Elbows up for Cuba, Canada!
The United States has ramped up its decades-long campaign to smash its tiny Caribbean neighbour. While the country has been plagued with shortages of essential goods since the end of…
Correlation Fallacy and the Tumbler Ridge Tragedy
Yesterday, a person in Tumbler Ridge, BC went into the high school and shot a large number of people, killing 6 at the school, and injuring dozens more. This is…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Zoe Williams writes that Donald Trump is just the most egregious and unrestrained example of the vice-signalling which has become standard operating procedure among…
The Moreness of Everything
The title of this post comes from a subhead in Thomas De Zengotita’s book, Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005) in which the author…
Today’s News: Carney deserves a medal for dealing with Trump, plus Tuesday Olympic catchup, and our tragedy at Tumbler Ridge
I think our Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves his own medal - gold, of course - for having to deal so often with Trump and his fantasies. Prime Minister Carney…
It’s All a Charade
File this under, "Things we already know or ought to know." The BMJ just published a feature called, "Why Covid-19 is 'A Vascular Disease Masquerading as a Respiratory One.'" The…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Multidirectional cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler writes that the events of Super Bowl weekend show how Donald Trump - even with the support of most of the…
Building Community
Responding to Alan Levine: On “Building” Community I Got BubkisI totally get what you're feeling. I've been online since the 1980s 'building community' the whole time. What do I have…
Plague Update: POStmedia Aims To Kill
The Gazette published an absolute turd of an article. Here are some of the lowlights: “Outside of a health-care institution, people aren’t really thinking about transmission,” he said. “In a…
Where Is Canada’s Voice?
I am old enough to have seen much, and I am certainly a realist when it comes to politics. As Bismarck said, it is "the art of the possible." That…
Today’s News: Olympic Catch-up, Bad Bunny and the grasses, Trump take bridge, and the Epstein Tsunami
Olympic Catch-up Megan Oldham bronze! View on Threads The family and friends reactions one of my favourite parts of the Olympics. They’ve been on this journey too. And they couldn’t…
Apparently the UCP is OK with 18 of its MLAs being publicly identified as separatists
It would appear that the United Conservative Party Caucus is OK with having 18 of its members, including eight cabinet ministers, publicly identified as supporters of Alberta independence from Canada,…
Plague Update: Surviving or Thriving?
I really don’t know how people do it. How does the average person expect to survive the next decade? The last 6 years have gone terribly, and there is no…
A Tonic For The Times
A friend sent me this video. If you watch it in its entirety, I think you will find it a stirring reminder of some of the things that make Canada…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of February 9, 2026
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of February 9, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 9, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge rules against U.S. plan to strip 350,000 Haitians of legal status, notes…
A tale of two newspapers
Can you murder a newspaper? The Atlantic magazine thinks so. At least they accuse billionaire... The post A tale of two newspapers first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Today’s tonic: Jon Ossoff: “The President posting about the Obamas like a Klansman” | Full Speech
I’ve been scouring U.S. Democratic politics since November 2024 desperately looking for hope. Hope in the human form of some decent, talented, progressive Democrat who can challenge the MAGA hellhole…