VERY Late Update on Pegida Go Fund Me Effort
So remember when I wrote that ARC would be updating regarding Pegida Canada’s effort to raise money on Go Fund Me to pay for the damages as a result of…
2019
Jagmeet Singh Lauded For Bravery After Opening Up About Sexual Abuse In New Book
Politically Independent Blogger The political turmoil taking in place in Britain, the USA, Ukraine and of course Canada is producing an all bets are off scenario when it comes to…
Psst! Look this way, PM Trudeau: Hope is nigh
Trudeau’s policy of fighting climate change is under fire in the provinces: In contrast, former federal Conservative cabinet minister James Moore said that the onus is on Trudeau to go…
Greens Could Win Tuesday In PEI Election Tuesday
A new vote projection points to a historic Green win in P.E.I. Philippe J. Fournier: Uncertainty remains high but a simplified 338 electoral model puts the Green Party just above…
A Modest Proposal
I know it’s a bit of a cliché for some to say, but honestly it’s an amazing time that we live in. Thanks to the technologies at our fingertips and…
Time To Seize Wealthy Canadian Citizen And Corporations Wealth Hidden In Tax Havens
We have been lied to by five successive Prime Ministers and who knows how many Premiers. The wealthy corporations and individuals get a free ride and lowly Canadians must pay…
Elizabeth and John’s BIG FAT GREEN WEDDING
Photograph By CHAD HIPOLITO, THE CANADIAN PRESS By Cindy Harnett Victoria Times-Colonist Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May and her husband John Kidder greet the public following their marriage during…
Symmetry
The crazies on both sides don’t like it. Whether you accuse Trudeau of supporting pedophilia (because he “shared a stage” with Ben Levin), or you accuse Scheer of supporting white…
What Would It Take to Avert a Mass Extinction?
Just when it seemed we were all doomed. A new report suggests how we might save planet Earth, averting a 6th mass extinction in the process. In a nutshell, all…
Those Ever So Tarry Sands
You know your country has descended into a petro-state by the arguments it invokes to excuse itself. The classic Tory line that’s now the Liberal line is that, gee shucks,…
The Racist Cons and the Fake News Election
I spent most of the long weekend far from the madding crowd, recovering from a particularly gruelling exam.With only the sound of the rain beating down, and a passing yacht…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast: Alberta & PEI Elections
Today I took the chance to record and post the next episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast. In this episode I gets provincial. I talk about the results of the…
Science and Society
I was asked: I’m a second-year student at Sciences Po Paris on the Nancy French-German campus. As part of a research project on the link between science and society, I’m…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robin Sears writes that it’s long past time for Canada’s wealthiest people and corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. And…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 22, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 22, 2019. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Assaulting “The People”
Antonia Zerbisias is keeping a list. She’s counting the things that Doug Ford is doing to make the lives of “the people” more miserable: Sometime in January, a list, a…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 21, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 21, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Federal judge compares Trump’s attacks on judiciary to KKK tactics Some Legal…
Can We Change by 2030?
The timeline of 12 years has stuck to the point that we’re continuing to say it after the first year has passed. We have until 2030, which is 11 years…
Your Monday Morning Thought
So glad that we have our heads screwed on straight. H/t Greg Perry Recommend this Post