The rise of authoritarian autocrats is giving people the downers. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) tracks hundreds of attributes of democracy for 202 countries, spanning more than two centuries. Its 2019…
There are those who want to derail action on climate change. They include powerful corporations and individuals with ‘fossil fortunes’ at stake. Now, as pressure for concrete action begins to…
Here’s an irony. I’m forced to vote Liberal (again) because Justin Trudeau betrayed me. No, it doesn’t make any sense and, furthermore, it pisses me off. But that’s just the…
It was about a month ago that the brand new Federal Election Debates Commission decided on the guest list for the two big Commission debates on October 7th and 10th.…
Aug. 6, 2019: Winnipeggers gather in the shadow of the Manitoba Legislative Building to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Lanterns for…
I wonder if Morneau can still put a ‘stop payment’ on that $4.5 billion cheque to Kinder Morgan? A new report from a major French bank, one of the world’s…
Climate activism is on a roll for the next week and a bit. Next Monday marks the start of a UN Climate Summit where nations are expected to unveil concrete…
You don’t hear many Canadians concerned about how our plans to flood world markets with high-carbon bitumen will affect the little brown people of the Third World. Out of sight,…
Snapshot of a Postmedia staffer’s email to Sun and Province editor-in-chief Harold Munro circulated widely among colleagues at the newspaper. David Beers 13 Sep 2019 | TheTyee.ca David Beers…
As I’ve mentioned before, Scarborough is an ethnic food oasis. One of the few remaining remanants of the Scarborough of yesteday though are assorted fish and chips spots. And the…
I can only imagine how desperate Andrew Scheer must have been to think he could solve his big bigot problem, with a hastily arranged late night scrum in a plane…
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of September 16, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep…
Details not revealed as the issue is before the courts. ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF KRISTY KIRKUP PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS REPORTER PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 All government departments involved in…
To put it concisely, owing to a sense of general disillusionment, I have been taking a break from my blog, a break that is likely to continue with some exceptions,…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 16, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: The inconvenient truth about Quebec’s secularism law Trudeau doesn’t want to face:…
Martin Patriquin writes that there are stark parallels between the Adscam scandal of the 1990’s and the SNC-Lavalin scandal of today: A quick refresher: In 1995, utterly spooked by Quebec’s…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The L.A. Times’ editorial board comments on the need for everybody to pitch in toward a just transition which preserves a habitable planet…
As we start Day 6 of the 43rd General Election, an early on-going theme has been the problems that some campaigns are having with the vetting of their candidates, and…
Let her speak. That was the headline on an iconic Toronto Sun headline way back in February: let her speak. Let Jody Wilson-Raybould – then still a cabinet minister, then…
Little Robot Friends is a Toronto-based startup that wants kids to not only be comfortable with code, they want kids to have fun playing with it too. The company runs…
