Husky and Come by Chance Updates #nlpoli
There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have. It has nothing to do with the gibberish of "decarbonization" or…
2020
Husky and Come by Chance Updates #nlpoli
There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have. It has nothing to do with the gibberish of "decarbonization" or…
Husky and Come by Chance Updates #nlpoli
There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have. It has nothing to do with the gibberish of “decarbonization” or…
Activate the COVID Alert App in Alberta. Activate it right now!
With coronavirus pandemic surging in most parts of Canada, most definitely including Alberta, the federal government needs to make its COVID Alert exposure notification app available in this province immediately.…
Horgan’s gamble pays off big: B.C. NDP win historic majority government
The post Horgan’s gamble pays off big: B.C. NDP win historic majority government first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Chris Champion and the Curriculum Review
Mr Kenney handpicked Mr Champion, a historian, as a subject area expert to provide recommendations for the Kenney government’s revamp of the social studies curriculum for kindergarten to grade 4…
Large Danish trial could put an end to the masking debate…
A large randomized control trial could finally put an end to the whole masking debate. Three Danish hospitals as well as the Technical University of Denmark have conducted what may…
Remembering Québec’s October Crisis
Troops on Montréal streets during the October Crisis, 1970. Photo courtesy the Toronto Star archives. 50 years ago this month, the federal government, invoking the War Measures Act—its first use…
BC NDP cruise to a majority, but the real work lies ahead
BC NDP leader John Horgan speaks during a campaign stop, October 12, 2020. Photo from Flickr. As widely predicted, British Columbia’s NDP government has renewed its mandate with a thumping…
Nothing to fear this Halloween
I was never a big fan of Halloween as a kid. I always had a fear of being mugged by bigger kids who might rip open my pillow case and…
Sunday Afternoon #skvotes Links
The latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign as election day approaches tomorrow. – A new poll shows the race tightening significantly, including with the NDP holding a significant lead in…
This week’s Sparky: the problem ain’t going away, folks!
This week’s Sparky: the problem ain’t going away, folks! pic.twitter.com/QY1dXUhSel — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 25, 2020
Trump is a symptom, not the cause
A friend was recently expressing hope that the political party I work for, the Democrats, will emerge triumphant in November, taking both the White House and the Senate. I said…
The Morning After: The 42nd British Columbia General Election
Yesterday may have been a Saturday but we saw something out in British Columbia that we rarely see on a weekend in this country; an election day. It marked the…
Sunday #skvotes Links
News and notes on election eve in Saskatchewan. – Julia Peterson reports on a record number of new COVID-19 cases in the province yesterday, while CKOM reports that Saskatoon’s Lighthouse…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Umair Haque warns that we may be approaching the point where the cost of fighting man-made threats to our environment exceeds the…
BC Election Preliminary Voting Results
2020 Provincial General Election Preliminary Voting Results Home Election Results by Candidate Election Results by Party The following are preliminary voting results from initial count. Read about initial count.…
Rotten To Its Core
Max Boot used to be a Republican cheerleader. He’s not cheering now. Things, he writes, have changed: I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party was known as the…
Don’t blame Singh.
If there was ever a guy on the wrong side of the parliamentary ledger, it is Jagmeet Singh of the new democrats. While the rest of the opposition thought they…