CALGARY Stand by for a veritable tempest of wailing about “activist judges” from banking, oil industry and conservative quarters, now that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled bankrupt fossil…
The question is how degraded has the Salish Sea already become from shipping traffic out of Canada’s largest port, Vancouver. Indigenous groups from Canada and the US want hard answers…
Two elite Paris police officers have been convicted of raping a Canadian woman who had been invited to tour their police headquarters. They each won a 7-year stretch in the…
Today there are 16,000 desalination plants in operation converting sea water into fresh water for countries beset by water insecurity. Finally the United Nations is reporting what critics have known…
It’s the law. Canadian energy companies must clean up old wells and cannot rely on bankruptcy as a mechanism to pillage the public. The top court’s ruling released Thursday overturns…
The simple fact is that we live in an age of rapid technological change that is largely alien to older people. Think back to when you had to set the…
Most of Canada is in a deep freeze as the Polar Vortex sweeps down from the Arctic. It’s cold. It’s killer cold. It’s also your new normal or at least…
To the untutored and blunt mind, the world is black and white. Incapable of nuanced thinking, it apprehends things only as they immediately appear. While, as the old saying goes,…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday January 31, 2019. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
There are already more than enough galling stories circulating in Alberta’s political scene to emphasize why Jason Kenney and his party are grossly unfit to exercise any power. But it’s…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Hedges points out how the obscenely rich few are trying to distract from their accumulation of wealth in order to avoid…
Dear people of Durham, we need to talk about Erin O’Toole. Your Minister of Parliament is becoming a national joke when it comes to Twitter. Times Erin O’Toole has directly…
But I look forward to Andrew Scheer’s outraged tweet to Google!
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 27, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
It’s time. Canada’s conservatives can no longer keep their leader a secret. Bloggers and broadcasters, reporters and speech writers are all digging into his history to find something to say…
Following Liberal defeat in the Nanaimo byelection, Global TV reporter Sarah MacDonald talked to Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson for the 11pm newscast. Breathlessly, she asked what is probably the worst…
This is methane gas trapped in the ice of Abraham Lake, Alberta. Across the north, methane gas and CO2 are being released from the thawing permafrost and from lake beds…
Russia, why would Russia want to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump and the fixing of the 2016 presidential election? US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on…
Dear 16; I do not write this to embarrass you, or to overshare. That’s the great thing about remaining anonymous on the interwebs. I do not write this as amateur…
Ms. Bellringer is another highly paid failure. She did not protect taxpayers by examining for fraud when warning signals had been issued. Auditors have access that citizen watchdogs do not.…
