Our bargaining unit has reached a tentative agreement and have returned to work while we await the results of a ratification vote. We didn’t get everything we wanted, of course,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Delphine Strauss and Jamie Smyth highlight how long COVID is already preventing millions of people from working – with far more likely to…
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The Conservatives are stuck. That’s the lesson behind Pierre Poilievre’s quest for the leadership of the party. Michael Harris writes: Poilievre’s camp is hitching his alleged vaulting popularity to the…
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 18, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge to decide if former Alberta justice minister is in contempt of…
I posted this on social media, and it garnered some notice: At almost half a million distinct views in four days, it’s doing considerably better than my entire blog! Of…
There is no more powerful weapon than information. It is used by the good people as well as the bad. It can be used by a Donald Trump to spread…
My theme tonight is from a Maya Angelou quote: ““Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” First, the Ukraine refugee crisis had topped…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 10, 2022. The lists are compiled…
The Soapbox family is not terribly religious but we do love our traditions. Last night we gathered to colour eggs. Mr Soapbox bought a couple of egg colouring kits, we…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Sam Gindin discusses the need to push back against the narrative that inflation caused by supply chain disruptions and corporate greed will…
So many of my posts are about wars and politics. Here’s some tweets I have assembled from the “lighter side” that everyone will enjoy, I hope: I love watching the…
Canada is negotiating the purchase of 88 F-35 strike fighters. The F-35 comes in three flavours – A, B, and C. The B model is a vertical lift variant preferred…
It is 13 years now that Andrea Horwath has been leading Ontario’s new democrats. It has been a sad four years of lacklustre leadership that Horwath has provided the official…
Does anyone remember the time Vice President Dan Quayle mangled the United Negro College Fund line “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” when he said ” What a…
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 – including, importantly, our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The English-language version of…
Latvian eggs: dyed with onion skins only. These were done a couple of years ago when Easter was earlier, and there was still snow on the ground. But I did…
