What Are the Top Three Things You Expect From the Trudeau Government in 2018?
As the government of Justin Trudeau sails into the third year of its mandate this would be a good time to reflect on the most important expectations we have of…
2018
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 2, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 2, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Judge: Plastic surgery wrongly denied for three NYC HIV patients Age-bias…
Ralph Nader’s Post-Mortem for America
An increasing number of progressives have been coming forward lately to pronounce the “of the people, by the people, for the people” America dead. What had been criticisms now become…
It’s Called "Climate Gentrification"
The term is used to differentiate coastal properties by their elevation above sea level. After all, there aren’t many homeowners keen to share their livingroom with the ocean, right? Particularly…
Defending Democracy.
You would think in all the many years of human social development that democracy should have gained support and growing wide-spread usage around the world. We certainly agree that it…
Bridging to Nowhere… or not #nlpoli
Since December 2015, Dwight Ball has been talking about the federal government as the source of cash he wants to tap into. Specifically he has been talking a lot about…
Good bye and good riddance 2017
The Last moon of 2017 Onwards to 2018. May it surpass the low bar set by 2017.
2018, day one
Started to go through my smart editor’s edits for NEW DARK AGES in the @XPUNKBOOK series today but I kept getting the pizza wheel of death so I fell asleep…
New year, new writing practice
It’s an arbitrary division, but even so, like many other people, as one year draws to a close and another begins, I like to spend a bit of time in…
A New Year Offers New Opportunities
One of the reasons that a new year excites people, I suppose, is that it offers a psychological opportunity to start anew. Our personal world beckons with a fresh slate…
The Almost Fatal Year of 2017 and the Hope of 2018
It's hard to believe. The year 2017 is finally over, and we're still here. But although just about everyone I know seems to heaving a giant sight of relief, and…
A potpourri of New Year wishes.
This writer’s New Year’s resolution is, as always, to never make a resolution. Each year is another adventure. It is an opportunity to discover and to learn. We have a…
New Year’s bitter Twitter attacks on fact-checking economists suggest UCP will try to make 2018 the Year of the Big Chill
PHOTOS: University of Alberta economist and professor Andrew Leach. Below: Calgary-Fish Creek United Conservative Party MLA Richard Gotfried (Photo: Mr. Gotfried’s Facebook page), UCP Leader Jason Kenney, and University of…