Sean Holman Calls On Canadian Media To Step And Report On Climate Change
Many readers will recall Sean Holman’s BC based log ‘Public Eye Online.’ His commitment to journalism reporting all the news, and digging to get it is well known in media…
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The Council of Canadians on Trudeau’s Billion Dollar Blunder
The Council of Canadians has released a report on “How Canadians bought a climate killing pipeline.” The report was prepared by Gordon Laxer, political economist and professor emeritus at the…
$33USD/Hour To Match Wall St
If you’re working in a more just world, or if CEOs were less greedy, the minimum wage in the USA would be very different. People would be insulted by the…
Why Andrew Scheer Would Never Really Punish Michael Cooper
It's been only a week since Andrew Scheer declared that bigots are not welcome in his party. “I find the notion that one’s race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation would…
A Self-Confessed Climate Hypocrite Speaks
The Observer’s Sonia Sodha freely admits she is a climate hypocrite. She wants action on climate change. She has even voted Green. But she just can’t bring herself to do…
A Most Dangerous Time
Dominant powers come and go. Rome dominated for centuries and then it was gone. In more recent times, Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain have been top dog only to be…
The colonization of reconciliation
Photo by David Suzuki Foundation Canadians have been largely persuaded by politicians and mainstream media that the project of colonialism and assimilation of Indigenous Peoples is over. As the argument…
Statement to the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy
Last week had the privilege of appearing before the International Grand Committee (representatives from 12 countries) alongside Maria Ressa, Shoshana Zuboff, Jim Balsille, Heidi Tworek, Jason Kint, Ben Scott and…
Still here! (Sorta)
Its been awhile since I posted something here.. so I felt the need to add a blog entry to indicate I’m still alive. (If you read my twitter account at…
How Canada Claimed the Pole
Just in time, Canada has produced research backing our claim to the North Pole. And they got that research aboard a Coast Guard ship, the Louis St. Laurent. From Canadian…
It’s That Time of Year Again
It’s the distinct slapping sound made by the rotors of Huey helicopters that marks the beginning of a new season. The helos are from the forest fire fighting school a…
Fracking and Dams Don’t Mix
When you’ve got a dam you’ve got a reservoir and the last thing you want is a truly seismic event. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk writes that even Alberta can figure…
2,800 Years to Clean Up Alberta’s Petro-Mess
Let’s just call it ‘reclamation.’ The return of Alberta’s oil and bitumen fields to a pristine, natural state. The bad news? It could take up to 2,800 years. The good…
Oped on Christchurch Call, IGC and Digital Charter
Here is a recent oped in the Globe and Mail in advance of my appearance before the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy: Who will answer the…
A Call for Justice
Today is an important day in Canadian, as an important piece of work has been released to the public. The work of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of June 3, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of June 3, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of June 3, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 3, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: London, Ont., court to decide if police can access Facebook messages Flynn’s…
It’s Always Been Hard To Find Them
Peter Wehner offers a few thoughts this morning on the difficulty of governing. He writes in The New York Times: In the late 18th century, Edmund Burke wrote to a…
A Tale of Protestors Dressed as Handmaids
Ontarios’s very unpopular Conservative party is trying its best to not conserve women’s rights and this is obviously causing issues. The majority of people in the province don’t want women…