Poison Ivy is also Green.
It has been very difficult to decipher exactly what Green party leader Elizabeth May has in mind. Our Ottawa parliamentarians were in an emergency debate on the climate emergency our…
May 2019
Nathan Cooper chosen as Legislative Speaker – so how about those early mornings?
Now that Nathan Cooper has been chosen as Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, I wonder if the business of the Assembly will be getting under way at a more civilized…
More Links To Goldy’s Support For (and From) White Supremacists
Sometimes when researching other topics one comes across interesting information. For example ARC has often wondered if there was some sort of rift between white supremacist Faith Goldy and white…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Friendly cats.
May 21:;For Christ’s sake world, wake up.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-kushner-deutsche-bank-money-laundering-specialists-new-york-times-1.5142279 Oh, for pete’s sake, of course Trump and Kushner are a part of that small class who don’t pay taxes, who get big payoffs, and give nothing. Check on…
Homelessness, harm reduction and Housing First
I was recently invited to give a presentation at a two-day event discussing the overdose crisis and First Nations, with a focus on southern Alberta. My presentation focused on homelessness,…
Canada and Global Fishing Watch Trying to Save the Oceans
21 May 2019; Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist, National Geographic, left, with, Andrew Sharpless, CEO, Oceanaon centre and Sean Casey, Parliamentary Secretary, Government of Canada, on Planet : Tech Stage…
The State of Energy in Africa
A panel at Collision Conference today looked at the state of the energy grid in Africa. The panellists are involved in bringing sustainable energy solutions to the continent in various…
An Apology That’s Needed
Working in political Ottawa as an Indigenous person can be frustrating and hard at times. Let’s face it, the system that exists here in Ottawa wasn’t created for Indigenous people,…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of May 21, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of May 21, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on May…
Andrew Scheer and the Abortion Question
Andrew Scheer has always tried to avoid saying anything that might reveal how he really feels about the abortion question, and the rights of women. And with good reason.For if…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – CBC interviews David Wallace-Wells and others about the need for collective action as the only viable response to a climate crisis and…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of May 21, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 21, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: iPhone owners can sue Apple for monopolizing App Store, SCOTUS rules Sweden…
Our Timid Canadian Revenue Agency
Over a year ago I posted about the sad record of the CRA in pursuing offshore tax cheats as revealed by the Panama Papers. It seems that little has changed…
Victoria Day Odds & Ends
The Victoria Day long weekend was somewhat busier than normal this year. There was also some news I wanted to touch on that didn’t warrant their own posts. Cake from…
Turning Back The Clock
For over seventy years now, conservatives have been working hard to turn back the clock. And, lately, they have been achieving what they see as victories. The latest evidence comes…
War Rooms from the political past.
It started back in the late 1970s and 80s when Senator Keith Davey, some of us liberal apparatchiks and the marketing communications experts, who volunteered their time, started to look…
Exclusive in the Sun: JWR speaks!
The truth. She says it’s true — the actions of the Liberal Prime Minister should be “of great concern for many Canadians, across the country.” She says, truthfully, that Justin…
The Lowest-Common Denominator Minority Legislature #nlpoli
An inherently unstable minority legislature where the parties have a history of finding political agreement through public spending is not exactly a recipe for tough decisions. There is something seductively…
The Smart Guys Got Us To This!
OK, now let’s see. Trudeau bought the Kinder Morgan pipeline and Horgan has immersed us in unneeded and unwanted fracking operations and LNG fantasies that will all blow up in…