140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 4, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 4, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Justice Department appeals order to turn over Mueller grand jury materials…
November 2019
Class Struggle in Chile: President Piñera At War With His Own People
The large anti-government protests in Chile have led to more than 18 deaths. Photo by Getty. Chile has been held up for decades as South America’s clearest example of the…
Ten things to know about the 2019-20 Alberta budget
I’ve just written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent Alberta budget. Points raised in the post include the following: -The budget lays out a four-year strategy of spending cuts,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Spence discusses how a wealth tax can work, while noting that the worst possible response to growing inequality is to refuse to…
This Is How It’s Done!
North American ‘leaders’, take heed. Thanks to Alex Himelfarb for retweeting this: Two inspiring minutes https://t.co/9JclWqc5Eu — alex himelfarb (@alexhimelfarb) November 4, 2019 Recommend this Post
Encana Heads South
Jason Kenney is up in arms. Liberal energy policies are why Encana has headed south, he says. But, Alan Freeman writes, you could have seen this coming long ago: Encana…
Open letter: Canada must stop backing Haiti’s repressive and illegitimate president
Protesters rip an electoral poster of president Jovenel Moïse during a demonstration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 6, 2015. Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters. In recent months, Haitians have demonstrated…
A “Values Test” for Quebecers.
The Quebec National Assembly seems to be constantly against immigration. Combined with the ill-disguised bigotry behind the Bill 21 restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols, it is sending a…
New York’s Increased Minimum Wage Increased Revenue for Businesses and People
With inequality increasing throughout the world she jurisdictions are fighting back by raising the minimum wage. Business owners must pay employees at least the minimum wage set by the government,…
WEXIT: Assessing the Costs
Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe: Canada’s Three Wexiteers, all clamouring for something that they don’t own.
The New Welfare Bums #nlpoli #cdnpoli #ableg
Lunacy is always easier to spot in other people. There is a Liberal conspiracy to rob Alberta of its precious fluids. People in Newfoundland and Labrador got a taste of…
‘Wexit’ isn’t likely, but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous
“Wexit” is dangerous, but not because it’s ever likely to come to pass. The economic case for Prairie separatism is so obviously lame — because of what’s happened to the…
Episode 43: The UCP’s pick-a-fight budget
David Climenhaga from AlbertaPolitics.ca joins Dave and Adam on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the cuts in Alberta’s provincial budget and the United Conservative Party’s growing list…
Gay kids, trans kids, are made in God’s likeness
…how could they not be? Read Rosie, who is at her passionate best, here. Oh, and she quotes what the Pope and the relevant Ontario minister have to say. Heed…
Letter to the Edmonton Journal, Friday, November 2, 2019 (In Response to the October 24 Budget)
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
Letter to the Edmonton Journal, Friday, November 2, 2019 (In Response to the October 24 Budget)
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
The Far-Right and the Power of Uncritical Thinking
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact…
Letter to the Edmonton Journal, Friday, November 2, 2019 (In Response to the October 24 Budget)
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
Good start.
Maybe it’ll even work. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing to meet with opposition leaders as the Liberals start to map out how they will govern in a minority Parliament…
The Anti-Alberta Energy Inquiry (Thank God for Lawyers)
In his book On Tyranny historian Timothy Snyder sets out twenty lessons from the 20th century to help democracies resist the “the usurpation of power by a single individual or…