Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides seems to have dropped his threat to cut off some or all of Athabasca University’s $41.2 million annual operating funds if the distance-learning institution…
A group of naive people believe that John Horgan’s departure will result in an open contest by which party members will elect a leader. But BC’s New Democratic Party is…
In my last post I wrote about reports that Pierre Poilievre is slowly but surely losing his marbles. The news that Stephen Harper's endorsement had done him more harm than…
Here in Ontario, the newly re-elected Conservatives under Doug Ford are making oblique sounds about private health care as a way to help solve our hospital crises. While we do…
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Quammen writes about the ongoing race between scientific discovery and an evolving coronavirus. And Heidi Sheehan reports on new research showing…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Twitter lawyer: No ‘exit ramp’ for Elon Musk out of takeover deal #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3QyC4S4 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
It may be a small conceit to say I was brought up watching the Marx Brothers movies on TV, but there’s some truth in that claim. I remember seeing them…
Mystic Generating Station, a gas and oil-fired power plant, located on the Mystic River in Everett, Massachusetts. Photo by Fletcher6/Wikimedia Commons. The announcement that US President’s Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act…
New democrat leader Jagmeet Singh is certainly not kidding. Justin Trudeau’s liberals will either carry out their end of the deal with Jagmeet’s party for their support or feel the…
Tuesday the Mar-A-Lago raid story was all the news. Today Trump refused to answer questions about his businesses, property evaluations and loans 400 times, taking the Fifth for every one…
Hey! Never mind defunding the police. What about defunding public education? Complaining about a call by Public Interest Alberta to phase out funding for independent schools, Danielle Smith once asked:…
We hear a lot about populists these days—politicians who appeal to ordinary folk on the grounds that their interests are ignored by the “elites.” Government, they insist, is in league…
The first World Happiness Report was presented in 2012. This week the 2022 report was published. Perhaps surprisingly, in most nations, average life evaluations have remained “remarkably resilient during COVID-19.”…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Maggie Mills discusses how an antisocial public health policy in the midst of an ongoing pandemic is producing a disastrous human cost (particularly…
The Ford government re-released its spring Budget this week with a new first quarter fiscal and economic update, providing a little bit more information, albeit from a government with a…
A Leger poll finds Canadians aren't warming to that cold fish, Pierre Poilievre. Another recent poll finds we're none too fond of the other guy either. Both results are easy…
A Leger poll finds Canadians aren't warming to that cold fish, Pierre Poilievre. Another recent poll finds we're none too fond of the other guy either. Both results are easy…
A Leger poll finds Canadians aren’t warming to that cold fish, Pierre Poilievre. Another recent poll finds we’re none to fond of the other guy either. Both results are easy…
There was a time they wouldn't shut up. Now, except for when they're safely inside some Republican festung, they're a lot less talkative.Trump showed up to a scheduled deposition today,…
