This what a ministerial directive looks like. It’s from Global Affairs, but they all do it this way. It’s formal. It’s done in writing. A scared-looking Trudeau denies “directing” his…
It's not always easy to love our country at this time of the year.Not when it has been so cold recently the ducks where I live have been reduced to…
The five hottest years on record have been the last five years on record. Five for five. What’s that mean to you? NASA scientists confirmed in a report Wednesday that…
Just a brief comment today about Paul Dewar. He was a rare politician. He stood firmly for what he believed. But he could also rise above the fray. We used…
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly;…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday February 7, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Iglika Ivanova discusses how British Columbia can move toward eliminating poverty in its next budget. – Patrick Maze points out the need…
We’re presently living in the anthropocene and it’s all our fault. The effects of industrialization will be felt for thousands of years to come and be evident millions of years…
Ontario premier Doug Ford must admire the past. His government keeps reaching back in time to the solutions of the 1930s. The latest is to return to those times when…
Is Justin Trudeau’s PMO corrupt? And did they punish the first female indigenous leader for refusing to go along with a dirty deal for their cronies? This Globe and Mail…
The latest poll from MQO is being reported as a statistical tie by NTV , while CBC says it shows a “neck and neck” race between the PCs and Liberals.…
You know, the reactionary Yellow Vesters really are doing a poor job of vetting their supporters…. unless the presence of neo-Nazis is a feature and not a bug (spoiler: it…
In the days around the time @SKGov shut down STC, I was on the phone with Greyhound Canada (PR people in Texas), trying to get an answer for why they…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 3, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
I remember wading ashore six years ago, at a place called Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands, and coming across an amazing sight.Thousands of monarch butterflies clustered on a couple…
As everybody knows Andrew Scheer and his climate change denying Cons are on a crusade to try to destroy the Liberal government's carbon tax plan.A tax Scheer blames for everything,…
Being involved in politics for over a decade, one gets to have many great experiences and gets to know many amazing people. I know that’s the case for me, and…
Paul Dewar died on Gord Downie’s birthday. There is certain type of irony to that, as both men died from the same illness. Paul Dewar was an idealist, he was…
When Trump launched his trade wars he didn’t pay much attention to those Americans likely to become his collateral damage. Among those were America’s farmers. According to the Wall Street…
A great Parliamentarian, and a great Ottawan. He will be missed.
