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April 2019
How I Tried And Failed To Escape The Fake Scandal
As the Great Polar Bear God of the Great White North knows, I did everything I could this weekend to try to escape the fake scandal.I went over to the…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 8, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 8, 2019. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich offers a reminder that the Trump administration is just the most glaring example of the utter breakdown of any pretense of…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 8, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 8, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: California lawyer fingerprinting turns up over 2,200 convictions unknown to bar Gmail’s…
Birch Bark Coffee Provides Drinkable Water
Coffee production takes a lot of water and produces a wonderful bean filtered drink at the end. In Canada many aboriginal communities are suffering from a lack of potable water…
The Alberta Election
Things are getting interesting in Alberta. Last week’s leaders’ debate provided a clear contrast. Robin Sears writes: Rachel Notley may not flaunt the swaggering charisma of a Trudeau, but as…
Episode 33: Ballot Questions, the Leaders’ Debate, and your great Alberta Election questions
In this episode Dave and Ryan discuss the latest Alberta’s election developments, including the fallout from Mark Smith’s homophobic comments, Jason Kenney’s interview with Charles Adler and how it might…
Quit bitching and drink your Kool-Aid.
We hear that there is no federal liberal party. Instead, we are told it is the Trudeau cult. The only thing is that, before we drink our Kool-Aid, we need…
The Atlantic Accord: background to the 1985 agreement #nlpoli
The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways. There is the agreement between the Government of Canada and the provincial government that established the joint management…
The Global Economy Is a "Pyramid Scheme" – Nobel Laureate
Former Obama-administration energy secretary and Nobel laureate, Steven Chu, says the global economy is dysfunctional because it depends on constant population growth. “The world needs a new model of how…
The Day Jason Kenney Edited the UCP Policy Document…
The UCP policy document opens with a letter from Jason Kenney which cribs Ronald Reagan’s well known question, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Kenney’s…
No golden era in Canada’s foreign policy
Photo by Presidencia de la República Mexicana Some people on the left seem keen to perpetuate Canadian foreign policy mythology. In a December Ricochet article headlined “Trudeau lags behind allies…
Colonization, resistance and popular culture
From Katherena Vermette’s graphic novel A Girl Called Echo On January 7, 2019, the RCMP raided the Gidimt’en checkpoint and the Unist’ot’en blockade that was set up to protect traditional…
Morbid symptoms: Alberta’s yellow vest movement
Photo by Brendan Collinge Parroting – or perhaps parodying – the Yellow Vest movement in France, hundreds of similarly dressed protesters began taking to Alberta’s streets in the weeks leading…
Canada needs a Green New Deal
Illustration by Left Voice Recently, two events occurred that at first glance seemed unconnected or even at odds: Canada bought a pipeline and General Motors (GM) closed a factory. Late…
Injustice at Unist’ot’en
Photo by Yellowhead Institute Since 2009, members of the Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) have been re-occupying Wet’suwet’en territory – in the northwestern part of what is known as…
Wilson-Raybould, thrown under the bus for corporate interests
Photo by Matthew Usherwood Global players like SNC-Lavalin are masters of corruption. They have a lengthy history of illicit payments to public officials and not just in Libya. The North…
Wilson-Raybould rejects criticisms she may have helped Conservatives win the next election
So quoth the current headline on National Newswatch. She rejects criticism because St. Jody is above criticism. She is perfect and everything is someone else’s fault. Narcissist much? Meanwhile on…