Firing a Shot Across the Blowhard’s Bow
EU president, Jean Claude Junker, delivered a one-liner to Donald Trump in advance of this week’s NATO summit. “Dear America, appreciate your allies. After all, you don’t have that many.”…
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Episode 15: Politicians pretending to be Cowboys. It’s Stampede Week in Calgary!
It is Calgary Stampede season, which means politicians from across Canada are flocking to Alberta’s largest city to show off their recently purchased plaid shirts and cowboy hats. In this…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday July 10, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that an Employee is obligated to give…
The Signs Are All Around Us
How’s that climate-change denial thing working for you these days? It’s so hot in Australia that drivers’ tires are covered in melted tar from the roads pic.twitter.com/eH6enH3jXr — EveryBody vs…
Is Trump right on NATO?
Donald Trump has said – and this week, in Brussels he will say yet again – that Canada and other nations don’t pay our way in NATO. He will say…
The Cost Of Rising Seas
For those who don’t live on a seacoast, rising oceans mean little — unless you put the issue in dollars and cents terms. Tim Radford, who was the science editor…
Trudeau’s petard simmers for the summer.
Tough as he might be on boys who misbehave, Justin Trudeau has the summer to figure out how to handle the insidious questioning in parliament of his own behaviour. It…
Ronny Cameron and Steven Myatt are Sad
Sometimes being a fringe far-right social media personality isn't all that it is cracked up to be. For example, self-proclaimed white nationalist (who still insists he isn't a racist because…
Remember when those confident British voters chose ‘hope over fear’ with Brexit? What Would Jason Tweet now?
While much of the world looked on in dismay as the results of the Brexit votes rolled in two years ago last month, Jason Kenney Tweeted his congratulations to the…
Too timid to act?
BC NDP’s unwillingness to appoint a Commission of Inquiry to investigate corruption in public administration is one more sign of timidity, a thing becoming the Horgan Government’s hallmark. We’ve seen…
Ontario Election 2018: Right-Wing Populism Prevails Over Moderate Social Democracy
Photo by Bruce Reeve In the June 7 provincial election, Ontario politics took a sharp turn to the right as the Progressive Conservatives (PCs), under the leadership of the populist…
The legacy of ‘Oka’ and the future of Indigenous resistance
Photo by Ellen Gabriel In the summer of 1990, Ellen Gabriel (Katsi’tsakwas) was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during…
The Hypocrite-in-Chief
“I strongly deny the groping allegation that I already admitted to and apologized for.” That is Justin Trudeau’s defence in the ongoing groping scandal, basically. And it is so truly…
More costs pile onto the SVJI
It seems Saunderson’s Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (SVJI) is eating up taxpayer money rapidly, with a little help from other town departments. It was originally estimated to cost taxpayers between $2…
American Thuggery
By almost any metric, the United States is a rogue nation. The depth of its depraved thuggery was recently made evident to the world: A resolution to encourage breastfeeding was…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 9, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 9, 2018. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul 9, 2018 at 8:18am PDT…
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140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 9, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 9, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Woman accused of firing shotgun at pedestrian in Moss Park road rage…
The Modern Fascist Uniform
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