Fringe Flirting
Today the House of Commons returns for the last gasp of this Parliament before the Fall election. MPs will sit for seven of the next eight weeks with lots of…
April 2019
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 29, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 29, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump going to court to try to stop Congress from obtaining his…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cory Booker rightly questions why corporations are hoarding the wealth created by the work of their employees. And Richard Reeves wonders why so…
Living Amidst The Carnage
Chris Hedges has been in Canada lately — specifically, in Northern Alberta — surveying the plight of a Cree reserve, surrounded by the Tar Sands. He describes the process involved…
1.2 Trillion Trees can Balance a Decade of CO2 Emissions
The anti-conservation “conservative” Ontario government recently announced they cancelled a program that helped plant 28 million trees. The goal of that program was to plant 50 million trees to reduce…
#LavScam fallout: governments defeat themselves
Three quick takeaways: LavScam has shredded the Trudeau government brand. When Trudeau is his government’s brand, that’s a big problem. (For him.) Scheer and Singh played LavScam right. They remembered…
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
But after reading Michael Coren’s article and then watching the Mrs. Betty Bowers video, I think you will agree, it is all for the best. For some context, Michael Coren…
Our aboriginals also want the waters.
This news comes with the sinking feeling that we are paying for this foolishness. Did you know that Canada’s Saugeen Ojibway Nation is suing the Crown to return most of…
100 days of #LavScam: Trudeau has defeated himself
One hundred days. A lot can happen in 100 days. Because, per the saying, a week can be a lifetime in politics. One hundred or so days ago, Justin Trudeau…
Where do elections come from? #nlpoli
From fixed election dates to the number of candidates that run in an election, what Newfoundlanders and Labradorians believe about one of the basic institutions of their democracy is as…
The game’s afoot in Ottawa as the moment nears for Jason Kenney to implement his ‘revenge platform’
Jason Kenney will be sworn in tomorrow as the 18th premier of Alberta, so we should know very soon if he really meant his oft-repeated pledge to make the repeal…
Is It Too Late For The Facts?
Where is Sgt Joe Friday when you need him? Sgt Friday is the detective from Dragnet known for saying, “Just the facts, ma’am” when he’s investigating a crime. Why are…
Justin Trudeau and the Angry Old Men
I don't know why there are so many toxic Trudeau haters out there.So many angry old men who seem to hate our prime minister more than they love life.But the…
The Scheer Cons and the New Far Right Extremists
For years I have warned that hate was on the rise in Canada. And I should know since I first started fighting the hate mongers and other bullies when I…
Doug Ford and the Carbon Tax Follies
Ever since he came to power Doug Ford has launched one attack after the other on the Liberal government's carbon tax. As only a political thug and a Con clown…
Lessons from Strikes Past
Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada Graphic History Collective Between the Lines, 2019 Direct Action Gets the Goods is the latest graphic novel…
Scheer Working for International Oil Thugs, Not Canadians
Is Andrew Scheer being a hypocrite when he wants to limit foreign influence for environmental groups while taking meetings with international oil lobbyists? Why, yes he is.
How to be Great in Office
In my time on Parliament Hill, I was blessed to get to see and experience many things. But along with the good and amazing came the rough, stressful, difficult and…
Stuff Happens IV, The Reckoning, week 17: God bless the Bruins
The first 16 weeks of the year have been pretty heavy on the news side, what with elections and mass shootings and bombings and Mueller reports and SNC/Lavalin and resignations…
A Window Into the Hateful Minds of Canada’s Far Right
The Globe & Mail has got its hands on what they were never supposed to see – 150,000 chat room messages exchanged among Canadian rightwing extremists. They come from all…