140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 2 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 2, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: New York State Bill to Legalise Commercial Surrogacy Hit Road Block U.S.…
July 2019
What Will it Take to Win a Green New Deal?
Photo courtesy of the Times Colonist The push for a Green New Deal (GND) that’s become a big topic of political discussion in the US has come north. At the…
Ugly Canadian supports status quo in original banana republic
Porfirio Lobo • Photo by Eduardo Verdugo In 1901, US author O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” to describe Honduras, which was dominated by the US-based United Fruit Company.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Roberts writes about the developing recognition that we all bear responsibility for consumption emissions – though even better would be a…
They Live On Another Planet
It’s time, Geoff Stevens writes, for climate deniers to fold their tents: It is time they stopped wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on court challenges to the federal government’s carbon…
The failure of Justin Trudeau’s Senate.
It had to become obvious to Canadians eventually that Justin Trudeau’s version of a Senate is a disaster. Justin seems to think that an elite group of senators, picked by…
Women in politics: women political staffers in Australia and Canada #nlpoli
Feodor Nagovsky and Matthew Kerby, “Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada,” Parliamentary Affairs, 24 August 2018. Summary: While there is considerable research on elected legislators…
Is North Cowichan Staff Advising Council To Maintain The Municipal Forest Status Quo?
By Larry Pynn North Cowichan council has assured the public that it’s no longer business-as-usual in the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve and that the municipality plans to undertake meaningful public…
Electrification and Climate I: Scale of the Challenge
Many elements have to come together if Canada is to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions. There is now a technical consensus that “electrification” – the replacement of fossil…
Happy Canada Day to ALL. Except YOU, Doug Ford.
Life is good sometimes. I use this blog to whine about a lot of things that get under my skin, but today, I’m just going to keep it simple: Happy…
Concert Organized By Extremists Connected To Northern Guard Collapsing; Extremists Whine In Response
Back in 2018, the Nick Gallant of the Northern Guard was claiming to be in the process of organizing a concert to benefit veterans: First, I don't think System of…
Ten things to know about affordable housing in Alberta
I’ve just written a ‘top 10’ overview blog post about affordable housing in Alberta. Points raised in the blog post include the following: -On a per capita basis, Alberta has…
Putin Fails Liberal Democracy 101
Vladimir Putin is perhaps first among the anti-democratic strongmen that have emerged to soil the world. At the recent G20 summit he couldn’t resist taking a shot at liberal democracy,…
indigenous canada: online course from university of alberta
This is a detail from artwork thatwas used throughout the course. Earlier this year, I studied and completed “Indigenous Canada“, a 12-week MOOC offered by the University of Alberta. It’s…
Saturday Photo: An Octopus’s Garden in the Shade
Or rather in the sun. And maybe it’s a pentopus… This is the temporary water arrangement in front of our house. Five houses are hooked up to the hose which…
Did the Long Reach of Donald Trump Cost a Canadian Cartoonist His Job?
The cartoonist is from New Brunswick, Michael de Adder. His former employer – Brunswick News Inc. where Adder’s political cartoons ran in four papers. Until he posted this to his…
The G20 Isn’t a DayCare for Donald Trump’s Kids
Couldn’t he have just dropped her off at the mall? Donald Trump’s daughter/bride, Ivanka, caused something of a stir when she appeared as a stand-in for her dad at the…
Global Weirding, the Canada Day Edition.
Relax, it’s not another campground getting whacked by a tornado. It didn’t even happen in Canada. Try Mexico. In Guadalajara residents got a shock as they greeted the first day…
july 1: canada day and beyond
Happy Canada Day from the traditional and unceded territory of the Kwakiutl people, whose historical ties to this land date back from time immemorial and continue to this day. Many…