Because all politics really is local.
We are coming into the season when arguments for proportional voting will once again be heard throughout the land. We will hear tales of the ‘wasted vote’ and the supposedly…
March 2019
What We Buried, speculative fiction by Kate A. Boorman, tops Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers List this week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Feb. 24, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
#LavScam poll: Canadians aren’t happy
From the Star, no less. Meanwhile, 57 per cent said the situation has “worsened” their opinion of Trudeau, versus 36 per cent who said it has had “no effect” and…
Andrew Scheer and the Invisible Justin Trudeau
As we all know Andrew Scheer is doing everything he can to make the fake scandal look not only like a real scandal.But the BIGGEST scandal in the WORLD.And his…
That Time Economists Apologized to the Queen for the 2008 Financial Crisis
In November of 2008 Her Majesty wasvisiting the London School of Economics.The financial crisis was well underway andthe Queen took the opportunity to posea question about the scale of the…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kate Aronoff highlights the lack of realism on the part of “adult” politicians demanding that the existential threat of climate breakdown be met…
Musical interlude
Foals – Exits
Three Big Shoes Drop
Most weeks so far in 2019 haven’t been so good for New Democrats. We’ve had a lot of negatives to point to, and people have been down. It’s been a…
Adult Assembly Required: Justin Trudeau & SNC – Lavalin
If anyone can take anything from the past few weeks regarding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould, it should be that sometimes even though you try…
The latest “Shitty Liberal Attack On Jody Wilson-Raybould That Dramatically Backfires” is here!
My Lord, this government is witless.
Nikiforuk Tackles SNC-L’s Criminality
“The misuse of public procurement processes in the construction industry, the manipulation of the rules governing the financing of political parties and the infiltration of the industry by organized crime…
The CVRD Board has the opportunity to Preserve Jobs and the Environment In Cowichan Estuary
Brian Thacker at Pacific Industrial Marine, a steel manufacturer operating at WestCan Terminal on a causeway sticking into Cowichan Bay.-Photograph By DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST A test of mettle on…
A Point Well-Taken. The Hopeless Position When an Attorney-General is Also Justice Minister
Ottawa U. Faculty of Law dean, Adam Dodek, hits the nail squarely on the head – it’s nigh impossible and fraught with conflicts to appoint one person to serve as…
Wise Law Roundtable: Rogue Articling Students and a Lawyer’s Duty to Supervise
Commentaries from Wise Law’s lawyers on current cases of interest BackgroundAll lawyers are expected to be good ambassadors of the profession and the justice system. This is not only when…
Autocracy Ascendant
You can’t have an over-populated, resource depleted world ravaged by climate change, under the heel of late-stage neoliberalism and not expect destabilization and people eager to exploit confusion, dislocation and…
Why Andrew Scheer Should Be Investigated By The RCMP
Jody Wilson-Raybault had barely finished telling "her truth" the other day, before Andrew Scheer came running out to demand that Justin Trudeau resign, claiming he had lost the "moral authority"…
The Liberal #LavScam Jonestown Massacre
If, say, you wanted to now wipe out the Liberal Party of Canada – if you wanted to eliminate any chances it might have in an election that is just…
A Fascinating Rorschach Test
Reading the newspaper this morning, it occurred to me that the reactions to Jody Wilson Raybould’s testimony before the Commons Justice Committee constitute a kind of political Rorschach Test, one…
The Cesspool That Is The Republican Party
The picture that Michael Cohen painted of Donald Trump two days ago offered nothing new. Timothy Egan writes: The character sketch of Donald Trump by the keeper of his secrets…