The Alberta NDP are pushing forward with their plans to reform Alberta’s outdated election finance laws. Labour Minister Christina Gray, who also serves as Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal, introduced…
SOURCE: CBC News – No Plans to End Private MRIs, Says Sask. Health Minister to Federal Concerns While there’s some interesting things happening with the GTH as of this morning…
SOURCE: CBC News – No Plans to End Private MRIs, Says Sask. Health Minister to Federal Concerns While there’s some interesting things happening with the GTH as of this morning…
The man who injured 11 people at Ohio State was a refugee from Somalia. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, rammed his car into a group of pedestrians at the college…
We don’t know what it means when, for the second consecutive year, the Arctic is experiencing a dark winter heatwave. In the pitch black, what should be the coldest time…
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that one of the first things America’s political left would do during the 2016 election post-mortem is to attack minority groups like trans* people,…
Today’s irvinig press has a striking example of propaganda presented as news. ( That’s actually quite common in our news services.) This one is a story about Cuban exiles in…
If you feel exhausted by Canada’s fevered debates about oil pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals, renewable energy projects and mines, there just might be relief in sight. Right now, the…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Miles Corak asks how we should see the growing concentration of income at the top of the spectrum, and concludes that we should…
I see reports and videos daily about the actions taken by the unhinged right-wing, the bigoted and the morally diseased. Most I choose not to include on my blog, but…
Man, what the fuck is going on in Alberta? In an email to supporters sent late Sunday with the bland subject line, “A Wildrose Update,” Opposition Leader Brian Jean drops…
Canada’s federal Minister of Health has just slapped Saskatchewan’s hands for offering pay-to-use MRIs, prompting the Saskatchewan Minister of Health to thumb his nose at the Feds, in an act…
…that’s the working title of my next book. It’s the sequel to Web of Hate. And my sense is that I’m going to have no shortage of source material. Steve…
Here are our top 10 legal headlines from last week. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov 28, 2016 at 8:17am PST – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
No, not Rome. Hedges thinks they lead to a post-democratic America. We await the crisis. It could be economic. It could be a terrorist attack within the United States. It…
It would seem that Star reader Douglas Porter of Peterborough sees with unusual clarity what so many prefer to ignore: It seems that many things in history do a repeat…
Here are this week’s leading legal news stories from Wise Law on Twitter. Reasonable Doubt: legal aid in Ontario is far from perfect Here are our top 7 tips for…
From the French right’s selection of Fillon to the Italian referendum and Austrian election, Europe’s centre is oblivious to its own existential crisis. They might want to dust off their…
With federal by-elections expected to be called in the next few months in the ridings of Calgary-Heritage and Calgary-Midnapore, candidates are stepping up to seek party nominations. In Calgary-Heritage, where…
James Burke is known for his series on BBC called Connections, which was all about how seemingly random inventions (or concepts) are actually connected in interesting ways. He has spent…
