Canada Grants Asylum to Saudi Teen
Rahaf-al-Qunun has left Thailand aboard a Korean Air jetliner en route to asylum in Canada. A spokesperson for the UNHCR Canada said they could not talk about her case due…
January 2019
For the Sake of Canada and Our Grandkids, Justin, Deal With It.
It’s hard to place much stock in the assurances of our prime minister. He says he wants to act on climate change but he’s already thrown in the towel. Sure,…
Is This the Oceanic Time Bomb We’ve Been Warned About?
Even the Globe and CBC are now reporting that the world’s oceans set an all-time heat record in 2018, sending marine life reeling and fleeing for colder waters. Fleeing for…
So, Anything New To Report?
Well, the world becomes harder to understand. Despite my many years on this earth, the irrationality of humans is still the thing that most perplexes me. Despite the fact that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jonathan Malesic writes that while millennials may be facing the worst of an economy set up to push workers into precarity, the workforce…
Justin Trudeau’s Stirring And Scary Town Hall in Regina
I was flipping through the TV channels last night, on my way to watch the CBC News, when I came across a live broadcast of Justin Trudeau's town hall in…
Has The Con Clown Maxime Bernier Gone Off The Deep End?
It pains me to say this, but I have to admit I was wrong about Maxime Bernier. I always knew the man known as the Bobo from the Beauce was…
Socialism For Realists
I recommend reading Sam Gindin’s paper “Socialism for Realists” to be found in the current issue of the relatively new socialist journal, Catalyst. Sam spent most of his working life…
Assisted death in Canada is a failure.
In case there is a deity, I would like my final prayer to be: God, or whatever you wish to be called, it has certainly been an interesting experience visiting…
Trudeau Dodges and Weaves in Regina
Glad to join PM @JustinTrudeau at a Town Hall meeting with over a thousand participants at the @UofRegina tonight.// Je suis heureux de me joindre au PM Trudeau à une…
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq returns to top of Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List for week ended Jan. 6
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 6, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Colin McAuliffe charts the increasing share of U.S. income going to profits and the already-wealthy. And Dani Rodrik writes about the importance…
Jan. 10: Somewhere over the rainbow….
In this story, note, among other things, the pictures of ‘homes’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/garden-hill-first-nations-drinking-water-1.4907864 We wouldn’t dream of making our wealthy live in these conditions. Nor would we dream of making the…
Guest Article From Ottawa: “Yellow Vests” Ottawa Falling Apart Over Truck Convoy Police Talks
The Yellow Vest protests have so far attracted only a handful of people in Ottawa every Saturday and might very well be the most poorly attended in all Canada if…
A Further Descent Into Banana Republicanism
While the Toddller-in-Chief continues with his temper tantrum, and the American government shutdown is now in its third week, it is good to know that unpaid federal workers are not…
Scott Brison
I am and have always been a big, big fan: he was a huge help to me, personally, when one of my kids was at Dal. Very sad too see…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estate
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday January 10, 2019. Today we are talking about Will sand Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
New column day
Here, on Scott Moe’s apparent view that the only voice which deserves to be heard or amplified is that of the oil industry. For further reading…– Jie Jenny Zou is…
Jagmeet Singh and the first Kinsellian Political Rule™
The puzzle that is Jagmeet Singh: what are we to do with you, Jagmeet? Andrew Coyne has a typically thoughtful piece in today’s National Post about the erstwhile New Democratic…