North Cowichan council approved a staff report Thursday aimed at producing a Biodiversity Protection Policy, with only Mayor Al Siebring speaking against the idea due to the ongoing cost…
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To hear them tell it, China is picking a fight with Taiwan, sending an armada of bombers and fighters into Taiwanese air space. By “them” I mean the hawks in…
There have been a number of American pundits predicting that the Republicans will retake control of the Senate next year and add the House and the presidency in 2024 in…
In an article in CollingwoodToday titled 18 simple rules? Council receives draft of new Code of Conduct, we learn that council is looking to update and revise its current Code…
As I tried to suggest in my post the other day, rich people really are different from us, and people like Justin Trudeau, part of that rarified group, have no…
Assorted content to end your week. – Thomas Saunders discusses how COVID-19 transmission through schools is resulting in effectively a separate epidemic among children and parents. Kathy Eagar offers a…
Justin Trudeau with family on election night Sept 20 20201 – Christinne Muschi/Reuters] I’m late to the game with this analysis of the recently completed Canadian federal election, so my…
Eugene Robinson asks an important question: How dumb can a nation get and still survive? In the United States these days, dumb is everywhere: Our elected representatives in the U.S.…
The ongoing war with the State of Michigan is heating up. Canada’s federal government has now invoked a 1977 treaty that supposedly says that Canada can destroy the fresh water…
It is fairly bizarre, now that you mention it, that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is plowing ahead with his constitutionally meaningless anti-equalization referendum at a moment he’s so messed up…
Liberal democracy, as widely observed, is in retreat around the world. How much more can it take before it’s in rout? Tribalism is sweeping America. We have in our own…
Kudos to Joe Biden. He’s conducted something of a “stress test” for America, a precautionary step Canada’s government ought to have taken a long time ago. On Thursday, the White…
The Amazon rainforest is disappearing at what should be an alarming rate. 312 sq. mi. or 808 sq. kms. every day. Over the past 30 years humans have destroyed a…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carrie Tait reports on the spate of readmissions of COVID-19 patients to Alberta hospitals, while Zak Vescera points out the large number…
We’re almost two years into an ongoing pandemic, yet all the lessons learned in jurisdictions worldwide about vaccinations and public safety have apparently simply drifted past our inept and gormless…
Sorry, but Justin Trudeau likes apologies. He does. He makes them all the time. Everyone has noticed. The BBC even published a story about The Apologist-In-Chief, asking: “Does Justin Trudeau…
They’re Trump people and they’re staging a mini-exodus from blue to red states. Across North America, the pandemic has caused people to rethink where they live. The flight from city…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: GTA tenant who turned a dozen luxury homes into rooming houses faces more charges via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
CBC News reported this morning that, just six days after Jody Wilson Raybould was sworn in as justice minister, the federal government abandoned an appeal of a decision that took…
