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The pith and substance of the s. 33 debate, in ten pithy points
The courts should not be supreme. The people’s representatives should be. Most judges think they are smarter than all politicians. They may well be, but elected people should have the…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estate
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 13, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the great global policy failure following the 2008 finance-driven crisis was to bail out bankers alone,…
New column day
Here, on how the needless use of the notwithstanding clause is just one more of the ways in which Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party is dangerously similar to Doug Ford’s PC…
Doug Ford and the Harperite Conspiracy
It was a scene I never thought I would see in Canada. It could only happen in Doug Ford's Ontario.And it can only be called fascism.Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government…
Where’s Caroline?
That’s Bob Hepburn’s question in this morning’s Toronto Star: Mulroney, who was appointed as attorney general in June by Premier Doug Ford, is turning out to be a huge disappointment…
When Disaster Bears Down
I doubt I am alone in assuming that people who ignore mandatory evacuation orders when disaster is impending do so out of either willfulness or hubris. As the following report…
The constitutional beast is back
From next week’s Hill Times: And that, to me, is Doug Ford’s biggest problem. Not that he overturned a court decision everyone expected him to win. Not that he used…
Is ‘Lyin Brian’ Trump’s Judas goat?
We saw how former prime minister Brian Mulroney negotiated the original NAFTA. When the public service negotiators hit an impasse, Mulroney sent in finance minister Michael Wilson to replace the…
My answers to AOC
The following questions came from the local chapter of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO). They were sent to all mayoral and deputy-mayoral candidates, but I am unsure whether council…
Sarah Hoffman secures NDP nomination in Edmonton-Glenora, MLA Dave Hanson fends off two challengers in Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul
Minster of Health and Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman has been nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate in Edmonton-Glenora for the next election. Hoffman was first elected as MLA for…
The Dougtatorship notwithstanding, what have you got to fear, Mr. Scheer?
What have you got to fear, Andrew Scheer? Is there a single office-holding Conservative in this country who is willing to stand up for the fundamental rights of Canadians as…
Don’t Let America Drag Us Into Its Cesspool In the Name of Competitiveness
A disturbing report from Price Waterhouse Coopers prepared on behalf of the Business Council of Canada (the usual suspects) warns that the Trump tax cuts could put 635-thousand Canadian jobs…
A Eulogy for Rachel Notley
The Tyee’s Mitchell Anderson has penned a farewell to “The Sad, Timid Failure of Rachel Notley,” the soon to be ousted premier of Alberta. Notley, writes Anderson, came to power…
She makes children of us all’: Guardian writers pick their favourite Kate Bush lyrics
Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one,…
Paying $185,000 for each job
BC’s fossil fuel industry benefited from credits worth $902 million in fiscal year 2018 and $4.2 billion in the past five years. Each of the jobs in oil and gas…
Here Come da Judge
This is Bob Meadows, a circuit court judge from Florida. That won’t matter much to you but listen to what he wrote: Here is one American’s take on the growing…
Vancouver park board chair Stuart Mackinnon’s motion seeks to advance decolonization efforts
Travis Lupick on September 12th, 2018 When, in 1792, Capt. George Vancouver named the body of water that today flows beneath the Lions Gate Bridge the Burrard Inlet (after his…