Photograph By CHAD HIPOLITO, THE CANADIAN PRESS By Cindy Harnett Victoria Times-Colonist Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May and her husband John Kidder greet the public following their marriage during…
The crazies on both sides don’t like it. Whether you accuse Trudeau of supporting pedophilia (because he “shared a stage” with Ben Levin), or you accuse Scheer of supporting white…
Just when it seemed we were all doomed. A new report suggests how we might save planet Earth, averting a 6th mass extinction in the process. In a nutshell, all…
You know your country has descended into a petro-state by the arguments it invokes to excuse itself. The classic Tory line that’s now the Liberal line is that, gee shucks,…
I spent most of the long weekend far from the madding crowd, recovering from a particularly gruelling exam.With only the sound of the rain beating down, and a passing yacht…
Today I took the chance to record and post the next episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast. In this episode I gets provincial. I talk about the results of the…
I was asked: I’m a second-year student at Sciences Po Paris on the Nancy French-German campus. As part of a research project on the link between science and society, I’m…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robin Sears writes that it’s long past time for Canada’s wealthiest people and corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. And…
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 22, 2019. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Antonia Zerbisias is keeping a list. She’s counting the things that Doug Ford is doing to make the lives of “the people” more miserable: Sometime in January, a list, a…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 21, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Federal judge compares Trump’s attacks on judiciary to KKK tactics Some Legal…
The timeline of 12 years has stuck to the point that we’re continuing to say it after the first year has passed. We have until 2030, which is 11 years…
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Prime minister Trudeau asked for party unity last week. He was at the Ontario liberal gathering in Mississauga. It was a friendly crowd. He told them that liberals fighting each…
Left untended, the Muskrat Falls project threatens the financial well-being of the government and people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The threat cannot be removed merely by directing money from one…
Miraculously, the Pieta statue in Notre Dame cathedral seems to have survived intact, even though debris from the burnt roof fell very close to it, as the photograph shows. The…
A tragedy unfolded in the heart of Paris, as the ancient Notre Dame cathedral burned fiercely. When researching my novel The Euros: Notre Dame Point Zero we visited the cathedral…
Now that the election is over and the dust is settling, Ms Soapbox has been reflecting on the results. What do we make of this? The thrust of Mr Kenney’s…
On Tuesday night, I was listening to Rachel Notley’s defiant concession speech. At one point, she said that child poverty in Alberta had been cut in half during her four-year…
