Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monika Dutt offers a reminder that some of the best investments we can make in improving public health are aimed at social factors:…
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140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of February 17, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 17, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Police arrest anti-pipeline protesters at Vancouver port as they enforce court injunction…
An Effective Rebuke To Trumpland Republicans
Filmmaker Matthew Cooke provides much-needed perspective and context as a counter to the far-right rhetoric that relentlessly seeks to undermine faith in government. Well-worth five minutes of our time: H/t…
Dying In Plain Sight
Democracy is dying in the United States. And its death is very much a public death. Max Boot quotes Montesquieu: “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not…
Meet you on the barricades
Canada has 49,000 km of rail lines. It has 38,000 km of highways. It has 550 port facilities. Anyone who thinks police can go in and shut down a barricade…
Coteau fights on for Ontario leadership.
In an e-mail the other day, Michael Coteau promised his supporters that he will fight on against the status quo for Ontario liberals. With Steven Del Duca poised with a…
Settlement in ExxonMobil dispute #nlpoli
CNLOPB regulates the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore The Government of Canada and ExxonMobil have reached a settlement in the oil company’s 16-year-old dispute over the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum…
Mark Carney, named UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, says the smart money is on transition from fossil fuels
Environmental and banking system protestor wears a mask of Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney as they demonstrate outside the Bank of England demanding that the bank rule…
A Family Day toast to Don Getty, whose record is underwhelming, but whose best-known achievement was one for the ages
The winters around here are long. Even with social media Canadians need a February holiday. Come to think of it, given what the Internet has turned into in the few…
Delusion, deception, inertia
Faced with a choice between respecting Supreme Court confirmed indigenous governance and serving foreign financial interests (Shell, Petronas, and PetroChina), BC NDP joined with the land polluters, not the land…
Eating off the Hill: The best wings in a non-wing city?
While the best chicken wings can be found in Buffalo, there are nearly as good wings to be had elsewhere. When in Toronto, I’m partial to Duff’s Famous Wings. While…
Family Day Alberta Style
Tomorrow is Family Day in Alberta. While we wait for Jason Kenney’s Family Day announcement extolling the virtues of the family and maybe throwing in a reference to Albertans as…
Putting the RCMP raid on the Wet’suwet’en in historical perspective
Protesters and land defenders erect a barricade in Vancouver in support of the Wet’suwet’en, who are blocking a pipeline from being built on their land. Photo by Sally T. Buck…
The Wet’suwet’en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law: An Explainer
A land defender holds iconic solidarity art at the blockade on CN Rail near Pioneer Village in Toronto, where protestors gathered for a direct action on the second-largest rail classification…
An Open Letter to Bill Barr – "Be Gone"
1,100 signatures. Democrats and Republicans alike. That’s quite a few. They’re sending a message to Trump’s lapdog Attorney General, Bill Barr – Go, Go Now. More than 1,100 former federal…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heesu Lee reports on Greenpeace’s estimate that air pollution costs the world nearly $3 trillion every year. And Damien Cave writes that…
help nominate tommy douglas as the face of the next $5 bill
There’s a movement to put the face of Tommy Douglas on the next Canadian $5 bill. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? And wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants to…
help nominate tommy douglas as the face of the next $5 bill
There’s a movement to put the face of Tommy Douglas on the next Canadian $5 bill. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? And wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants to…
help nominate tommy douglas as the face of the next $5 bill
There’s a movement to put the face of Tommy Douglas on the next Canadian $5 bill. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? And wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants to…