LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday February 12, 2019. Today we are talking about Employment Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Keith Stewart writes about the determination of the oil industry to push people to vote for environmental destruction. But as an alternative,…
Big Man, Small Brain
Doug Ford has taken an axe to education spending in Ontario. He has killed Ontario’s new French university. He’s ended free tuition to students of limited means. And now under…
Will Climate Collapse the Economy? Sure It Will.
Climate change is many things. Among them, it’s a great disrupter. We are by now too familiar with scenes of torrential floods, withering droughts, crippling Polar Vortex winter storms that…
Trump and Trudeau fail Venezuela.
Venezuela’s oil-based economy continues to collapse. The Americans are helping it collapse. And what the Canadian interest is, defies imagination. The corrupt and destructive Nicolás Maduro regime in the country,…
Now, about that unconstitutional dog that ate Stephen Mandel’s homework …
It’s time for something completely different: a podcast! Don’t worry, it’s not mine. We’re not about to start podcasting here at AlbertaPolitics.ca, where old-timey newspaper columns that have a beginning,…
"LavScam" – Gee, That Sounds Like "AdScam"
I don’t know who coined the term “LavScam” to describe the SNC-Lavalin controversy but it does bring back memories of a real Liberal scandal during the government of a fellow…
Horror Vacui
When it comes to the world that we live in, it’s amazing how some principles from one field remain very true in others. In regards to politics the world over,…
Kenny Controls the Narrative, Why is this a Surprise?
We’ve been so focused on Jason Kenney’s public rhetoric that we didn’t see him transform the Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose MLAs into a bunch of hush puppies ready to recite…
When (criminal) worlds collide
Just so we are all clear: the PMO staffers suspected of meddling in a criminal prosecution in #LavScam are the very same PMO staffers suspected of meddling in a criminal…
The novelty and fragility of liberal-democracy
I’ve been reading a scholarly history of liberalism. It isn’t directly about this, but as it reminds me of things that I already knew in broad strokes and fills in…
#LAVSCAM EXCLUSIVE, MUST CREDIT WWW.WARRENKINSELLA.COM!
Justin Trudeau’s lines for his avail in B.C. this afternoon! @JustinTrudeau holding lines: 1. We welcome the Ethics Commissioner probe.2. I have great confidence in Ms. Wilson-Raybould.3. We have not…
The American Left Resurgent: Prospects and Tensions
Photo by Dimitri Rodriguez The American political system is experiencing a crisis of hegemony. The moderate, bipartisan center that had been the mythical linchpin of American politics during the “long…
#LavScam: your turn, RCMP and Justice Committee
Jagmeet Singh, it turns out, is doing what an Opposition leader should: ETHICS COMMISSIONER AGREES TO NDP REQUEST, LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO JUSTIN TRUDEAU & SNC-LAVALIN OTTAWA – On Monday, the…
Ethics Commissioner to Investigate
For those who are following this SNC-Lavalin dustup, the Ethics Commissioner has launched an investigation into allegations that the PMO interfered in the prosecution.
JWR’s Dad speaks – and he pulls no punches
From his Facebook page. I agree with every word. Bill Wilson Yesterday at 11:51 AM “THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES” – JODY was demoted because she would not “play ball”…
how to eat tuna
Some years ago, after reading about overfishing and the horrendous state of our oceans, I vowed to stop eating tuna. Certain species of tuna are on the brink of extinction,…
You should be impressed by this
I know I am. A brave and exceptional statement by this Liberal MP. My statement regarding the allegation of attempted political interference in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin:#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/FJ382koggu —…
winter hike: beaver lake and port alice
We’ve had so many gloriously cold and sunny days! I don’t know if that’s unusual for January and February or if I was oversold on the rain, but I love…