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February 2019
Face it Liberals, the Fix is In.
The best argument I have heard in defence of SNC-Lavalin and how this government jury-rigged the criminal code is that it’s too big to fail. The people of Quebec, we’re…
Review: The Lost History of Liberalism
This is an academic history of liberalism, in the form of what it calls a "conceptual history" – that...
The Sad End Of The Mars Rover Opportunity
Ever since I was I was a boy, I have been fascinated with robots, and today I have quite a collection of battery operated ones.Little and not so little ones…
The Green New Deal Isn’t Radical. What We’ve Done to The Earth Is.
America’s Green New Deal initiative is running into pushback from those who denounce it as “radical.” We’ve come to understand radical to mean something reckless, scary even dangerous. It actually…
Review: The Lost History of Liberalism
This is an academic history of liberalism, in the form of what it calls a “conceptual history” – that is, it explores what its proponents (and to a certain extent…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 14, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
The Standing Cowards on Justice and Human Rights
A bit of next week’s Hill Times column: The cowards included the House of Commons committee that professes to be all about “justice and human rights,” but doesn’t espouse either.…
It’s About Quebec
When you work through the sound and fury, Alan Freeman writes, the SNC-Lavalin Affair is all about Quebec: SNC-Lavalin is one of those homegrown success stories. Its predecessor firm built…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Jackson presents a new Ipsos survey showing that the majority of American workers face stress issues at work. And Arthur White-Crumley…
Just Who Was The DPA Enacted To Help?
If you watch the following interview with law professor Jennifer Quaid, you will find her take on the Omnibus Bill provision for the DPA (deferred prosecution agreement) that SNC-Lavalin salivates…
Ford Follies.
This entertainment is settling in for a long run. Ontario premier Doug Ford and his ensemble are enjoying their reviews. You cannot help but compare the show to the old…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Don’t worry, even with a fair minimum wage, you can take your sweetie to a restaurant tonight!
Readers whose hearts are breaking at Restaurants Canada’s tale of woe supposedly caused by increases in the minimum wage and other calamities can take some Valentine’s Day comfort from the…
A Political Mushroom Cloud
An atomic usually bomb expands its destructive range outward, so it is perhaps understandable that Mr. Trudeau does not yet realize he has unleashed a weapon of mass destruction whose…
SNC-Lavalin and the Death of the NDP in Quebec
In my last post I explained why the Con attack on SNC-Lavalin and its workers was going to cost them most of the few seats they have in Quebec.And will…
Shade Instead of Sunshine
Today Canada was watching closely at a bit of drama that unfolded in certain committee room in downtown Ottawa. Calling an emergency meeting of a House of Commons Committee is…
Two politicians who call investigations into alleged criminal activity by their political friends “a witch hunt”
Left: Donald Trump. Right: Randy Boissonnault.
Don’t vote for these MPs in October.
Here are the Liberal MPs who voted to gag @Puglaas – and who voted to protect their masters in PMO from #LavScam. Let them know what you think. They should…
Full #LavScam coverup in effect
And @nathancullen’s amendment is…voted down by #LPC members. They don’t want to hear from @Puglaas or the alleged wrongdoers in their PMO. What an utter disgrace. #LavScam #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/aOWuvpcNY8 —…
When It Comes to Talk Radio, This Guy Is a Rock Star.
If you can access LBC, “Leading Britain’s Conversation” radio, you can catch this guy, James O’Brien. I’ve not heard anything remotely like this in Canada. Here, O’Brien, with the rapier…