Legally Adulting in Toronto
Last night, WISE LAW held its final Legally Adulting community seminar for 2019 at Creeds Coffee Bar on Dupont Street in downtown Toronto. Thank you to everyone who attended last…
December 2019
How big is track lawsuit threat after North Cowichan Council rejection?
This is an excellent update from the Discourse on the North Cowichan- Racetrack Controversy. RH North Cowichan again denied the Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit’s expansion plans this week.…
What would the October election have looked like if based on PR
After I published my previous blogpost on December 9 I received a comment on Facebook asking what the results would have looked like using proportional representation. Good question. I have…
What would the October election have looked like if based on PR
After I published my previous blogpost on December 9 I received a comment on Facebook asking what the results would have looked like using proportional representation. Good question. I have…
Scheer Surprise
Well folks, one of the most-watched things in Canadian politics was the fate of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. What would come of him? Would he remain or walk away? Would…
Highly-scientific poll™️: who should be the next Tory leader?
Who should the #CPC pick? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 12, 2019
What would the October election have looked like if based on PR
After I published my previous blogpost on December 9 I received a comment on Facebook asking what the results would have looked like using proportional representation. Good question. I have…
BREAKING: Andrew Scheer resigns
Wow. Justin Trudeau’s life has just become more complicated. From the Globe: Andrew Scheer has decided to resign as Conservative leader after a disappointing election loss and facing internal party…
New column day
Here, on how the Libs’ throne speech continues their pattern of paying lip service to climate action while using public resources to make matters worse. For those interested in the…
How Donald Really Feels
Donald Trump has finally let it be known how he really feels about Justin Trudeau. Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng report in The Daily Beast that: The famously sensitive American…
You’ve Been Warned
Should the legislative branch of the American government do what a functioning democracy requires and hold an out-of-control President to account, mayhem will ensue, according to Trump Nation: Trump supporters…
The Vilification of Jeremy Corbyn
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a rally in Birmingham, December 5, 2019 (Flickr). The vilification of the leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as an…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Laurie Macfarlane writes about the interconnected economic, democratic and environmental crises facing the UK – and the opportunity voters have to address…
Labour’s manifesto promises to transform Britain. Why are the middle classes so hostile to it?
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at the Party of European Socialists (PES) Council, 2016 (Flickr). This general election is unique in ways that transcend Brexit. Over the decades that…
The Trudeau Liberals lose
Politics is all about symbols. And, this week, the federal government was defeated, symbolically. Canadians, and the Opposition, are deeply dissatisfied with the government’s approach to China. Two Canadians are…
Whatever we do, we’re wrong.
Have you been following the adventures of Huawei? Do you realize now why Bell Canada was so wrong when it dumped Nortel Networks? The once famous Bell subsidiary did not…
The ‘War Room’ finally launches: $30-million and all we got was this lousy website?
The mighty voice of Alberta’s beleaguered oil industry, the long promised and much-touted $30-million “Energy War Room,” stumbled out of the starting gate yesterday after a news conference in Calgary…
Alberta’s "energy war room" officially launches (with a half-assed blog and ratio’d video)
It’s finally here! The great $30 million per year energy war room who’s name has been politically corrected to the “Canadian Energy Centre” (because all the best propaganda masquerades as…
Alberta’s plan for the $2.4B? Helping defunct oil companies circumvent the Supreme Court
Jason Kenney has been working on multiple fronts to do an end run around the Supreme Court ruling in January that companies are obligated to fund orphan well cleanup before…
Canadian airline makes history with first flight in the world by all-electric float plane
Canada’s Clean Economy Test flight of all-electric float plane by Harbour Air succeeds in Vancouver, B.C., on Dec. 10. Photo by James Glave It was undeniably a ‘Kitty Hawk moment,’…