Water as a Human Right
In a recent article in my local paper, Peter Shawn Taylor says that anyone who wants to stop Nestle from draining aquifers doesn’t understand economics and is hostile to capitalism.…
2016
Ontario: This is what you get when Toronto doesn’t pay property tax!
Toronto’s plan to introduce road tolls is a great idea, but won’t address the real issue. Which is? Toronto isn’t charging enough property tax.
Getting It Right: Formal Requirements for Your Last Will and Testament
BY PAUL B. ADAM, ASSOCIATE LAWYER Remember the old expression, “close enough” only works with horseshoes and hand grenades?Keep this in mind when drafting your Last Will and Testament. The…
Review: Mirrors
Earlier this year, I came to the rather startling realization that relatively little of the what I read bears much resemblance to what I want to be writing. I want…
America’s Coming Civil War
Weeks ago, as I was approaching the 14th anniversary of Politics, Re-Spun, I launched WePivot.net. My goal was to move out of what started as a George.W.Caesar anti-imperial website, that…
Review: Mirrors
Earlier this year, I came to the rather startling realization that relatively little of the what I read bears much resemblance to what I want to be writing. I want…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday November 24, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Postmedia: the Guild of Vampires always feed themselves first
If this doesn’t make every journalist in Canada puke, I don’t know what will: Amid another year of dramatic restructuring at Postmedia Network Canada Corp., the company’s five most senior…
Another One
Crawford Killian voices the frustration that many of us who spent our lives in the classroom feel in the wake of the American election: As a lifelong teacher, this really…
Stop The Traffik App
Human trafficking is a real problem throughout the globe and sadly it isn’t showing signs of slowing down. An organization, Stop the Traffik, is focused on ending human trafficking and…
Donald Trump’s Monstrous Thanksgiving
WhoWhatWhyDonald Trump is spending the Thanksgiving holiday at his Mar-a-Lago castle, no doubt surrounded by his court of bigots and other deplorables.And he's urging his people to unite and support…
Generosity
As heard on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning today Wood Haven Country Lodge in the Kawarthas opens its heart next weekend to women and children from area shelters, offering them a…
If they put a toll on political bullshit, they’d make way more money
So, this: Toronto Mayor John Tory is set to endorse a controversial introduction of road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway to raise $300 million a year…
It was not Trump’s win; It was Clinton’s loss.
We were all guilty. Our prejudice said Trump cannot win. We just did not look hard at Hillary. She thought she was winning. She acted like she was winning. She…
Corruption and conflict of interest
Ever get that uneasy sense of deja vu? That some ugly, undemocratic event you’re watching at council, some autocratic, conniving, secret and self-serving act is something you’ve experienced in the…
Rick Mercer on Kellie Leitch’s Race Baiting Campaign
With every passing day Kellie Leitch's absurd attempt to be Canada's Donald Trump is looking more desperate and pathetic.She's been getting a lot of free publicity, and doing her best…
The future will be something #nlpoli
The association representing the province’s offshore supply and service businesses paid a consultant from London to look at the potential for development of the oil located in very deep water…
Bygone bleats: Ray Speaker speaks again, while your blogger still awaits his letter
PHOTOS: Past and present at the Alberta Legislature. Progressive Conservative campaign vehicles may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Former MLAs Ray Speaker, a Social Crediter and Progressive Conservative, Tory…
Fin de cavale d’un punk qui voulait «vivre à fond» (repost)
Gilles a l’air déboussolé. Après vingt-huit ans de cavale, ce grand échalas vient de débarquer avec son sac à dos dans un café toulousain où il a rendez-vous avec son…
Donald uber Alles: now in Toronto
In our neighbourhood, too. Anti-Semitic graffiti 'stopped me in my tracks,' Toronto resident says https://t.co/6aLqMjVCM6 pic.twitter.com/7A8zUQvij1 — CBC News (@CBCNews) November 24, 2016