How Solar Power Is Helping Redefine This Alberta First Nation
In 2015, seven young people died in Beaver Lake Cree Nation — a tiny community in northeast Alberta with an on-reserve population of only 345 people. “We started to lose…
January 2018
The CIA’s 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
Screenshot from CIA promotional video Joel Whitney’s new book, Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers, explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold…
Iran and the Left: a Dissenting View
Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Starting on Thursday, December 28, spontaneous demonstrations broke out in different towns and cities across Iran. The protests broke out over economic issues such as high…
The Rule of Law in An Age of Fear
“He who puts security before liberty deserves neither.” –Dennis Edney Q.C. quoting Benjamin Franklin Last week Dennis Edney Q.C. delivered the 2018 Milvain Lecture at the University of Calgary. His…
The Long Wait – A Bandaid for the Emergency Room Crisis
This is just an off-the-cuff comment, but enduring a long wait in a crowded, infection-ridden emergency room just once should be enough to spur people into action – or at…
Hedges Hears America’s Death Rattle
We’re witnessing many things unfold this century that would have been unimagineable except to a small few just decades ago. Climate change, the contamination of our atmosphere, the incremental destruction…
Is He Dumb, Stupid or Is It Cultivated Ignorance? Robert Reich Thinks It’s All That – and More.
Robert Reich doesn’t dispute that the 45th president of the United States is both stupid and ignorant. He’s not as accomplished as he pretends. In fact, he would have done…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of January 8, 2018
140Law: Here are your top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of January 8, 2018. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 8, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 8, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Law Society name change Ellen Roseman: What you need to know about…
You Get What You Pay For
That fundamental truth is grasped by two small-scale entrepreneurs, much to the shame of much larger entities like Tim Hortons which, as widely reported, are taking out their outrage and…
THE MAKING OF A CAREGIVER
In this recipe, the essence of the caregiver is kept aside, similar to the starter in sour dough bread. This ‘starter’ will be needed to make and re-make the caregiver…
Getting Mugged By The Future
When the Conservatives went shopping for a new leader, they chose the wrong guy. Alan Freeman writes: With each passing day, it’s becoming clearer that Canada’s Official Opposition is led…
Leadership 2018 Links
The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as the January 19 membership deadline approaches. – CBC and Colton Praill each reported on this weekend’s debate in Moose Jaw, with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bloomberg View discusses how the U.S. is becoming a major tax haven. And the Economist reminds us of the role Canada’s pitiful corporate…
Six more problems with Public Private Partnerships (P3s)
The Auditor General (AG) has again identified issues in her annual report which reflect problems with Ontario health care capacity and privatization. First, here are six key problems with the…
Column: l’affaire Boyle
Not so long ago, I was in Vancouver at the same time as Jean Chretien. He was there for his law firm, I was there for mine. We decided to…
The Day Trump’s Lizard Boy Was Destroyed By Jake Tapper
In a White House full of freaks and flunkies Stephen Miller stands out as the freakiest of them all, after Great Orange Leader himself.The Trump "policy adviser" has been called…
Forget Beyak, dump Canada’s Senate.
Why just dump Senator Lynn Beyak? You do not have to like what she says or posts on the Internet? We have all heard it before. Bigotry is hardly new.…
Tim Hortons brew-haha shows how the fast-food industry doesn’t get PR, Economics 101, or what Canadians think
PHOTOS: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in a very old picture that has the dual advantages of showing her wearing a smile appropriate to the occasion being discussed and of having…
Oxygen Depletion in the Oceans
This can’t be good: “The oxygen content of the open ocean and coastal waters has been declining for at least the past half-century, largely because of human activities that have…