Donnie Rosa to lead Vancouver Park Board as General Manager
August 31 2020 The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and City of Vancouver will welcome an experienced municipal leader to the role of General Manager, Parks and Recreation, when…
August 2020
BC Hydro Annual Report
In the fiscal year ended March 31, to its residential, commercial and industrial customers, BC Hydro sold 1.6% less electricity than in the previous year. The volume in 2019-2020 was…
Could Street Violence Lead To A Trump Victory?
With just over two months to go before the election, Donald Trump is clearly feeling the heat. He must be finally realizing that he could lose, and end up in…
In Parts of the United States, the Civil War is Still Unfinished Business
Colfax, Louisiana is what the New York Times calls a ‘flyspeck’ town. Today the town is remembered for the ‘Colfax Riot’ when, in 1873, white supremacists massacred scores of former…
Some Good News? Ya Want Some Good News?
I just finished a telephone consult with my GP. I’m still not sold on over-the-phone medicine but these are unusual times. Among other things I wanted to know about this…
Pathfinder Press and Black Rose Books Now Available at Leftwingbooks.net
We are happy to announce that books from two new publishers are now available from leftwingbooks.net: Black Rose Books and Pathfinder Press. You can check out some of their titles…
Enough
As the month of August ends and an end of the summer is just around the corner, it’s hard to find any positives out there. Really it feels like the…
September Sale at Leftwingbooks.net!
Fall is approaching, and while we love the winter it is bitersweet as normally we would be gearing up to table at various conferences, universities, and bookfairs. Not this year!…
The Unraveling of America
Originally published by Rolling Stone LONG READ Wade Davis August 6, 2020 8:00AM ET Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era The COVID crisis…
Doug Ford and neoliberalism: ‘Opening Ontario’ by shutting down democratic process
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks with reporters, March 20, 2020. Photo courtesy of FordNation/Twitter. One of the main tensions that has come to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic is…
Unmasked: The Pandora’s Box Of The Valley
WHERE DO WE STAND North Cowichan How we treat people is how we will treat the forests. While writing an article about bullying in Maple Bay recently, I asked…
Personal Learning: Taking Ownership of Learning Online: Part One
Note: this is an unedited audio transcript generated by the Google sound recorder app on my Pixel 4. In the future I may edit it (or if you want to,…
Energy policy undermined by special interests
Difficulty justifying billions of dollars spent to meet a need that has not existed is no real problem for people who benefit from the expenditures. After years of arguing falsely…
Episode 59: The Fiscal Reckoning and Alberta’s 70-year old Revenue Problems
After a very eventful summer in Alberta politics, Dave and Adam tackle big questions about Alberta’s fiscal challenges (and revenue problems) and Premier Jason Kenney’s promised ” fiscal reckoning,” the…
Lessons We Must Learn From COVID-19 to Build a Better Society
Community is the key to the future. Those societies that are fairing best in responding to COVID 19 are those with a strong sense of community. America’s dismal response is…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Hannah Aldridge writes that we should be expecting far more from the provinces in taking care of people in the course of the…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of August 31, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of August 31, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Aug…
Don’t Blame Me
Andrew Rawnsley writes that Boris Johnson’s government is guided by the “novel doctrine of total power with absolutely no responsibility.” Consider what has happened to the principle of ministerial responsibility…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 31, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 31, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: This recent grad lost his gig at a Toronto bank. Then his…
Oh America!
Watching events on the south side of the White House the other night was traumatic. My American mother had taught all six of her children that the Canada-U.S. border was…