The final days are closer, now
It’s happening. It’s happening. WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he…
April 2018
We’re robbed and federal competition agency is silent
Removing the impact of gas tax and GST, our American neighbours pay as much as 38¢ a litre less. That amounts to $23 for a 60 litre fill-up. Based on…
Think Of It As a Glacier the Size Of Britain.
Glaciers are typically an ice sheet sitting atop some hard surface, usually rock. With climate change they’ve been retreating, melting, turning that ice into runoff water that finds its way…
A Little Humour Too Much For The White House Press
The WHCD has always included a roast, so long as I can remember back to the W Bush years. Colbert’s roast of Bush is among my most favourite moments in…
The Vancouver That Might Have Been. A Tribute to the Legend, Harry Rankin.
Most Vancouverites of a certain vintage remember 1986 as the year that begat the ruin of their once magnificent city. It was the year of Expo 86, the World’s Fair…
Great. Remind Justin of How He Is So Unlike His Father.
Oh, oh, oh, feel the burn. The Tyee has published a letter Jeanne Mikita received from prime minister Trudeau’s office written 19 February, 1970. She thought so much of it…
There’s More Than a Little Trump in Trudeau
He must know he’s seen as a bit of a shitbird out here which would explain why Justin Trudeau made sure to get his ass to Vancouver to announce that…
The Many Lies of the Con Artist Andrew Scheer
As you may know, I consider Andrew Scheer to be a serial liar, a man who lies almost as much as Donald Trump does.A liar who should have a flashing…
May Day: Workers’ Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
Photo by Soman For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer…
What’s Interesting
We have a new organization and a new manager, and one of the questions we as staff are being asked is “what’s interesting?” with responses to be at least one…
Professional Sport as Sacrifice
Illustration by Adrian Brandon The following is an excerpt from Nathan Kalman-Lamb’s Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport, set to be released May 1, 2018 by Fernwood…
A Light Dusting of Snow
Grand Canyon South Rim
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 30, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 30, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Kady O’Malley writes that after years of delays on their promise to reassess Bill C-51, civil rights are just one more area where…
Blood On Our Hands
As Canadians, we like to walk around feeling good about ourselves, convinced both of our good intentions and our innate rectitude. Ours is a generally peaceful society, the rule of…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 30, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 30, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Easements: more than meets the eye Former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown…
Before Its Time? Manifest Destiny, a Short Story
The story below appeared in my short story collection, Finding the Enemy, published in 1999 by Oberon Press. Given the news today of a caravan of refugees at the US/Mexico…
The Wealth Cult
Dan Leger writes that, for quite awhile, we have been worshipping at the Altar of Wealth. That worship has been misplaced: I do admire wealthy people who get there from…
EU Bans Bee Bashing Pesticides
Neonicotinoids kill bees, specifically their hives, and the EU just expanded their ban on neonicotinoids to help protect the world’s dying bee populations. Back in 2013 the EU banned pesticides…
Dark days descending on Ontario.
It is frightening. We have been studying the mood of voters across Ontario and we do not like what we are seeing and hearing. We are not even into the…