In the episode that aired on 26 May 2019, Premier Dwight Ball told NTV’s Issues and Answers that the deficit for the current budget is between $800 – $900 million.…
Premier Jason Kenney’s newly elected United Conservative Party introduced its second bill yesterday, calling it the Open for Business Act. The NDP immediately dubbed Bill 2 the Pick Your Pockets…
When it comes to climate change the Liberals take the cake for hypocrisy. Apparently some sinister force is thwarting their earnest efforts to declare a climate state of emergency for…
In 1997, Apple was a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. It was not Palm. It was not Research in Motion. While, Steve Jobs had returned to them…
In Canada over the past decade we’ve seen the continual growth of the phenomena of the “perpetual campaign”; when the campaign never seems to stop, running one into the next…
JWR and Philpott have announced that they will run as independents.
Give Jason Kenney, his predecessor, Rachel Notley, and our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, their due. When it comes to bitumen and bullshit they’ll lay it on just as thick as…
The day that many in the Canadian political scene has been waiting for has come. Both Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott held press conferences in their ridings, announcing their intentions…
“I did my job and spoke the truth…I will work with integrity.” @Puglaas on the three things @JustinTrudeau lacks. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/NVWipkgOzG — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 27, 2019 One of…
Wilson-Raybould has announced she’ll seek re-election in Vancouver-Granville as an independent. I expect her decision means that riding is lost to the Liberals even if she doesn’t win in October.…
In his book, “Collapse, How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail,” anthropologist, Jared Diamond, explores how societies past have repeatedly made absolutely rational, short-term choices that carried nihilistic consequences in…
The only good news out of the latest EU elections comes in the form of the impressive rise of the Green Party. The Guardian reports the Greens may have taken…
The EU elections showed that voters are abandoning old school politics and the same old, same old. Small wonder. Right wing populists appear to be the big winners but also…
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of May 27, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on May…
In a move that will surely swell the tiny hearts beating within the breast of Ford Nation, the Ontario government is eliminating a benefit that helps children of the poor,…
…and Doug Ford has. It isn’t ever easy to do, politically, but Ford deserves full credit for doing so. And kudos, big time, to John Tory. He led the charge,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC examines the obscene corporate subsidies doled out by Canadian governments – with Alberta ranking as the worst offender even as it also…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 27, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Is access to vegan food a human right? Ontario firefighter says it…
Andrew Scheer says that his environmental policy is a work in progress. But it really is hard to know what his party is thinking. It changes gears frequently. Rick Smith…
The Ontario Liberal Party will hold its first Annual General Meeting since the 2018 election next week in Mississauga. At that AGM, party members will be voting on a constitutional…
