Social media and politicians. Lets do a roundup,shall we? The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was apparently watching TV before Christmas. A charity thing came on. It was raising…
Despite glasnost and all the disarmament talk since Reagan and Gorbachev inked the IRT, the world is still up to its arse in nuclear weapons. There are silo-launched ICBMs like…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday February 5, 2019. Today we are talking about Employment Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Australian journalist Richard Flanagan writes that Tasmania is on fire: As I write this, fire is 500 metres from the largest King Billy pine forest in the world on Mt…
It was one of Andrew Scheer's most disgusting attack ads ever, one that started as a Nazi meme in Eastern Europe.His outrageous claim that the U.N. Global Compact for Migration…
He's only been in office for just over seven months, but already Doug Ford is the worst Premier Ontario has ever known.He clearly doesn't know what he's doing, and to…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonathan Watts interviews David Wallace-Wells about the existential threat posed by climate breakdown – and our gross failure to act in the…
It might seem obvious that companies should pay for damaging property, but that wasn’t the case for years. Up to now companies in Canada were able to extract resources from…
Watch out Lisa Raitt. The liberals are coming. As conservative MP for Milton electoral district, Lisa Raitt has a long, hard fight ahead of her to try to hold on…
While most hereditary chiefs among Canada’s FirstNations don’t have a formal role in governance there are atleast two places where they do. They are the Buffalo PointFirst Nation and the…
Last week the Clann which is an amalgam of the Wolves of Odin (which was formerly the Soldiers of Odin), Patriot Pride Canada, Canadian Infidels, Odin's Heathens, and a partridge…
A dignified official portrait of Jim Prentice, last Progressive Conservative premier of Alberta, was unveiled in the Alberta Legislature yesterday. It’s a very nice piece of official portraiture that does…
Photo by María Alejandra Mora American economic sanctions have been the worst crime against humanity since World War Two. America’s economic sanctions have killed more innocent people than all of…
Photo by Eoghan OLionnain International observers to Venezuela’s elections have written to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, about the problems with the…
As the Brexit rollercoaster keeps heading for what could be the catastrophe of a no-deal, you can feel the panic building in Britain People are hoarding food and medicine.There are…
That stupid silly Grin It’s almost a year out from the next federal election and already politicians are drawing attention to issues of immigration and national security, making claims that…
Recent revelations that the Trump administration doesn’t know how many thousand migrant children it might have separated from their parents or even where they wound up were shocking enough. But…
Photo by Socialist Appeal Most Canadians think of their country as a force for good in the world, but recent efforts by Justin Trudeau’s government to overthrow Venezuela’s elected government…
The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around…
It’s a classic con – two sets of books. There’s one set “cooked” for public consumption to mislead investors, creditors and regulators and another set of books that reveals the…
