Independents day
“I did my job and spoke the truth…I will work with integrity.” @Puglaas on the three things @JustinTrudeau lacks. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/NVWipkgOzG — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 27, 2019 One of…
May 2019
Jody is Independent. Jane is Independent.
Wilson-Raybould has announced she’ll seek re-election in Vancouver-Granville as an independent. I expect her decision means that riding is lost to the Liberals even if she doesn’t win in October.…
Do You Think We’re Not in the Grip of Nihilists?
In his book, “Collapse, How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail,” anthropologist, Jared Diamond, explores how societies past have repeatedly made absolutely rational, short-term choices that carried nihilistic consequences in…
Europe’s Green Surge
The only good news out of the latest EU elections comes in the form of the impressive rise of the Green Party. The Guardian reports the Greens may have taken…
It’s Europe Calling, Justin. You Might Want to Take This. No? Okay.
The EU elections showed that voters are abandoning old school politics and the same old, same old. Small wonder. Right wing populists appear to be the big winners but also…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of May 27, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of May 27, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on May…
UPDATED: You’re A Mean One, Mr. Ford
In a move that will surely swell the tiny hearts beating within the breast of Ford Nation, the Ontario government is eliminating a benefit that helps children of the poor,…
When you’re wrong, admit it
…and Doug Ford has. It isn’t ever easy to do, politically, but Ford deserves full credit for doing so. And kudos, big time, to John Tory. He led the charge,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC examines the obscene corporate subsidies doled out by Canadian governments – with Alberta ranking as the worst offender even as it also…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of May 27, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 27, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Is access to vegan food a human right? Ontario firefighter says it…
Hiding Under The Bed
Andrew Scheer says that his environmental policy is a work in progress. But it really is hard to know what his party is thinking. It changes gears frequently. Rick Smith…
It’s time to let all Ontario Liberal Party members vote on the final ballot for leader
The Ontario Liberal Party will hold its first Annual General Meeting since the 2018 election next week in Mississauga. At that AGM, party members will be voting on a constitutional…
What JWR has to say
…about something that matters a lot. ** “A new nation-to-nation process,” they said. “We will renew the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples. It is time for Canada to have…
Kenney’s Conundrum, Capturing Carbon.
It was in the business news recently. It was about the success of Shell Oil’s $1.3 billion carbon-capture plant, Quest, near Edmonton. The Quest plant is designed to capture and…
Iceland’s Carbon Capture Plan Working
Iceland already is one of the greenest places on the planet and they are going even further to try keep the whole planet green. The country is hosting a research…
Simon Lono , 1963-2019
Simon Lono – husband, father, grandfather, advocate, orator, writer, mentor, friend – died Friday, May 24, 2019. He was 56. When our friends are alive, we do not spend time…
B.C. Appeal Court’s Trans Mountain ruling may not be quite the slam-dunk Alberta thinks it is
The unanimous ruling Friday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the B.C. Government does not have the constitutional authority to control what goes inside the federally regulated Trans…
Quebec premier vows drive to slash oil use; Alberta premier calls climate worry ‘flavour of the month’
Over the weekend, Quebec Premier François Legault vowed to implement an ambitious electrification drive that would reduce the province’s use of oil by 40 per cent by 2030, which in…
Throne Speech: Whose Destiny Are We Talking About?
“I am your density…I mean your destiny.” — George McFly, Back to the Future (1985) All eyes were riveted on Lois Mitchell, Her Honour the Honourable the Lieutenant Governor, last…
Doublethink by the barrel
As someone who is a columnist for two great newspapers, and as someone who is acutely aware that newspapers have been and remain in big financial trouble, I say: it…