Taxpayers’ contributions to publicly funded parochial schools appeared to be hard at work today in Edmonton as a throng of students from religious high schools throughout the province marched through…
For me, Jason Kenney’s victory is something new and novel to Alberta. Think about it this way, from 1935 to 2008, Alberta had always had a variety of conservative parties.…
Many good-willed environmentalists have made the argument that Alberta would be better if it left all of its bitumen in the ground. One of them replied to my last post.…
A few replies came in due to my last post and I was surprised by their disturbing tone and how some of them were laced with a sort of anger…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-us-withdrawal This one is very, very dangerous. It’s also without any excuse.Until shortly after World War Two, Iran was controlled by British oil companies. It was a dictatorship. And it…
I fell in love with Cookie the first time I saw her outside the library. I knew her current people wouldn’t keep her. Yada yada yada, today she joined our…
Tory senator, Lynn Beyak, has been given the boot. Beyak was suspended from the Senate for refusing to remove racist letters about First Nations from her web site. Beyak has…
As we all know, or should know, Andrew Scheer is a serial liar who mangles or mutilates the truth all the time.He's a religious fanatic who can't even respect the…
British Columbia’s oh-so-Liberal government earned a reputation for looking the other way on certain criminal activity, especially money-laundering. That’s Asian money-laundering. Dirty money spirited out of Asia, mainly China, and…
Surveillance capitalism is a truly 21st century innovation which is having a major impact on society. Policies around data protection and privacy aren’t strong enough yet and trade deals don’t…
The old growth forests near Port Renfrew have been spared from the axe for now. The ingredients in the dispute were potentially explosive with broadly based opposition including the BC…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Edward Keenan writes about the chaos being created by Doug Ford’s reckless and thoughtless slashing of crucial public services. CTV reports on…
The CBC is reporting that both Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are considering joing The Green Party: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said today she expects two former Liberal MPs…
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They wrote a speech the other day and ‘Chuckles’ Scheer, leader of Canada’s conservatives, read it. At the end of the day, Chuckles’ party had some foreign policy to show…
The chart below looks like there has been a huge jump up and down in “no choice” and a corresponding big change in party choice but actually there is some…
We Albertans have been living in a bit if a bubble – a bitumen bubble. As a consequence, we may not all have noticed what’s been happening on Canada’s West…
Check it out, around the six minute mark. Just in case you are wondering, it is considered highly, highly unethical for a lawyer to influence a witnesses’ testimony. And, sometimes,…
Theres only one taxpayer is not ideology, it’s math!
The chant “There’s only one taxpayer!” has come to mean “Me”, and, “Stop taking my money”. When Doug Ford says it, he means him, not you. When you say it,…