Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Oxford Global Projects has written about proponents getting large undertakings approved by using “strategic misrepresentation” when they conjure up budgets. Strategic misrepresentation…
Having announced Monday it would spend $9 million cooking up a fanciful provincial railway “masterplan” that includes a public transit component, the United Conservative Party Government yesterday informed Edmonton and…
Shadowy cat.
By consensus, climate scientists believe that future restorative actions will be futile if policies followed today are insufficient. In our daily lives, we routinely limit or reduce potential harms. However,…
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stan Cox writes about the looming eco-collapse – and its connection to a relentless focus on top-heavy “growth” with no regard for…
Here: Similarly, consultant Warren Kinsella said: “At the firm I founded 18 years ago, and in the war rooms I’ve run for the past 31 years, I’ve employed hundreds of…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Harmful and discriminatory’: Ontario school board investigating video showing comments staff member made towards student wearing a keffiyeh #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mssd8tsw – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left, by Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky. Published by…
Source: Ziegler and Trancik (2021) before 2018 (end of data), BNEF Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook (2023) since 2018, BNEF Lithium-Ion Battery Price Survey (2023) for 2015-2023, RMI analysis. The baseline…
Less (sic) taxes is, for On the Bay‘s publisher David Loopstra, a “solution” for the problems of inflation. It’s certainly not the solution for correct grammar, where he should have…
Can an employer significantly change your job duties while you are on parental leave? Pursuant to the Employment Standards Act, in most cases, an employee who takes pregnancy/parental leave is…
A banner reading “UCLA Says Free Palestine” adorns the encampment walls at Royce Quad at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 25, 2024, Westwood, California. Photo courtesy Santa…
There’s lots of talk these days about Justin Trudeau resigning. Michael Harris writes: With Trudeau having notched three electoral victories since 2015, nobody is going to push him out —…
Photo by Ken Teegardin/Flickr The latest federal budget has provoked outrage among some of the wealthiest people in the country. They regard a change to the way we tax capital…
AAccording to MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu, a bountiful supply of good jobs is the best way to generate shared prosperity and also to cultivate civic and political participation from…
The worst thing about the seemingly endless Alberta NDP leadership race isn’t that it’s boring, although it is. NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). It’s that the…
We dined recently at an “upscale casual” restaurant in Port Coquitlam. The service and the food were fine, but I was troubled by the noise level. My iPhone decibel meter…
Taaaaaall Cup Across Canada sports events are held every year which have a royal connection or an award connecting back to the monarchy. I wrote about one such event last…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario to ban use of cellphones in school classrooms starting in September #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yc5tx2d7 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
