BC First Nations Take Trudeau to the Wood Shed
That’s what we need. Something else to sour the relationship between British Columbia’s First Nations and the sitting government in Ottawa. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs is rallying to…
February 2019
She had no choice
Jody Wilson-Raybould is a decent, honest, honourable person. Unlike many of the little creeps we’ve been hearing from, anonymously, for the past few days. She spoke truth to power. She…
Why the Fake Scandal Is Just A Grotesque Farce
I'm still having a really hard time trying to make sense of that fake scandal, the one that has Andrew Scheer's Cons and their media stooges in a feverish state,…
Hey, Trudeau Didn’t Start this Political Meddling With Justice.
Justin Trudeau is responsible for sneaking that corporate diversion authority in a 500-page omnibus bill. That was underhanded. That doesn’t make him some monster, an outrageous abuser of Canadian values.…
Jody Resigns, Lawyers Up
This won’t calm Trudeau’s waters. ex-Justice Minister Jody has resigned from cabinet. In a statement issued Tuesday morning, Wilson-Raybould announced she submitted her resignation as Minister of Veterans Affairs and…
Breaking News! Wilson-Raybould Has Resigned
You can read her official announcement here. Recommend this Post
Cold Blue
A very Cold Blue Heron
A Political Thumb On the Scales of Justice
In today’s Toronto Star veteran columnist, Tom Walkom, writes that it’s now lawful for Canadian politicians to influence judicial proceedings. Trudeau slipped that authority into a 500-page omnibus bill trusting…
Enforcing Environmental Laws can Save the Planet
Nations around the world have been putting more and more environmental protection laws on the books. This has been good to see. However, with many new things it takes awhile…
#LavScam questions. I have plenty.
I have questions. We know, from the Globe and Mail, that it was the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada, one Gerald Butts, who met with the Attorney-General…
Think You Don’t Live On a Spaceship?
If humankind ever does establish a settlement on another planet the colonists will have to grow food. When they do it will look something similar to this: But this farm…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday February 12, 2019. Today we are talking about Employment Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Keith Stewart writes about the determination of the oil industry to push people to vote for environmental destruction. But as an alternative,…
Big Man, Small Brain
Doug Ford has taken an axe to education spending in Ontario. He has killed Ontario’s new French university. He’s ended free tuition to students of limited means. And now under…
Will Climate Collapse the Economy? Sure It Will.
Climate change is many things. Among them, it’s a great disrupter. We are by now too familiar with scenes of torrential floods, withering droughts, crippling Polar Vortex winter storms that…
Trump and Trudeau fail Venezuela.
Venezuela’s oil-based economy continues to collapse. The Americans are helping it collapse. And what the Canadian interest is, defies imagination. The corrupt and destructive Nicolás Maduro regime in the country,…
Now, about that unconstitutional dog that ate Stephen Mandel’s homework …
It’s time for something completely different: a podcast! Don’t worry, it’s not mine. We’re not about to start podcasting here at AlbertaPolitics.ca, where old-timey newspaper columns that have a beginning,…
"LavScam" – Gee, That Sounds Like "AdScam"
I don’t know who coined the term “LavScam” to describe the SNC-Lavalin controversy but it does bring back memories of a real Liberal scandal during the government of a fellow…
Horror Vacui
When it comes to the world that we live in, it’s amazing how some principles from one field remain very true in others. In regards to politics the world over,…
Kenny Controls the Narrative, Why is this a Surprise?
We’ve been so focused on Jason Kenney’s public rhetoric that we didn’t see him transform the Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose MLAs into a bunch of hush puppies ready to recite…