Originally published by the Georgia Straight COMMENTARY Wendy Holm: Connecting the dots—SNC Lavalin, the Site C Dam, and continental water-sharing by Wendy Holm Back in the day, as school kids,…
Her testimony was riveting, her aura of integrity palpable. One could only come away from the testimony of Jody Wilson-Raybould into the SNC-Lavalin scandal drawing at least two conclusions: politics…
Jagmeet Singh will soon take his place as leader in the House of Commons. This is where the puck hits the sidewalk. With Trudeau on the ropes over the…
Angus Reid Group has a sounding of public opinion to share, this morning – and for the #LavScam Liberals, it’s bad. A visual representation of the horserace numbers: I spoke…
THEN: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Donald Trump told James Comey, “He is a good guy. I hope you…
I have realized there is a lower point than disillusionment with mainstream Canadian media. I call it my bullshit saturation point. Canada’s news media has decided that it wants to…
…and the Clerk of the Privy Council applying raw muscle, too. I’m sure it’s all nothing. Here. Oh, and all the rich white people from Toronto didn’t like how the…
Letter-writers in today’s Star ask questions that demand to be answered. The first makes a point that occurred to me early on when SNC-Lavalin averred that bribery and fraud charges…
A must-read Tom Brodbeck column here. Key bits: “The most mind-boggling thing Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick said Thursday didn’t occur during his testimony at the House of Commons justice…
I would like to use this post to comment on one of the questions swirling around the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould, one that came up yet again on last night’s…
…and, as she almost certainly expected, they’re leaking it. They’re waiving the privilege all on their own. And thereby helping her to get her story out. Man, she is smart.…
Dear Puglaas: That’s the name you use on Twitter, and the name you got when you were born: Puglaas. In the Kwak’wala language, it means “woman born to noble people.”…
The first cut, they say, is the deepest. And now, for something completely different: Recommend this Post
Despite our love for politics as a blood sport, there is a human side and human cost to politics. I have seen both, and have experienced both for the better…
In early 2014, BC Hydro awarded SNC-Lavalin a contract to design, build, finance and maintain the John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Amid all the hoo-ha emanating from the nation’s capital over the partial holiday weekend, the bit that didn’t seem to fit was the dispiriting news – for many Albertans, anyway…
For those who claim the SNC-Lavalin affair is much ado abut nothing, this is certainly an interesting development: OTTAWA—Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary and long-time friend, has resigned amid…
