Rating the Prime Ministers
Just a quick post to link to this Maclean's article by Stephen Azzi and Norman Hillmer in which they discuss the results of a poll rating Canada's Prime Ministers, past…
Harper Hypocritical Over Use Of $11,000 Hour Jet For Personal Reasons
“As they pad their expense account and look out the windows of their $11,000 per hour Challenger jet flights, they think that everything is going pretty well. They just don’t…
Cultural Amuse-Bouche: The Mona Lisa Curse
The world of modern art is inaccessible to many of us. In the documentary The Mona Lisa Curse (2008), Robert Hughes explains why that's the case. He traces it all…
Liberal Party Says "Let Your Voice be Heard"
So let's do the math shall we. 3000 delegates to a virtual "special meeting". Length of the call to be 90 minutes to 2 hours. President rambles on for 20…
You may not have noticed, but…
...the first vote on budgetary policy in Canada's new Parliament took place on Wednesday, with the parties taking their positions on the Libs' budget subamendment. And it may make for…
Post Carbon Institute Debunks False Hope Of Gas As ‘Bridge Fuel’
PCI Gas Report.png Touted by industry as a “clean energy” panacea, unconventional gas is widely heralded as deliverance from air pollution to global warming to foreign energy dependen...
Hudak’s Chain-Gang Proposal: Camp Run Amok Redux?
"There are ways to manage the risks; there are ways to diminish the risk, but there's no way to eliminate risk. Will some inmates escape? Will some inmates walk away?…
Phew. Made it. Only 180 more km to go
Once I got out of town I was fine. I got about 6km lost trying to follow the prescribed route out of town. I was so nervous I skipped over…
Separated at birth: Rosebud edition
The One (above) and The Other (below). But which one was fictional? - srbp -
On shocking transformations
I suspect it'll be quite some time before we see an end to stories about how the NDP's Quebec breakthrough means that it'll have to radically change direction. But let's…
The power of Brigette DePape
I don't think I have seen a single soul who has been terrorized Canada's right wing as much as this 21-year-old woman. Beginning with Evan Solomon's horribly manipulative interview to…
Wise Law Blog Goes Mobile
Thanks to an upgrade from Google's Blogger platform, a mobile version of Wise Law Blog is now available on your handheld. The mobile version contains our current blogposts only, rather…
News Anchor Holly Pietrzak: Weiner effect
This anchor must have been following the Anthony Weiner story too much. Watch as she drops the F-bomb. Source: The Huffington Post.
Air Canada Bargaining and the Fight for Middle Class Jobs
CAW members at Air Canada are coming down to the wire in their bargaining with the company, with a strike deadline set for this Monday at midnight. It’s really the…
Barely news today, forgotten tomorrow: live-blogging the policy plenary
1:30 PM: And we're back, or we will be in 5 minutes, the voice from on high just informed the hall. It's time for the policy plenary, and apparently we…
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Anyone remember Fukushima?...
Great line of the day
Steve V writes about Harper's delusional foreign policy hubris:Irrelevant on climate change, non existent at the United Nations, playing NO role in key diplomatic initiatives, retreating from traditional development and…
How did the Conservatives win a majority?
Sure, it was a compliant media monopoly blanketing the news with Con-friendly articles. Yes, it was an apathetic public who didn't vote. OK, Iggy was less than a stellar leader…
Looking Back At The Roots Of The Labour Movement In Canada For Inspiration
Whenever my energy flags and the struggle to build a better society seems lost, I like to go back in time and revisit the birth of the labour movement in…
Assault and its consequences
Firoz (Phil) Khan was a newspaper deliveryman in Vancouver, going about his business one evening in January, 2009, when he was set upon by three drunken off-duty cops. A city…