Standard Operating Procedure
On the Right, lying has become standard operating procedure. Jim Stanford writes:The PR flacks working in the Conservative Party’s media war room are nothing if not zealous. They regularly issue…
Standard Operating Procedure
On the Right, lying has become standard operating procedure. Jim Stanford writes:The PR flacks working in the Conservative Party’s media war room are nothing if not zealous. They regularly issue…
But Only If You Agree With Me
Free speech is great. It is a principle that most people claim to support, but sometimes that support is contingent upon the subject under consideration. In a shameful episode yesterday,…
Boomer landlords are holding housing hostage
Our elders should never have been compelled to involve themselves in real estate ponzi schemes to attain a dignified retirement. Our parents and grandparents deserve better. Photo courtesy the Library…
Today’s News: Show Me The Money! Why Trump wasn’t impeached in 2020
Listen to Republican H.R. McMaster straight-up confirm the basis of the *first* Trump impeachment: that Trump stalled critical military aid for Ukraine to try to get election dirt on the…
Outrageous! Is there anything left to be said?
I searched Google to see if Postmedia's Vancouver Sun had reported on this outrageous story. A friend thinks Tyler Olsen is probably BC's hardest working journalist. His tiny team at…
Canadian Public Health Has Spoken
Apparently we're all in with Pfizer and Moderna despite Novavax providing significantly better protection and fewer risks.Trudeau claimed to want Canada to be a producer of Novavax back in 2020,…
An Attack On One Is An Attack On All
As we move from the summer doldrums to the fall political season in Alberta (and Canada in general), there are some things we need to talk about. Specifically, we need…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Rohde surveys yet another month of record-high temperatures from July 2024. And Richard Heinberg examines what a real energy transition would look like…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 26, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: How will the new school cellphone bans actually be enforced? #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/GpfCyVi7fM - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of August 26, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 26, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 26, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:NY Lawsuit seeks to allow Canadian Hockey League players to play in NCAA.…
Conservatives find that proposing media reform is a dangerous minefield
Pierre Poilievre holds George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a prop during Question Period, March 30, 2023. Photo courtesy CPAC. It isn’t even Labour Day yet and federal ...
Serbia’s ‘green transition’ undermining local interests
Thousands of activists attend a protest in Belgrade, Serbia, against Rio Tinto’s plan to mine lithium in the Balkan country. Photo courtesy FoNet Zoran Mrđa. For world leaders, Serbia is…
Today’s News: President of Joy
David Rothkopf writes Navigating Bullshitworld How Do We Keep the Fires of the DNC Burning When So Many Seek to Douse Them With Torrents of Crap?: As the peaks of…
NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi spotted at an NDP BBQ in Calgary, preaching to the choir
I had coffee with my old friend Buff yesterday, and Buff had a theory about what’s happened to NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi since his slam dunk 86-per-cent victory over all…
Nenshi Visits Calgary-Elbow
Naheed Nenshi has been busy visiting NDP constituencies across the province. This afternoon he came to the Calgary-Elbow Constituency BBQ. After a (very) enthusiastic introduction from NDP MLA Samir Kayande,…
Railway relief
Sighs of relief could be heard across the country when federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon... The post Railway relief first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Why I Left Twitter
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter(1) and renamed it "X", I've been toying with abandoning the platform. I don't like Musk to begin with, but at the same time the…