 38¢ a litre less. That amounts to $23 for a 60 litre fill-up. Based on…
Think Of It As a Glacier the Size Of Britain.
Glaciers are typically an ice sheet sitting atop some hard surface, usually rock. With climate change they’ve been retreating, melting, turning that ice into runoff water that finds its way…
A Little Humour Too Much For The White House Press
The WHCD has always included a roast, so long as I can remember back to the W Bush years. Colbert’s roast of Bush is among my most favourite moments in…
The Vancouver That Might Have Been. A Tribute to the Legend, Harry Rankin.
Most Vancouverites of a certain vintage remember 1986 as the year that begat the ruin of their once magnificent city. It was the year of Expo 86, the World’s Fair…
Great. Remind Justin of How He Is So Unlike His Father.
Oh, oh, oh, feel the burn. The Tyee has published a letter Jeanne Mikita received from prime minister Trudeau’s office written 19 February, 1970. She thought so much of it…
There’s More Than a Little Trump in Trudeau
He must know he’s seen as a bit of a shitbird out here which would explain why Justin Trudeau made sure to get his ass to Vancouver to announce that…
The Many Lies of the Con Artist Andrew Scheer
As you may know, I consider Andrew Scheer to be a serial liar, a man who lies almost as much as Donald Trump does.A liar who should have a flashing…
May Day: Workers’ Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
Photo by Soman For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer…