It doesn’t seem like that long ago United Conservative Party cabinet ministers, MLAs and political aides were getting in to all kinds of hot water for their holiday travel. Who…
A few days ago, fifty-year-old Brian Thompson was gunned down on a street in midtown Manhattan. Thompson was not an unimportant man. He was a senior executive of United Health…
My girlfriend Paula Christison had been over, and we’d been studying, then watching something on the little black and white TV we had. My Carleton roommate, Lee G. Hill, was…
First snow much later than usual. But lovely, all the same even though people seem to be doing a lot of slipping and sliding. Takes a couple of days of…
Photo by Alastair Humphreys/Flickr Toward the end of October, the fervently pro-Israel B’nai Brith Canada issued a “Seven-Point Plan to Combat Antisemitism” claiming that anti-Jewish sentiment h...
The Syrian rebels are winning.The Washington Post provides this timeline article: The shocking speed of Syria’s rebel advance against Assad: A visual timeline Videos, photos and maps show how Syrian…
American democracy (such as it is) suffered a blow last month with the election of clownish demagogue Donald Trump. But that is no reason to wallow in despair. A country’s…
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of my unexpected ascension to the lofty heights of provincial power as outlined here a couple of weeks back, my son Blake thought…
On Google, the listing for the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, now says: “Temporarily closed.” But that’s not quite true, is it? It’s closed for good. At 4:10 a.m.…
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The Malian government under Colonel Assimi Goïta, pictured here, is demanding Resolute Mining and Barrick Gold pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and fines. In the past few…
Now that the fall session of the Alberta Legislature is over and the United Conservative Party is celebrating its success pushing through major parts of its radical agenda, a number…
More and more of the Canadian economy is dominated by a handful of huge companies that control what we buy, how we work, and which other businesses can or can’t…
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A candidate for the People’s Party of Canada asked if I would join his podcast for a discussion of government functions. Having no interest in promoting or assisting that party,…
Discussion and debate about health care is a staple in Canadian politics and the culture at large. The adjective most often applied to the system is used so frequently, it…
Once again, Trump is shooting himself in the foot. I think that he and his minions thought it would be terribly ballsey to make a whole bunch of controversial nominations…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: 'Insulting': Intimate partner violence study cut short as Ontario eyes early election #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://t.co/x07TzGYUsuhttps - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Assorted content to end your week.- Oliver Milman examines how insurance rates in the U.S. are pricing in climate risks - and pushing insurance out of reach for people facing…
