An Orange Turn?
As we enter the final week of July all of the parties are fully into their election preparations. A big piece of that preparation is getting candidates in place in…
July 2019
Resisting “The Resistance”
Photo by Graham Hughes/CP Ander, hatred, and bigotry are finding expression in mainstream provincial politics these days, as witnessed by the recent conservative victories by Doug Ford and Jason Kenney…
Introducing the Courage Coalition
If a movement ever develops in Canada with the potential to change its political landscape, like England’s Momentum which helped elect Corbyn as Labour Party leader, or the U.S. youth…
A Jason Kenney Alberta
Photo by Tom Ross (660 NEWS, Edmonton) The 2019 Alberta election is over. Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party will form the province’s next government. But who is Jason Kenney? And…
Anti-racist organizations remain silent on the JNF
Parliament will soon hear a petition criticizing the only explicitly racist registered Canadian charity. Oddly, this important event will occur without help from self-declared anti-racist organizations. Recently Independent Jewish Voices…
Prospects for the federal election
Photo by European Parliament The NDP is currently at its lowest level of popularity since its meteoric rise in 2011, when the party won 103 seats, including 59 in Québec,…
No Deal without Nature
Relentless reports of the escalating climate emergency have given impetus to appeals for a Green New Deal. Most recently in Canada, a coalition of NGOs, activists and celebrities has rallied…
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, 2019
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, the earliest ever. That’s not a good thing. July 29 marks the day on which humanity, the lot of us, have consumed the total volume of…
What Are We Doing? A Shot in the Arm for the Tar Sands.
There’s news this morning about Teck Resources play to open a new pit in the Athabasca Tar Sands. It promises to be a major investment, 20 billion, and the company…
On July 26, Cuba Has a Lot to Be Proud of
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the simultaneous assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the military garrison in Bayamo led by Fidel Castro and less than…
Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier’s Con Bigot Contest
It's not easy to get back to the sweltering heat of the city after spending two days sailing through the coolest part of Lake Ontario, far from the madding crowds,…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 29, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 29, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bob Rivett highlights the fact that climate protesters are motivated by the desire to save our world from the reckless corporations and politicians…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 29, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 29, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: 4 B.C. sisters victorious in court after parents left them tiny share…
Bernier and his infamous neo-Nazi friend
Paul Fromm is perhaps the leading Canadian far Right leader. Fromm has decades of involvement with the Canadian organized hate movement, from the Edmund Burke Society to the Western Guard…
Doug’s Shadow
Poor Andrew Scheer. He had hoped that Doug Ford would take the summer off and keep his mouth shut. But Doug likes the limelight. Antonia Zerbesias writes: Ford, whose popularity,…
The Brits are crazy too.
There is a pattern emerging. What particular hell we are heading for might still be a mystery but I fear the pace is accelerating. What you would have thought impossible…
Cannabis and culture #nlpoli
Politics and policy are much more complicated things than they appear to many people. Change is possible, but effective change can only come if we see the world as it…
Sacrificing the future
Norway made a choice to take a material share of oil and gas revenues and distribute the value of its non-renewable resources to citizens over multiple generations. Alberta, British Columbia…