Premier of Alberta or premier of the oil industry?
Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith has made her stand. Her loins girded by her Sovereignty Act, she will strike a blow against the federal government’s proposed Clean Electric Regulations (CER). On…
Naming Rights: What Goes Around Comes Around
So now Ken Sim’s ABC wants to sell naming rights to public buildings in Vancouver. Like his NPA predecessors, he wants to make a buck selling corporate advertising on public…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Blissed cats.
The CCCE Summit Day 2 – Visit or Revisit the Highlights!
November 7th was Day 2 of the Canadian Caregiving Summit and it was just as exciting as Day 1! The theme of Day 2 was "Defining the need for a…
The CCCE Summit Day 2 – Visit or Revisit the Highlights!
November 7th was Day 2 of the Canadian Caregiving Summit and it was just as exciting as Day 1! The theme of Day 2 was "Defining the need for a…
The CCCE Summit Day 2 – Visit or Revisit the Highlights!
November 7th was Day 2 of the Canadian Caregiving Summit and it was just as exciting as Day 1! The theme of Day 2 was “Defining the need for a…
My latest: the Trudeau end times
Annihilation. Bloodbath. Destruction. Massacre. Decimation. Wipeout. Use whatever synonym you like, and it’ll apply. The Liberal Party of Canada – at one time, the most-successful political machine in Western democracy…
Argentina is not for sale: Unions respond to privatization
On November 19, 2023 Javier Milei defeated Economy Minister Sergio Massa by a wide margin, winning all but three of Argentina’s 24 provinces. Photo courtesy Vox España/Flickr. Argentines weary of…
Guernica, now and then
“Guernica” is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most powerful anti-war painting…
The Politics Of School Boards
Having worked as a teacher for 30 years, I am well-aware of the politics that pervades and blights education. The higher one goes up the ladder, the more one is…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the day: Did you sign a non-competition agreement?
If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your employer or soliciting its customers after you leave, those restrictions may not be enforceable. NOn-competition agreements are generally unenforceable against…
Merkelism is collapsing in Europe. What will succeed it?
Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won 37 seats in the Netherlands’ 150-seat legislature, the largest single bloc, after an historic election win last week. Photo from Flickr. The victory of…
Living On A Different Planet
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes much deeper than that. It’s as…
Living On A Different Planet
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes much deeper than that. It’s as…
Living On A Different Planet
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes much deeper than that. It’s as…
Fracking Hell!
Sunday was the busiest day ever for air travel in the U.S. Almost 3 million people were screened at airports across the country. Meanwhile, Gianluca Grimalda lost his job doing…
Not an Organized Party.
We used to joke that we are not members of an organized political party. We are liberals. And it was never more obvious than when the wife and I went…
#Kudatah? Not quite – even Danielle Smith admits this Sovereignty Act stuff is mostly performative fluff
“Alberta’s government will not put Albertans and their businesses at risk of freezing in the dark at -30 C due to the federal government’s proposed unaffordable, unreliable and unconstitutional Clean…
Empty promises and unmet pledges
The 28th United Nations Climate Change conference begins this week in a middle east petrostate. UAE hired a team of lobbyists to “inoculate” COP28 and Sultan al-Jaber from “any potential…
The most dangerous expansion of fossil fuel in the world
In November 2023, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkeley, along with more than 60 congressional colleagues, asked the U.S. Department of Energy to reconsider liquified natural gas (LNG) policies because those…