October 2019
Are secret mandatory government bargaining orders the new face of public-sector labour relations in Alberta?
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and his government moved yesterday to impose big changes on public sector bargaining in Alberta, not to mention a host of other areas. They’re sure to…
How A Liberal Minority Government Might Impact Corporate Environmental Outlook
The 2019 Canadian election resulted in a Liberal minority government led by Justin Trudeau. How might it impact your corporate environmental policy? To help guide your outlook we highlight notable…
Meme Monday #6
The Bishop needs to consider his next move carefully. Not much to say about this meme. It kind of speaks for itself.But since I’m here I think its interesting to…
The Many Facets of Climate Change
How do you inform yourself about climate change? Do you ignore it to the extent possible, try not to think about it? Do you look at it as a scientific…
Look To The Skies
Only a simpleton would deny the reality of climate change. Whether we are reading almost daily about wildfires, tornadoes, floods or sea-level rise, we know in our hearts that the…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 28, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 28, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge in Barry and Honey Sherman murder probe keeps police records sealed…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee discuss the utter failure of corporate-driven “market” incentives to produce fair outcomes: If it is not financial incentives,…
Our Undoing
The EU has granted Boris Johnson another extension on Brexit. But, however long Brexit takes, Neal Ascherson writes that the ugliness of it all has destroyed the United Kingdom and…
Twitter vs. Everyone
Frank Bruni, who I hero-worship, has a typically-amazing column in the Sunday New York Times. Best bit: On Twitter in particular, Trump doesn’t exclaim; he expectorates. You can feel the…
Wexit, Canada, Norway and $1.4 Trillion
I snapped this quote the other day and wanted to share it: I’m putting this here for a LOT of reasons. $1.3 trillion reasons. That’s right: the Government Pension Fund…
Roger Grimes: the unlikely reactionary #nlpoli
What is happening in Newfoundland and Labrador is not merely polarization in public opinion. Polarization implies that people are within the same community or see themselves as being within the…
Great tweet of the day
Rare photo at Stonehenge, staff moving clocks back one hour.#clocksgoback pic.twitter.com/UUZegtttVF — You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) October 26, 2019
"Popular" vote? Not so much
Here is the vote result in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta:Liberals: 500,000 votes – 4 seatsNDP: 466,000 votes – 4 seatsConservatives: 2 million votes – 54 seatsSo don’t talk to me…
Justin Trudeau and the Con Apocalypse
It's been almost a week and I still can't get those amazing election night sights and sounds out of my mind. The glorious victory, the happy couple, the cheering crowd…
Gifters (Allegedly) Gotta Grift: Pako Dallaire Falls Out With Steven Myatt
It has been quite a long time since ARC has devoted an article specifically focusing on Steven Ponzi Madoff Lustig McCloundy Myatt. In fact it has been more than half…
How did we get to Wexit?
“Is this democracy’s death spiral? Are we falling, in this and other countries, into a lethal cycle of fury and reaction, that blocks the reasoned conversation on which civic life…
Can Trudeau Make a Future with Alberta?
Life is full of little surprises. Often pleasant ones. I encountered such a surprise this week reading the Calgary Herald, not a paper usually on my wave length. And yet…
Victory in defeat
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh at a capaign event in Parksville Beach, BC. Photo by Wayne Polk (Flickr). When the news broke that the Liberals had won every riding in the…