Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Olalde writes about the public subsidies being handed to U.S. resource companies who polluted water with toxic waste without having any plan…
March 2019
Goudreau Claims To Not Have Written Post Encouraging Murder Laughable; We Have Videos Dude!
This past Monday Kevin "No Show" Goudreau posted the following messages on his personal Facebook profile: The last two are the most relevant as the appear to be advocating and…
UN World Happiness Report 2019 – A Need to Reflect
With all the chaos and havoc sweeping so many nations, today’s release of the UN’s World Happiness Report 2019 (pdf) went largely unnoticed. That’s unfortunate because there is some thought…
Conspicuous By Its Absence
A budget speech is not a throne speech. That said the finance minister’s speech usually highlights the government’s priorities. The Trudeau government often proclaims, with a straight face, that climate…
The Guardian – Theresa May Has Screwed the Pooch
The editorial board of The Guardian isn’t mincing words about the Theresa May’s bungling of her premiership and Britain’s dealings with Europe. Mrs May has asked the European council to…
In A Dark Time
Roethke has always been my favourite poet. In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the…
Do I have something on my nose?
Do I have something on my nose?
Alberta NDP ad: this one is gonna leave a mark
Just brutal. WATCH: Jason Kenney invited us to look at his record – so we did. Anyone who brags about barring people from saying their final goodbyes to their loved…
Poll Dancing
Nation, the first poll of the Alberta 2019 General Election has been released, showing the United Conservative Party of Jason Kenney holding a significant lead over Rachel Notley's NDP overall,…
Poll Dancing
Nation, the first poll of the Alberta 2019 General Election has been released, showing the United Conservative Party of Jason Kenney holding a significant lead over Rachel Notley's NDP overall,…
Poll Dancing
Nation, the first poll of the Alberta 2019 General Election has been released, showing the United Conservative Party of Jason Kenney holding a significant lead over Rachel Notley’s NDP overall,…
Because it’s 2019
Good on her. She’s got guts and integrity to spare. We haven’t heard the last from Celina. Whitby, Ont. MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes has quit the Liberal caucus and will sit…
SNC-Lavalin Speaks
I believe I’ve noted it here a few times already, but to me one of the amazing things about the whole SNC/PMO Scandal has been the amount of new news…
Brexit On The Rocks – Nine Days and Counting
Theresa May warns that, even if MPs back the withdrawal agreement today, there’s not enough time to avert a hard Brexit unless the EU throws Britain a lifeline and grants…
The Liberal Budget and the Monstrous Con Fascists
For a while it looked like it would be like any other Budget Day in Canada. With the finance minister Bill Morneau posing proudly with his billion dollar baby.And when…
Progress delayed
It was roughly two years ago – in the 2017 budget – when the federal government announced changes to the parental leave available through Employment Insurance. Instead of being limited…
The Budget
There’s an election coming, so yesterday’s budget was aimed at that reality. But, Alan Freeman writes, even though there is a considerable amount of spending, it’s not very showy: What…
The Committee to Re-Elect the Prime Minister: how to intimidate MPs, and how to get a newspaper to go along
THREAD. A member of the Team Trudeau campaign secretly follows around two former cabinet ministers on budget day, and takes photos of them when they meet with others. Without consent,…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday March 20, 2019. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Budget 2019: The Morning After
Yesterday was Budget Day in Ottawa, a usually crazy day that usually brings some drama along with it. Well thanks to the Liberal members of the Justice Committee meetings killing…