Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dyani Lewis writes that we know enough to ensure clean indoor air if we care enough to work on limiting the spread of…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dyani Lewis writes that we know enough to ensure clean indoor air if we care enough to work on limiting the spread of…
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Wells highlights the futility in telling people to stay home when they lack a home to stay in. And Robyn Urback discusses…
Why did Justin Trudeau lose a million votes in the 2019 election? Why did he lose his majority? Why did he lose his standing in the world, and with Canadians?…
Miscellaneous material to start your year. – Armine Yalnizyan writes about the ongoing struggle for workers’ rights a century after the Winnipeg General Strike: Most workers have no channels for…
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the failure of neoliberalism to provide gains for any but the wealthiest few has led to risks to the…
And, Trudeau lies and pins the blame on bureaucrats. From the Globe: Former justice minister and attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould met with RCMP investigators this week to discuss political interference in…
In it for you. It’s the New Democrats – now a sad shadow of their former selves – who, ironically, came up with the best slogan for the 2019 federal…
Joseph Nye Welch: remember that name. He was an American lawyer, and chief counsel to the US Army. He died long ago. But even from the grave, even after so…
. By Michael Harris | TheTyee.ca Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist and documentary maker. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the…
In my last post I looked at how Justin Trudeau's poll numbers had finally recovered from the so-called fake scandal.And I expressed the fond hope that I would never have…
Finally. After seizing Gerald Butts’ government-issue laptop and cell phone – after all of the senior PMO staff lawyered up – one would’ve thought the criminal probe was already underway.…
Kick me. Here’s a little-known fact: The “kick me” sign — which is usually affixed to some hapless soul’s back or behind, for laughs — was apparently devised by merry-making…
Vote now, vote often! Gerald Butts return means the return of these #LPC problems: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 20, 2019
It’s good, but: • it tries to cover too many subjects in too few seconds • it’s pretty busy, visually I think there’s enough stuff here for three different spots:…
There is enough evidence against SNC-Lavalin for the engineering corporation to be tried on fraud and bribery charges, a Quebec court judge has ruled. SNC-Lavalin spent months lobbying the federal…
In one of my books, The War Room, I have a chapter called the Scandal Handle Manual. Here’s a bit of it: None of us Chrétienites hated Martin or Gomery,…