Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 16, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 16, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump pledges more legal actions over U.S. election, makes aggressive fundraising pitch…
November 2020
How the KKK capitalized on Canada’s racism
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom Allan Bartley Formac, 2020 Aside from accounts of the many acts of horrific,…
Choosing Gambling Is Easy
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Turkey or turmoil for Christmas.
Do you ever get a feeling that something is off and you are not entirely sure what it is? It has been bothering me for a while. There is a…
Policy Pixelation #nlpoli
The members of the House of Assembly voted unanimously at the end of October to set up a committee to decide how to give everyone in the province a cheque…
Policy Pixelation #nlpoli
The members of the House of Assembly voted unanimously at the end of October to set up a committee to decide how to give everyone in the province a cheque…
Policy Pixelation #nlpoli
The members of the House of Assembly voted unanimously at the end of October to set up a committee to decide how to give everyone in the province a cheque…
Alberta in the context of the Great Reset
The Great Reset should be of no surprise to long time readers of my blog. I’ve been discussing the various facets of the coming new-feudalist system for years now, such…
Corporate lobbyist and former aide to two Conservative premiers named University of Alberta external relations VP
A high-profile lobbyist with connections to past Alberta Conservative governments and involvement in a controversial effort to open a large private hospital in Edmonton has been named as the University…
Confronting Medical Colonialism: “Fighting for a Hand to Hold” Online Speaking Tour
Samir Shaheen-Hussain, author of Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Violence against Indigenous Children in Canada (25% off with coupon code THEKIDSAREALRIGHT at leftwingbooks.net), will be doing several…
Premier Kenney Takes A Road Trip
On Nov 13, 2020 when: The number of confirmed covid cases in Alberta smashed through the 1000 cases a day threshold and covid threatens to swamp Alberta’s healthcare system, and…
On missed opportunities
There has been plenty of commentary and analysis about the results of Saskatchewan’s provincial election – including some discussion on the theme of an overly risk-averse NDP campaign. But I’ll…
Nov.13: Save the cheers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/25-trillion-theft-study-shows-richest-1-americans-have-taken-50-trillion-bottom-90 Forgive me for this very incomplete report. I am having a terrible time in figuring how to use my new computer – including such things as giving a full…
Canada’s housing strategy needs a reset—human rights and public ownership, not markets
Pedestrians walk past a homeless man in downtown Toronto. Photo by Simon Carr/Flickr. Today in Canada, in the midst of a deepening economic downturn, more than 35,000 people are without…
Sanity has returned to the US (hopefully).
As of this writing, Donald Trump has not conceded the US Presidential race, but that doesn’t matter. Joe Biden is the President-elect and Trump’s court cases that have charged voter…
Whither Trumpism?
Donald Trump is headed for the exit. But the movement he spawned isn’t, Robin Sears writes — unless Trump refuses to leave the stage: Political movements and their parties rarely…
WHAT THE SOUL NEEDS
Yesterday I was reminded how good it feels to be human. I realized the great effort I have been making to be OK during this pandemic without much touch or…