Patrick Brown: “get me the result I want”
And guess what? They apparently did. Patrick Brown personally directed his top party officials to “get me the result I want” in a Tory nomination that has been the subject…
2018
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of February 26, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of February 26, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Who Speaks For The People?
The NRA’s Dana Loesch? Or Parkland student Delaney Tarr? You decide. Recommend this Post
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of February 26, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 26, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Lawyer Accused of Making False Statements in Russia Investigation Quebec judge should…
From Farce To Tragedy
I came upon this clip by pure happenstance. And then it hit me. In 1970, Americans turned on their televisions to laugh at the foolishness Archie spouted. Nearly fifty years…
Column: the Ontario election is in 73 days. Who’s gonna win it?
The Patrick Clown Show continues to be the biggest political story in Canada – but the biggest provincial conservative party, the Ontario PCs, are still competitive. How come? The papers…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – J.W. Mason reviews Yanis Varoufakis’ Adults in the Room with a focus on how damaging austerity was forced on Greece by other governments.…
They are killing their children in America.
It seems that Bashar al-Assad needs the Russians to help him kill children in Syria. Many world organizations have already charged al-Assad with crimes against humanity. But what about Donald…
The New Battle of Alberta
For decades, the ‘battle of Alberta’ has alluded to the intense rivalry between Calgary and Edmonton, especially on the ice or the football field. “The worst way to engage Edmontonians…
There is virtually zero Asian demand for Alberta bitumen, new Kinder Morgan analysis reveals
Artist’s rendering of proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker expansion Read this essential analysis from Mitchell Anderson in The Tyee, torpedoing the argument that Alberta needs Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain…
Why does Vic “Feel Her Up Fedeli” still have a job? Bombshell news…
Welcome to the matrix my friends. I’ve never actually seen any of the Matrix movies from start to finish, but if I understand the premise correctly the idea is that…
Trudeau in India, Part II: Canadian governments, and not just Liberals, have a history of playing footsie with bad actors
PHOTOS: A screenshot of what looks like a video of the controversial snapshot of Jaspal Atwal and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, grabbed from Twitter. The ownership of the photo is attributed…
Amarillo Police Shoot the “Good Guy With A Gun”
This is pretty much how you could imagine things would go wrong if you were caught disarming a crazed gunman before or as police arrive on the scene. Garces and…
Addressing the Pipeline Dilemma
Tying up the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the courts may be a good move politically for premier John Horgan, but as a Canadian, I must say that all this strategic…
Addressing the Pipeline Dilemma
Tying up the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the courts may be a good move politically for premier John Horgan, but as a Canadian, I must say that all this strategic…
Addressing the Pipeline Dilemma
Tying up the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the courts may be a good move politically for premier John Horgan, but as a Canadian, I must say that all this strategic…
Public Salon talk
I recently had the opportunity to give a talk at Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon in Vancouver. A great regular event hosted by the former mayor and current MLA. My talk…
The Magical Thinkers: Horgan and Kenney
I’m not sure what’s more bizarre, BC Premier John Horgan’s rationale for asking the BC Supreme Court to rule on whether BC can limit the amount of diluted bitumen flowing…
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Addresses Disruption of Anti-Racist Town Hall
On Thursday, February 22, an Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Town Hall took place at the Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto which was co-hosted by Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts,…
What Happened When a Conservative Republican Spoke Out at CPAC
Mona Charen is a lifelong Republican and has been well before she worked for Ronald Reagan. After the Gipper, she declined to work for George H.W. Bush finding him not…