A BC family’s 15-year struggle for justice
Despite the Moore case, the parent was forced to move their their son to a private school offering specialized instruction and supervision. The family is financially crippled by the $2,400…
July 2018
The poll puts Jason Kenney’s UCP in slam-dunk range over NDP; the pollster has a bit of a history
Yesterday, United Conservative Party MLAs were Tweeting around a graphic from a new poll that showed their party with a wide lead over the New Democratic Party in all regions…
On Manne’s "Down Girl"
With thorough argumentation and heavily footnoted facts brought to the table, Down Girl, by Kate Manne delineates misogyny from sexism and hopes “to offer a useful toolkit for asking, answering,…
Trump at War Again on Working Class America – His Base.
This guy knows he’s got the Gullibillies in the bag – or as Jacques Parizeau would say, the lobster pot. After just adding a trillion and a half dollar deficit…
CBC Interview on Better Local Government Act
Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed on CBC News by Dwight Drummond on Bill 5, Better Local Government Act, 2018.
Travis Patron of the Canadian (White) Nationalist Party Gets No Love In Winnipeg
ARC has written very little about Travis Patron, the white nationalist founder of the "so fringe other fringe political parties consider them fringe" Canadian Nationalist Party. Because he is so…
No free lunch
The proliferation of plug-in stations breeds a mindset that electric vehicles are completely “green” …and they aren’t using “horsepower”. Though the overall impact of all electric vehicles is calculated to…
Handguns, Really? Why?
I own firearms, three of them. They’re rifles – a lever action, a bolt action and a semi-automatic .22 for ‘plinking’. Every now and then I take one or more…
When the World Unravels
We live in a global economy, a tightly woven matrix of production and consumption. A Dell computer, for example, may be an assembly of parts each produced in one of…
Is This A Reminder That Enforcement Sees Cycling As Second Class?
Some questions come up about the treatment of a cyclist this past weekend by the OPP. Who’s in the right?
Symphony of Fire
Vancouver’s annual fireworks festival started Saturday night. It was stunning as usual.
The Day Michelle Rempel Was Made To Look Like An Idiot. Again.
A few days ago I wrote a post accusing Michelle Rempel of whipping up hatred against asylum seekers for crass political purposes.And of being totally out of control.So I'm glad…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of July 30, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 30, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Robert Reich examines how a concerted attack on organized labour has pushed the vast majority of American workers into living paycheque-to-paycheque (or worse)…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 30, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 30, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge delays Paul Manafort’s trial until July 31 US lawsuit settlement will…
Populism Doesn’t Come Cheap
These days, populists run against government. They claim it’s a luxury we can’t afford. But, Alan Freeman writes, it’s populism itself that’s expensive. Need proof? Consider what is happening in…
Column: the bloody play without end
After the shock wears off – after it’s replaced by anger and fear and then sorrow – we continuously end up in the same intellectual cul-de-sac: what can we do?…
Ford-style mathematics and The Kingfish.
Even health minister Christine Elliott is going along with the mathematics used by the new Ontario premier. Once you accept that two and two add up to zero, you are…
TURNS OUT, ALZHEIMER’S COULD AFFECT VISION TOO
When most people think of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia, memory loss and forgetfulness tend to top the list. Secondary symptoms such as vision-related problems are not as…