If it is truly an axiom of practical politics that you can you can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied, we now have confirmation Danielle Smith’s government is bent on privatizing health care in Alberta. Home of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, publisher of Premier
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Woke is not a slur
President Biden vetoed a measure that would have blocked fiduciary retirement fund managers from considering climate change, corporate governance and other factors when making pension investments…
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Here’s something you don’t see every day
Vote result: motion to concur in the 25th report of the #PROC committee was adopted. #cdnpoli Yeas: 172 Nays: 149 — In the Chamber (@HoCChamber) March 23, 2023
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dave Hansen et al. discuss the attempt in progress by publishers to attack the Internet Archive in order to restrict access to materials. And Walled Culture examines the problem of trying to preserve any “public domain” at all when the profit motive
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 23, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada is raising the federal minimum wage to $16.65 next month. Here’s what that means for Ontario #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3TCyTLO – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: when in a hole
When in a hole, stop digging. That’s advice my former boss Jean Chretien used to give us. In life, as in politics, it’s good advice. The denizens of Parliament Hill — which is essentially 22 square acres surrounded by reality — often forget that. They often forget, or don’t care,
Continue readingExcited Delirium: I Demand an Inquiry on THIS
Given the range of influence being bought by international oil companies, I demand an inquiry into how they are actively working to destabilize the Canadian democratic process. The post I Demand an Inquiry on THIS first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale of the assets of the estate to address the debt, but that’s it. There are some exceptions- like if a
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Profiting From Experience
Joe Biden will arrive in Ottawa this afternoon. He and Justin Trudeau will have a lot to talk about during his short visit. Linda McQuaig hopes that Biden will offer Justin some good advice on how to tax the wealthy: Joe Biden is proposing a number of measures, including an
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Limits in Society
Having established norms and boundaries in society is a good thing. Is the balance between personal freedom and what is good for society perfect? Of course not. But the current system which is always under small scale revision, is a reasonable way forward. The basis of this incremental move toward
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : A Palace to Profit.
Driving to an appointment with my family doctor the other day, I noticed a new and very fancy building nearing completion down the road from the doctor’s office. The sign was already on the building and it is one of the private clinics that Ontario premier Doug Ford has been
Continue readingAlberta Politics: China’s spending money to undermine Canadian democracy? If they’ll just leave us alone, we’ll take care of it ourselves!
If the People’s Republic of China is trying as hard as the Conservative Party of Canada insists it is to undermine Canadian democracy, it’s hard to understand why they’re bothering. Retired Canadian national security advisor Wesley Wark (Photo: Centre for International Governance Innovation). After all, if they’ll just leave us
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: A warrant for the world’s “most brazen mobster”
If there has been a knock on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it’s that it has focussed excessively on developing countries. Of the over 50 individuals the court has indicted, the majority are from Africa. The court has now issued a warrant for a European and they couldn’t have made
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The John Snow Project calls out the dangers of labeling COVID-19 infection as an immune-boosting mechanism, rather than an unequivocal harm to individual health. Jake Miller discusses new research on the groups at particular risk of long COVID. And Remember Rebuild SK has
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 22, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Via Rail apologizes after Muslim man told not to pray at Ottawa train station #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/40iTRSa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: To renew working class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized
CUPE school support workers on strike in Nova Scotia. Photo courtesy the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Since its initial publication in 1988, From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Don Swartz, and the late, Leo Panitch has offered leftists an exhaustive history
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally as the legal representative of your Estate in order to deal with certain property that you own, potentially like a
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Getting It Wrong
Things are not going well for Canada’s oil advocates. Max Fawcett writes: Timing, as they say, is everything. And the timing right now for opponents of the federal government’s much-maligned Impact Assessment Act couldn’t be much worse. Arguments around the constitutionality of the act, which has been widely branded as
Continue readingThings Are Good: Puffinling Patrol Save Baby Puffins
In Iceland puffins get help from humans who volunteer on the Puffling Patrol to ensure that the little birds can thrive. When baby puffins, known as pufflings, hatch they usually head to the sea from their nests on shore, but when bright lights are nearby they’ll go towards the light.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Save Your Child, Be The Better Parent – Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans
My daughter was always a good kid. Thoughtful, quiet, and artistic, she attended a public Montessori school. She had a close group of girlfriends, and an outspoken disdain for boys, who she found to be annoying and gross. Her favorite game was stuffed animals, all of whom were female, all
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