Shocker: Why Jody Wilson-Raybould was knifed by Justin Trudeau
Is Justin Trudeau’s PMO corrupt? And did they punish the first female indigenous leader for refusing to go along with a dirty deal for their cronies? This Globe and Mail…
February 2019
Napalm sticks… #nlpoli
The latest poll from MQO is being reported as a statistical tie by NTV , while CBC says it shows a “neck and neck” race between the PCs and Liberals.…
February 2019 Bits and Bites
You know, the reactionary Yellow Vesters really are doing a poor job of vetting their supporters…. unless the presence of neo-Nazis is a feature and not a bug (spoiler: it…
#SaveSTC: Does Saskatchewan Have a Developed Economy Still?
In the days around the time @SKGov shut down STC, I was on the phone with Greyhound Canada (PR people in Texas), trying to get an answer for why they…
Eye of the Beholder, a mystery by Edmonton’s Janice MacDonald, returns to top of Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestseller List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 3, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Could The Monarch Butterfly Be Making a Comeback?
I remember wading ashore six years ago, at a place called Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands, and coming across an amazing sight.Thousands of monarch butterflies clustered on a couple…
Election 2019 and the Con Carbon Tax Deniers
As everybody knows Andrew Scheer and his climate change denying Cons are on a crusade to try to destroy the Liberal government's carbon tax plan.A tax Scheer blames for everything,…
The Politician We Aspire To Be
Being involved in politics for over a decade, one gets to have many great experiences and gets to know many amazing people. I know that’s the case for me, and…
RIP Paul
Paul Dewar died on Gord Downie’s birthday. There is certain type of irony to that, as both men died from the same illness. Paul Dewar was an idealist, he was…
Breaking the Backs of America’s Farmers, One Bankruptcy at a Time
When Trump launched his trade wars he didn’t pay much attention to those Americans likely to become his collateral damage. Among those were America’s farmers. According to the Wall Street…
RIP, Paul Dewar
A great Parliamentarian, and a great Ottawan. He will be missed.
That 1.5 Degree Celsius Target? Gone by 2023.
Who can forget those halcyon days in late 2015 when Justin Trudeau and Cathy McKenna swept into the Paris climate summit, helping to set the goal of holding global warming…
Phoenix, We Have A Problem
“The building and implementation of Phoenix was an incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight… Overall, we found that there was no oversight of the Phoenix project, which allowed Phoenix…
Donald Trump’s Incredibly Boring State of the Union Address
I tried to think of something to say about Donald Trump's State of the Union address, but this is all I could manage:It was long, very long. His claim that…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday February 6, 2019. Today we are talking about FamilyLaw. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law…
SOTU, in 280 characters or less
I’m watching the science fiction show @startrekcbs to get myself ready for the unscientific fiction of #SOTU. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 6, 2019 I love all those Democratic women.…
Behind The Crisis
Tom Firedman writes an interesting column on what is behind the migration — and immigration — crisis around the world: In the early 21st century, climate-driven extreme weather — floods,…
Economists: Let’s all Work Less
We all work too much. Indeed, millennials are the hardest working generation due to structural effects of poor policy from preceding generations (like the 2008 crash and encouraging rent seeking…
A nation in a state of stasis.
A nation in stasis is a state that can neither move forward nor back as the forces in play remain equal and opposed. And this is the State of the…