Will Canada Miss the (Electric) Bus?
Electric buses are making a real—and rapidly growing—dent in emissions: as Bloomberg reported, electric buses will displace 270,000 barrels of diesel a day by the end of this year. But…
March 2019
Has the 737 Max 8 Become Boeing’s Ford Pinto?
Customers are canceling their orders for Boeing’s 737 Max 8 following the loss of two of the jetliners that crashed into the ground after a technical malfunction. The Ford Motor…
JWR is playing chess, and she always wins
The other side play checkers – and always lose. Because she’s smarter than they are. Oh, and to mix my metaphors, and like I always say: the truth is like…
Wise Law Roundtable – Stop and Drop the StopSOP Slate of Bencher Candidates
Commentaries from Wise Law’s lawyers on current cases of interest Garry J. Wise: I’ll begin with a bit of background. Every Ontario lawyer and paralegal is required to create and…
Being Better By Doing Better
Being Métis working in political Ottawa is an experience that can be trying at times. Let’s face facts, there aren’t many Indigenous peoples who work in Canadian political circles and…
New column day
Here, on how the federal Liberals and provincial Saskatchewan Party are both unduly concerned with optics around “balance” rather than budgeting for the good of their constituents. For further reading…–…
A Very Pungent Odour
H/t Theo Moudakis The source of that pervasive and rank smell bedeviling Ontario has been found. It is coming from an array of spineless politicians in the Ford government who,…
The Filibuster That Showed Why The Cons Are Unfit To Govern
After a voting marathon that ran non-stop for more than 30 hours the Con filibuster ended early this morning.It failed to achieve its objective of forcing the Liberals to allow…
Sour Grapes
It’s time, Susan Delacourt writes, to know the full story behind the SNC-Lavalin Affair. It has sucked all of the air out of the room: The saga of former justice…
“Penny for the Guy, Gov?”
By this November five, Guy Fawkes Day, one really wonders at what the value of the Brit Pound might be on world markets? It used to be a Brit tradition…
The Prodigal Roughneck returns – Bernard the Roughneck throws his hardhat into the ring for FCP in Grande Prairie
The good news for Alberta’s Freedom Conservative Party is that it’s recruited a national figure as one of its candidates. The bad news for the FCP may be the national…
Hey, Jody and Jane, why don’t you just break the law. We Star writers are bored.
Hate to sound like a guy who teaches at a law school and all that, but I am and I do. And so, Judy Sgro and Susan Delacourt and others:…
Is Jody Wilson-Raybould Really After Justin Trudeau’s Job?
I've been trying very hard to ignore Jody Wilson-Raybould and her best buddy Jane Philpott, because like most Canadians I'm sick to death of the fake scandal.Which in my opinion…
Paul Fromm on Christchurch Manifesto: "I would agree with 95% of it" (and other racist ramblings)
NOTE: This is from ARC’s newest writer, officially making the ARC Collective actually a collective again. Those following along this week know that Paul Fromm is being investigated for publishing…
March 21: I don’t like this one, either. But this is reality.
This morning, I awoke early to get busy on the blog. But it wouldn’t work. Most of my text was off the screen. As well, tiny problems kept interrupting. Eventually,…
Cowichan Conversations Is Back Online
Our server advised that a major MySQL crash caused any site powered by databases to go down. We have been restoring all the files but it takes a long time.…
winter drive: alice lake loop
A few weeks ago, we took a scenic drive known as the Alice Lake Loop. We read there were various short hikes and natural attractions along the way. We may…
ICYMI, cont’d…
As stated in my previous post, the next few posts will cover various statements, letters, etc. released on SNC-Lavalin’s website that the Canadian media have, for whatever reason, ignored, and…
ICYMI!
ICYMI! The next few posts will cover various statements, letters, etc. released on SNC-Lavalin’s website that the Canadian media have, for whatever reason, ignored, and continue to ignore… SNC-Lavalin released…
Is Justin Trudeau on the ropes as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister?
Here is the latest regarding former Treasury Board President Jane Philpott’s determination to shine light on the processes and background that ignited the SNC Lavalin scandal. Is Justin Trudeau on…