Hate crime in Canada
As the Your Ward News hate trial is starting, this Statistics Canada finding on hate crime is revealing. And important. It’s not just Trump’s America. It’s happening here, too.
2018
Thoughts from the road: General Motors, China and Alberta, a new landscape emerges from Monday’s dust
OTTAWA Now that the dust is settling from Monday’s announcement General Motors Corp.’s last auto assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., will soon be closed, the emerging landscape is not promising…
I, Dinosaur.
While ruminating, the other day, over something brilliant to say about the pickle the politicians are in over the unkind machinations of General Motors, I was actually more concerned about…
Transit-First Pilot Project in Toronto a Success
Toronto is a city where the car reigns supreme and any suggestion of sharing the road is deemed to be a war on the car. It’s surprising then that last…
Joe Oliver and the Crazed Climate Change Deniers
I'll never forget how in the dying days of the sinister Harper regime, Joe Oliver, who was the finance minister, suddenly disappeared.And since the economy was threatening to collapse like…
Is Trump a Magnet for Scumbags?
The Miami Herald has an article on how Donald Trump’s current labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, intervened to quash a child prostitution investigation into Trump pal (and Bill Clinton and Prince…
What’s With Grewal?
Justin Trudeau is having trouble with an errant MP, a Grewal fellow who represents the riding of Brampton East. Raj Grewal has stepped down, sort of, somehow, citing personal issues…
Gordie
This was hard to read. Miss my brother.
The Browning of the Arctic
The Arctic has become increasingly less white as the Arctic sea ice melts, the tundra warms and the Greenland ice sheet retreats ever faster. In fact the Arctic is turning…
30 Minutes of FOMO a Day
We’ve heard that spending too much time on social media is detrimental to our mental health, and every year more evidence confirms that. Simply put, too much time Facebook, Twitter,…
There’s More Than Liberal Democracy in Peril from Right-Wing Populism. They’re Also Out to Derail Action on Climate Change.
Paul Krugman had it right when he denounced climate change denialists as “depraved.” And the depraved, also known as right-wing populists, will be out in force at next week’s COP24…
You Have All the Watches But We Have All the Time
It’s the Achilles’ Heel of counter-insurgency warfare, i.e. the quagmire that is modern-era Afghanistan. To win, all the insurgents need do is remain a viable military and political force when…
the move west: day nine: delta to port hardy
We are here! At our new home! Very excited! We had a reservation on the 10:15 ferry from Tsawwassen to Nanaimo, but we had to get there super early. If…
Notley’s Desperation
There’s not much Rachel Notley won’t do, it seems, to try to fend off her near inevitable loss in next year’s Alberta elections. The misery of the Athabasca Bitumen Pits…
A Powerful Voice Is Stilled
It was Henry David Thoreau who said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” Harry Leslie Smith was not part of…
Trump’s Mole Inside the Mueller Investigation?
It seems as though former Trump campaign manager and shady international operator, Paul Manafort, has chosen to bet on getting a presidential pardon after all. While Manafort was supposedly spilling…
Harry Leslie Smith RIP
He called both England and Canada home and he was an outspoken progressive voice on both sides of the Atlantic. Harry Leslie Smith has died, age 95. From his home…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law.
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 28, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – In the wake of GM’s abandonment of Oshawa, David Olive suggests that it’s time for Canada to work on developing its own signature…
Harry Leslie Smith 1923-2018
For about a week, along with hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, I have been keeping an online vigil for 95-year-old Harry Leslie Smith.Harry had been battling…