Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner and Glen Weyl highlight how the economy as a whole suffers when employers exercise too much control over wages…
2018
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 9, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 9, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Star’s lawyers make opening arguments in case to end secrecy in Ontario…
Is History Repeating Itself?
The federal government’s plan to deal with climate change is running into stiff head winds — partly because many Canadians don’t believe the science. Andrew Coyne writes: Fully 40 per…
Canada’s Venezuela sanctions inflict hardship, endorse right wing elite
Photo by Carlos Díaz In terms of foreign policy damage, whatever harm Justin Trudeau did by parading around India in colourful outfits is a nothing-burger compared to the severe hardship…
The Kids Are Alright
You may note that in the title of this post, I chose the informal version of all right, lest there be any doubt about the ideology of many young people…
Column: faithlessness
Ah, ye little Faith. Not that little, actually. She’s tallish, slouching near the doors at Sun News Network, chain-smoking. Smirking. “Troll with a tan,” someone at the erstwhile network said…
Even More Research that Raising Minimum Wage is Good for Everyone
Haters keep telling us that minimum wage is too high, which is really saying they would love free labour for private profits. Those haters are also not thinking about the…
Getting to know Doug Ford.
It takes time. Over the next six to eight weeks, more and more Ontario voters will start to think seriously about the June 7 provincial election. To many, it will…
Spin, bias, or just wrong? #nlpoli
If four media outlets all reported a story in precisely the same way despite some fairly obvious factual problems with their interpretation, is it spin, bias, or just a mistake?…
Inevitable change
This weekend, Kinder Morgan Canada Limited (KML) suspended all “non-essential activities and related spending” on its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. They blamed “continued actions in opposition to the project.” That’s…
Kinder Morgan threatens to pull plug on Trans Mountain Pipeline; Alberta goes wild
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley in an old file photo of the author’s. Below: Opposition leader Jason Kenney, B.C. Premier John Horgan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and a famous flag…
Episode 9: Rachel Notley, Jason Kenney and 12 months until the next election
This episode includes exclusive interviews with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Official Opposition leader Jason Kenney. Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman asked both leaders a few questions they thought would…
Kinder Morgan drops a Sunday afternoon bombshell in the never-ending Trans Mountain Pipeline dispute
“Alberta is prepared to do whatever it takes to get this pipeline built” – Rachel Notley It was a busy Sunday afternoon in Alberta politics. We appear to have reached…
Let’s suspend every federal service in BC. Perhaps Horgan will get it, then.
Canadians expect you to act like one. Not a coward who is beholden to three Green Party members. But that’s what you are. #cdnpoli #bcpoli https://t.co/ZkLK1RghVk — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
New Blogsite URL – change your bookmarks for Scott’s Diatribes.
Just an administrative notice: I have changed my domain server after having been on canflag.com for basically a decade. I want to thank the owner of that domain for his…
The Attack on Gay-Straight Alliances Continues
Last week the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) brought a court application challenging the constitutionality of changes to the School Act which are intended to support the establishment of…
About Hospitals … and Ian Brodie
So, this week Albertans were treated to a column from Ian Brodie on the subject of building hospitals. Mr. Brodie is a former Harper advisor, so we shouldn't be too…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Michael Savage discusses new projections showing that the luckiest 1% could control two-thirds of the world’s wealth in a little more than…
reading can make you a better person. here’s evidence.
Celebrate #EmpathyDay with a good book. Last year, a prosecutor in the US state of Virginia asked a judge to hand down an unusual sentence. Five teens had defaced a…
Anything But Dull
Jamie Watt is a Conservative strategist — one of the gurus who guided Mike Harris’ government in Ontario. I generally don’t agree with what he has to say. But his…