140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 19, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 19, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Unhappy home renovation customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write…
August 2019
Deregulation. Really?
There was a time when deregulation was all the rage. In fact, it’s still all the rage. Alan Freeman writes: The move to deregulate has been gathering steam worldwide since…
Talking Truth About Climate Change Matters
Canadians will be voting this fall in a federal election and one party is running with the mantra that reality isn’t real. Specifically that our current climate crisis doesn’t exist…
Why listen to Bernier?
Chantal Hébert made an interesting case the other day. She wrote in the Toronto Star that Maxime Bernier of our new People’s Party of Canada should be allowed to be…
Captain Dildo, Dwight Ball, and the New Approach to Old Stereotypes #nlpoli
Last week, the Premier’s Office sent out a picture of the Premier standing next to the mascot of a town in Newfoundland and Labrador. Nothing odd about it until you…
Political journalism
Yet more evidence that important parts of corporate media do not practice good journalism…
Stephen Garvey Facing Criminal Charges
Garvey has been a figure we have been following since his time harassing students at a Red Deer high school along with members of the hate group World Wide Coalition…
STFU!! Saying Climate Change is Real is ‘Partisan Activity’ – Warns Elections Canada.
Is this still Canada? A pre-election chill has descended over some environment charities after Elections Canada warned them that discussing the dangers of climate change during the coming federal campaign…
pupdate: in which cookie decides to make a bit of progress
First there was Incident With a Fish Head. Then there was this. What is that dog doing, you may ask. She’s chasing tiny fish. She did this for two hours.…
Names & Titles Given to Members of the Royal Family by Canada’s First Nations
The Canadian Monarchy has a long history with the original inhabitants of Canada. And despite the failures of successive elected governments to uphold promises made to these First Nations, the…
Fascists Don’t Kick In Our Doors. They Don’t Have To, We Leave Them Unlocked.
The United States is degenerating into a fascist nation. I always point out that for all the adherents of the radical right there are more decent Americans appalled at what…
Too Big to Fail—A Sound Idea?
So the Ethics Commissioner has slapped the Prime Minister’s wrist, stating in his report I found that Mr. Trudeau used his position of authority over Ms. Wilson‑Raybould to seek to…
Vancouver’s outdoor pools are making a bigger splash than ever
Adrienne Tanner Special to The Globe and Mail 16 August 2019 With Vancouver’s beaches periodically out of commission for swimming, our city’s pools are rendered even more precious. There is…
The Day Justin Trudeau Made Andrew Scheer Look Like Fool
Ever since the Cons made Andrew Scheer their leader, I have hated him for the same reasons I hate most of them. I hate his religious fanaticism, his misogyny, his…
Woodfibre LNG has just lost its biggest prospective customer
Hi Richard — What a difference a week makes! Last Friday we were feeling a bit down in the dumps. Why? Because the Federal Government announced that they were…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Aditya Chakrabortty writes about the consequences of the UK’s choice not to fund its or social infrastructure: We are right in the…
Howard Roark
If you’re looking for a precursor to Donald Trump, Tom Hartmann writes, take a good look at Howard Roark. Roark is the protagonist in Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead: When…
My latest: what #LavScam now means for Scheer, JWR, PMO, the RCMP and the media
Joseph Nye Welch: remember that name. He was an American lawyer, and chief counsel to the US Army. He died long ago. But even from the grave, even after so…
Jason Kenney: Alpha Male?
When Gillian Steward from Calgary wrote in the Toronto Star recently about Alberta’s Jason Kenney being the federal conservative alpha male, it had to be another example of her wonderful…