Two Days Running, The Guardian Editorial Slams Theresa May
Theresa May’s televised address to the nation last night left a lot of people scratching their heads. Why, when she so needs support in the House of Commons, would she…
March 2019
Climate Change Going to Start Hitting You In Your Pocketbook
Few understand the reality of climate change better than the insurance industry and one of the industry’s biggest re-insurers, Munich Re, says people will soon have to pay a lot…
Trump – US to Recognize Israeli Sovereignty Over Illegally Occupied Golan Heights
Russia (Crimea), China (Tibet) and Israel (West Bank) flout international law that prohibits annexation of occupied territory. Donald Trump cares little for international law or the organizations that America itself…
And You Cons Vote For Them Because …?
Doug Ford and Andy Scheer aren’t too different from Trump. Here’s a recap of what American voters got themselves into.
Rogue Waves – Good News and Bad News
The beaches of the west coast are a big draw for tourists and locals alike. And every year there seems to be one or more news reports about rogue waves…
Why Are These Jetliners Falling Out Of the Sky?
Three recent crashes of Boeing airliners have raised questions of what in hell is going on. Now all but forgotten is the crash of a Boeing 767 cargo plane operated…
Pacific Great Blue Herons return to Stanley Park for 19th year
More than 180,000 people have checked out the Heron Cam since it was launched in 2015. It’s amazing to be able to get a birds eye view of these magnificent…
How The Filibustering Cons Ended Up Looking Like Idiots
As you know Andrew Scheer is desperate to try to keep the fake scandal going, to try to make Canadians forget that he has been exposed as a far-right extremist.So…
Trump Linked to Brexit Leave Campaign
Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore, the “Bad Boys of Brexit,” were guests last year at Trump’s favourite hole-in-the-wall, Mar-a-Lago. Congressional investigators in the US are investigating whether the Brexit leaders…
Oh Dear. Jane Wants to Talk.
This one’s gonna hurt. Jane Philpott wants to tell “her truth.” The former Treasury Board president has given an interview to Macleans’s Paul Wells that can only flame the embers…
Philpott Speaks
We are now just a bit more than a day past the Federal Budget, and normally this would be a time when government ministers would fan out across the country…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday March 21, 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. – Linda Givetash discusses how the consequences of climate breakdown include impending water shortages in the UK. But rather than recognizing and acting…
The Jane Philpott interview: this is extraordinary
Paul Wells and Maclean’s have got the first interview with Jane Philpott – former Minister of Health, former Treasury Board President, former Minister of Indigenous Services – and it is…
The Stuff That Come Out Of The Back End
In Ontario, it’s getting wider and deeper. Education Minister Lisa Thompson announced this week that by increasing average class size in the provinces high schools , students would be prepared…
Students Don’t Want the Planet as-is
The kids these days aren’t alright with the world they’re inheriting. Many of the homes kids are growing up in will be under water if climate change continues at its…
Ford Forestalls Hillier’s Hussars.
It might not be up to the standards of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade but somebody should have warned Ontario premier Doug Ford before he got into…
Haters share one thing
…they love guns. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, homophobes, Holocaust deniers, Islamophobes, committed racists all share one thing: they are gun nuts. Back when the Heritage Front was the largest and most…
The #LavScam stretch job-loss goal
If the SNC-Lavalin CEO says 9,000 jobs were never going to be lost – if he says he never, ever told the government there would 9,000 jobs lost – why…
Alberta Election Day 2: Will UCP scandals keep traction once parties start rolling out their policies?
Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP clearly hopes to make Opposition Leader Jason Kenney’s character the ballot box issue for voters in the April 16 provincial election, but will the United Conservative…