Forget the Queen, save the Magna Carta.
If the Brexit-related events in the next few months get ugly, the Brits have a plan in place to keep the Queen and her immediate family from harms way. We…
February 2019
How to Choose the Best Kitchen Contractor
The kitchen being the heart of your home, you would want to ensure that it is in perfect shape. Sometimes you might be tempted to do the remodeling thing on…
Has anyone thought about the impact regime change in Venezuela will have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty!
In the stampede by Canadian politicians of all ideological stripes to support Venezuela’s self-declared “interim president,” has anyone given even a nanosecond’s thought to the impact the handover of the…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on the U.S.’ long-overdue conversation about progressive taxes on extreme incomes and wealth – and the need for Canada to follow suit. For further reading…– Matthew Yglesias…
Leaked: legislative officers’ defence
Darryl Plecas reported on many incidents and the suspended officers of the Legislative Assembly are due to provide response on February 7. An anonymous source leaked an incomplete list of…
The Alt-Right & Radical Left: A Love Story? (10 Minute Read)
I have a confession to make and it isn't an easy one. My entries and my content over the past few years have dwindled and are diminished, which is directly…
What is the Green New Deal?
It’s been all over the news lately, partially digested, often spiced up with a double dose of spin, but what is the Green New Deal? Here it is, in its…
In Praise of Canada – and Justin Trudeau
This must seem odd coming from me but it would be unfair of me not to mention Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed in today’s New York Times, “Thank God for Canada.” The…
Review: Age of Anger
A far-ranging and clever book that convinced me of its core thesis but left me with some questions and considerable ambivalence about some of the things surrounding that. The book…
Arms Race Update
Nukes are all the rage these days. The US and Russia just trashed the IRBM or intermediate range ballistic missile treaty inked by Reagan and Gorbachev back in the good…
The Alt-Right & Radical Left: A Love Story?
I have a confession to make and it isn’t an easy one. My entries and my content over the past few years have dwindled and are diminished, which is directly…
Trudeau denies “directing” his Attorney-General. What does that mean?
This what a ministerial directive looks like. It’s from Global Affairs, but they all do it this way. It’s formal. It’s done in writing. A scared-looking Trudeau denies “directing” his…
The Cons Must Really Hate This Story
It's not always easy to love our country at this time of the year.Not when it has been so cold recently the ducks where I live have been reduced to…
Hmm, Five for Five. Is There a Message Here?
The five hottest years on record have been the last five years on record. Five for five. What’s that mean to you? NASA scientists confirmed in a report Wednesday that…
Paul Dewar
Just a brief comment today about Paul Dewar. He was a rare politician. He stood firmly for what he believed. But he could also rise above the fray. We used…
Far Less Than Meets The Eye
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly;…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 7, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Iglika Ivanova discusses how British Columbia can move toward eliminating poverty in its next budget. – Patrick Maze points out the need…
We’ve Destroyed the Planet, Let’s Leave Something Beautiful Behind
We’re presently living in the anthropocene and it’s all our fault. The effects of industrialization will be felt for thousands of years to come and be evident millions of years…
‘Dirty Thirties’ solutions for Ford.
Ontario premier Doug Ford must admire the past. His government keeps reaching back in time to the solutions of the 1930s. The latest is to return to those times when…