#LavScam bodycount grows: top ‘crat craps out
Did a hit on @NEWSTALK1010 on the overdue, justified resignation of top Ottawa bureaucrat Michael Wernick. Me: he had stopped sounding like a non-partisan – he sounded like he worked…
March 2019
King Harper’s Toxic Touch Is Back?
There’s no direct link (yet), but Press Progress shows that Stephen Harper’s ‘services’ are stuck in the middle of a wild torrent of vote manipulation in Alberta, including references to…
LensCheaters
Competition Bureau has a new Commish, let’s see if he can get something important done against a monopoly? — The LA Times recently explained how Luxottica LensCrafters is a monopoly…
Alberta’s Freedom Conservatives and the Canadian Monarchy
As regular readers of this blog already know I often survey political parties and their candidates to discovery their views on our monarchy. The focus has often been on the…
Islamophobia is practically enshrined as public policy in Australia
Cronulla Riots, 2005 • Photo by Wade Laube The worst terror attack in New Zealand’s modern history took place on Friday, and the alleged perpetrator is an Australian. Appropriately, this…
My Last Post About SNC Lavalin (Also, I Lie Sometimes)
The worst part of this whole SNC-Lavalin faux scandal has been the polarizing effect that it has had on Canadian politics. I have never seen such a disconnect between journalism,…
Andrew Scheer and the Growing Fascist Darkness
For more than two years I have been trying to warn Canadians that Andrew Scheer is a leader like no other this country has ever known.A far-right ideologue who is…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of March 18, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of March 18, 2019. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Documentaries can Change the World
If you enjoy documentaries you might be changing the world. Documentaries change conversations around important issues and some are so effective at doing so that they make a real-world impact…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of March 18, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 18, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Firm websites being impersonated by fraudsters Ontario to ban cellphones in classrooms…
The federal cabinet shuffle, in one tweet
@JustinTrudeau's choice of @joycemurray as Treasury Board President confirms that @Puglaas was demoted/fired. When @scottbrison departed, Murray – who had been Brison's P.S. since '15 – could have easily been…
Brin’s Axiom
Max Boot has been a voice on the political right for a long time. I have seldom agreed with him. But I agree with him on his opinion of the…
What Fair Taxation Could Achieve
From the print edition of the Toronto Star comes this response to a recent column by Linda McQuaig, a response that strikes me as eminently reasonable: Re Debunking billionaire claims…
Thoughts and prayers
On the one hand, I oppose politicians’ condolence social media messages, because they too often become a substitute for action. On the other hand, I support them, because if they…
Peaking early; Peaking late, in politics.
It is something like a fertility cycle. If you are too early or too late, that little sperm has lost an opportunity. It is like that time in a political…
Banning plastic bags and public policy in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
Effective public policy must be based on a clear understanding of the problem and its relation to other issues, as well as public needs and behaviour. “…almost 50% of all…
Rachel Notley accepts nomination; accuses Jason Kenney of coolly lying about ‘Kamikaze Campaign’
Based on what we’ve learned in the past 24 hours, it’s hard to dispute Premier Rachel Notley’s blunt assessment at her nomination meeting in the Edmonton-Strathcona riding yesterday that Opposition…
‘Just asking for a safe future’: Thousands of B.C. students protest political inaction on climate change
Students are hitting the streets on a global scale demanding that the ‘adults’ wake up and stand up for the our climate and the coming generations. Many no doubt were…
"I Disagree With Violence But….": The Justification and Celebration of the Christchurch Mosque Murders By Paul Fromm and Robert Jones
It didn't take long for the likes of Paulie to try and justify the murder of 50 adults and children worshiping at two Christchurch mosques. In a post on his…