#Elxn44 Roundup
News and notes from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Dru Oja Jay discusses how activist movements can maximize their impact in a second consecutive minority Parliament by demanding meaningful and…
2021
Save the Planet from Your Kitchen
We are what we eat, and what we eat can change the world. All of us can make tiny changes in the kitchen to help reduce the harm modern food…
Jason Kenney says it ain’t so, but with Alberta’s high COVID-19 rates, a hard lockdown seems inevitable soon
Brace yourselves, Alberta, for a hard, circuit-breaker lockdown to rein in the province’s surging, out-of-control COVID-19 infection rate. We can be reasonably certain this is coming soon to Alberta’s error-riddled…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of September 27, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of September 27, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Perhaps Transformational
The recent election may look like a nothing-burger. But, Susan Riley writes. it could be transformational: If it produces an affordable national child care program, for example—and that work is…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 27, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 27, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Western University student denied tenancy by landlord who said her tattoos were…
Kenney Kills.
Our beautiful Alberta hardly deserves what is happening today. The province’s medical system is being crushed under the severity and numbers of the fourth wave of Covid-19. Yet it is…
Today’s news: maybe the Jan 6 insurrection actually messed up the plan?
Here’s an important new story about what was supposed to happen on Jan 6: This new interview by Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was…
Episode 78: Orange and Red in a Sea of Blue
Brad Lafortune joins Dave Cournoyer on the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the federal election results in Alberta, including NDP candidate Blake Desjarlais‘ spectacular win over Kerry Diotte in Edmonton-Griesbach, and…
Northeast BC — a sacrifice zone
While John Horgan’s government has been using billions of public dollars to improve profitability of private producers of fossil fuels, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) professor Élyse Caron-Beaudoin has been…
On Liberty and Alberta’s Covid Crisis
This is for the woman who yelled “Do you feel safer now?” when my daughter stepped off the sidewalk to give the woman and her rambunctious dog room to pass.…
Vote Kinney for Senator
Now that the federal election is out of the way, I turn my attention to the upcoming Calgary municipal election. Both the mayor and the councillor for my ward have…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen takes Alberta’s shame to the international stage by pointing out how the UCP’s “best summer ever” has given rise to…
This week’s Sparky: the basic dictatorship. Basically.
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My COVID-19 quarantine diary
My trip to the Northwest was originally planned for July 2020. I bought a Mexico City to Vancouver ticket from Aeromexico in February 2020, which was before the pandemic started.…
KINSELLACAST 178: Elections, hostages with Pierson, Lilley, Mraz – plus space music
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Bill Davis’s anti-worker legacy
Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis replies to students from Carleton University at the Skyline Hotel, March 17, 1981. Photo by Russell Mant/Ottawa Citizen. The death of former Ontario Premier…
Pardon My Obsession
If you have grown weary of my regular posts about the willful ignorance and stupidity of the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, please skip the following. A Texas bar and grill does…
Lessons From The Election
Robin Sears writes that there are three lessons we should take from the Federal election: Lesson one: We need a major overhaul of Elections Canada’s recruitment, training and election readiness.…
Over-Analyzing the Campaign.
We are in that period when all the pundits take credit for how smart they were during the election campaign. Frankly, if most of them would fall on their swords,…