It Will Still Be FPTP But At Least Not a False Majority
With neither Scheer nor Trudeau closing in on a majority win, we can anticipate some government involving some parties that is at least far more representative than the last two…
2019
Election 2019: Where are we headed?
Polls and Seats: Divergent messages The polls in this campaign appear on the surface to be telling a similar story: a close election, outcome uncertain. However, different surveys, examined closely,…
Universal pharmacare is a progressive litmus test
Justin Trudeau is campaigning on a national pharmacare plan, but it’s important to note that the Liberal leader did not say this plan would be universal. In fact, the report…
The Home Stretch
Here we are on October 15th, a grand total of six days to go before Election Day and we know what Canadians will have chosen for their Parliament to look…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of October 15, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of October 15, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joao Medeiros writes about Mariana Mazzucato’s push to have governments use collective wealth and power for the common good. – Matt Elliott…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 15, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 15, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge rejects ‘extraordinary’ Trump immunity claim, orders 8 years of tax returns…
One more thing for Trudeau to worry about
Brexit, Trump victories etc. all make clear that a significant segment of committed conservative vote regularly hides from pollsters/media because they don’t want to be called racist, etc. Then they…
The Middle East Gets Messier
A week ago, Donald Trump gave Turkey the green light to invade Kurdish territory in Syria. Tom Walkom writes: By withdrawing American military forces who had been protecting the Kurds,…
Floating Garbage Bins Succeed in Toronto
@PortsToronto Infrastructure VP Chris Sawicki talks to media about how our new Seabins work to capture rubbish from #singleuseplastics to #microplastics smaller than a grain of rice. pic.twitter.com/ZWMClUIJzZ — PortsToronto…
On the home straight.
We are in the final week and nobody really knows how this election will play out. We tend to confuse what we hope will happen with what is really happening.…
No change in the weather? No change in we. #nlpoli
The problem we have is not a lack of options and opportunities to sort out the government finances ourselves. The problem facing Newfoundland and Labrador is that the leading people…
Those elusive Liberals of Edmonton Strathcona: Where did Mainstreet’s pollsters find them?
Volunteers for NDP candidate Heather McPherson’s campaign in the federal Edmonton-Strathcona riding are asking themselves, where the heck are those mobs of Liberal voters one pollster claims to have identified…
Great Tweet of the Day
Via the inimitable Dick King-Smith – you owe it to yourself to follow his tweets. Make sure to have the sound on for this one: Teddy the talking porcupine enjoys…
Commander in Least
I haven’t checked because I don’t want to ruin my amateur standing, but as far as I can remember, the US Constitution gives only one real job to a U.S.…
New Indiegogo campaign launched to raise funds for my new short film, “Big Snore”
Actor Scotty Murray during auditions for Big Snore Today, I launched a three-week Indiegogo campaign to help raise much-needed funds for my new narrative short film, Big Snore. I hope…
LIberals the Best Bet for Climate Change
A climate scientists, Katharine Hayhoe, and economist, Andrew Leach, seem to suggest that the Liberals are our best bet for tackling climate change if you averages the grades they gave…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Scott Schmidt highlights how the wealthy have seized any gains in economic growth over a period of decades. Michael Hobbes discusses the “glass…
And who is suing whom?
It came as a surprise to learn that the CBC has filed a complaint with the courts claiming that the conservative party has infringed on CBC copyright. I am not…