One of the enduring myths of our era is that Albertans (or Canadians, or whomever) don’t like negative political advertising, and therefore that political attack ads won’t work here. Now…
Many guys will understand what I mean when I say this: your father is both a bit of light, and a bit of shadow, over your path through life. Mine,…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/haiti-quebec-canada-stranded-1.5019136 Haiti, after years of American-approved dictators, established a democracy. But it didn’t last long. The U.S. invaded, setting up a new dictatorship. (Canada, as usual, helped the U.S. along…
You can listen here Where do I get my pundit card? Sidebar: does that pundit card automatically make me histrionic as Rachel Curran, or do I have to work up…
It is Valentines Day and as such I thought I’d write about aromantic gesture from a very long time ago. The HangingGardens of Babylon was one of the Wonders of…
It came straight from the mouth of the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell. That reptilian old bastard announced that Trump will sign the bipartisan funding bill, preventing another shutdown, and…
This has been quite the week in Ottawa, between big snow storms and the political drama coming out of the PMO, and that just by the end of the day…
Hearing a poll is coming. Hearing that the pollster started fielding before #LavScam erupted. Hearing the pollster was also in the field for two days afterwards – and caught plenty…
The male Cowardly Chair of the Justice Committee opining on the reason why Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted. Spoiler alert: the Cowardly Chair thinks it’s lack of French. Seriously. He says…
Okay, I’m a curmudgeon.
The best argument I have heard in defence of SNC-Lavalin and how this government jury-rigged the criminal code is that it’s too big to fail. The people of Quebec, we’re…
This is an academic history of liberalism, in the form of what it calls a "conceptual history" – that...
Ever since I was I was a boy, I have been fascinated with robots, and today I have quite a collection of battery operated ones.Little and not so little ones…
America’s Green New Deal initiative is running into pushback from those who denounce it as “radical.” We’ve come to understand radical to mean something reckless, scary even dangerous. It actually…
This is an academic history of liberalism, in the form of what it calls a “conceptual history” – that is, it explores what its proponents (and to a certain extent…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 14, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
A bit of next week’s Hill Times column: The cowards included the House of Commons committee that professes to be all about “justice and human rights,” but doesn’t espouse either.…
When you work through the sound and fury, Alan Freeman writes, the SNC-Lavalin Affair is all about Quebec: SNC-Lavalin is one of those homegrown success stories. Its predecessor firm built…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Jackson presents a new Ipsos survey showing that the majority of American workers face stress issues at work. And Arthur White-Crumley…
If you watch the following interview with law professor Jennifer Quaid, you will find her take on the Omnibus Bill provision for the DPA (deferred prosecution agreement) that SNC-Lavalin salivates…
