You are judged by the company you keep
I first discovered Progressive Bloggers during visits to Daily Kos during George W Bush’s first term. I noticed these interesting comments with a tag line referencing Prog Blogs as a…
April 2019
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 24, 2019. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
What a false accusation of antisemitism from Winnipeg’s mayor reminds us about political power
Photo by Festival of Faiths On Tuesday, Winnipeg mayor Brian Bowman delivered a press conference calling for Linda Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian rights activist and New York-based co-chair of the…
PEI politics
I was at the Raptors game last night when this result came in. It was a shocker. Three reasons. Once again, plenty of pollsters missed out on a sizeable Conservative…
RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en Nation territory breaches Canada’s ‘rule of law’
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes flowery public speeches about respecting the rights of Indigenous peoples and reassures the international community that there is no relationship more important that the…
Are health care administrative expenses out of control in Ontario?
The Progressive Conservative government has justified its health restructuring plans with the claim that administrative expenses are much higher in Ontario than in Canada. When introducing the reforms, health minister…
#LavScam #LawScam #LibScam: thanks for your donation
Jody Wilson-Raybould worked to clean up the legal system. Justin Trudeau and his PMO cabal work to dirty it. Have these guys learned nothing from Lavscam? Have they not considered…
Trouble In The Principal’s Office
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Don’t send a cop to do a marketing job.
There are sins of commission as well as omission that can be laid on prime minister Justin Trudeau. The silliest was his choice of cannabis tsar. The very fact that…
A Long and Very Scary List
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: Here’s the list thus far. Thanks…
Irked by news site’s critical reports, Jason Kenney hints at retaliation as PressProgress fires back
Apparently the stenographic efforts of Postmedia’s Alberta newspapers as a virtual wing of the United Conservative Party campaign team were not enough for the victorious Jason Kenney, Alberta’s premier designate.…
The Monstrous Hidden Homophobia of Andrew Scheer
Ever since he became the leader of the Cons, Andrew Scheer has been very careful to conceal his extreme religious views.He won the leadership with the support of social conservatives,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cozy cats.
Greens Form Opposition in PEI
For the first time in a long while Prince Edward Island will have a minority government. The Progressive Conservatives dispatched the Liberals to third place. The Tories are expected to…
April 23: a bad, bad, bad, bad day.
Today’s blog is a disaster – and my computer has to go in for serious repairstomorrow. And if the computer doesn’t need serious repairs, I do. I’m not even sure…
On the Creative Commons Certificate Course
A week ago, by way of a post in the Creative Commons Open Education Platform discussion list, I became aware of the Creative Commons Certificate course, “an in-depth course about…
Think of It As an Honest Mistake. A Heaping Pile of Honest Mistakes.
Petro-states exhibit certain common traits. A willingness to freely and repeatedly lie and deceive is one of them. This, however, isn’t about lying. This is about a mistake, an honest…
Mark Carney Says Climate Change Will Bring Economic Disaster. Will the Powerful Listen?
Global bank heads say urgent action needed to prevent a ‘Minsky moment’ collapse in asset prices. By Crawford Kilian Today | TheTyee.ca Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The…
Magpie Brûlé PEI Election Night Live Blog
Tonight promises to be an interesting night in Canada’s smallest province, as Islanders go to the polls to elect their next government. Will the governing Liberals win another term? Will…
As Though I Needed Another Reason
In the past ten years I’ve given up on travel, especially air travel. My flying days are done. It’s not like I haven’t had my share. I have – and…