Can America 3.0 Survive?
When the 2011 Occupy movement sparked and flared and, in short order, fizzled out, a lot of people said “well, that’s that.” I didn’t see it that way. That such…
2018
The Kingsway Cases at the LPAT: An (Unrepresented) Party’s Observations, Part 2: For the Record
This is the second part of my post bringing everyone up-to-speed on where appeals to the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) of land use decisions for a casino/arena/parking lot on…
Obrador and Mexico’s Watershed Election
Photo by ProtoplasmaKid The July 1 national election in Mexico is likely to be a watershed in Mexican history. The splintering of the three old parties, their unprincipled tactical electoral…
Trudeau fan calls for my wife to be raped
Kristen and Lisa weigh in. It's an incredibly sad world when ones reaction to @kinsellawarren writing is to hope his wife gets assaulted next. I'm so sorry this is happening…
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Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 3, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 3, 2018. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul 3, 2018 at 7:19am PDT…
To Go, Or Not To Go
I have written elsewhere on this blog about the decision I and others have made to boycott travel to the U.S. as long as Donald Trump and his peculiar brand…
If Justin Trudeau was a client
Both of us find that laughable, believe me. So there’s at least one thing we agree on. Something on which we likely wouldn’t agree is this: the problem caused by…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 3, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 3, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Justices Send Clash Between Florist and Gay Couple Back to Lower Courts…
Mr Harper Goes To Washington
We still don't know much about Stephen Harper's secret visit to the White House. Or what he might have talked about with Donald Trump's senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow.For that…
Ralston Saul On Trumpland
To help explain what is happening in Donald Trump’s United States, Chris Hedges has turned to John Ralston Saul. Saul believes that the United States has experienced a “corporate coup…
Two cities rebuttal.
Had an interesting objection to my kind comments about Toronto mayor John Tory last week. The reader provided an extensive list of what he considered to be the mayor’s failings.…
Electricity prices, risk, and what the editors didn’t say #nlpoli
Okay. What Muskrat Falls will do to electricity prices is not funny. Never was. But what *is* extremely funny are columns like Russell Wangersky’s latest hand-wringer about the most recent…
Ryan Dean is a Glorious Dumpster Fire
ARC doesn't hasn't been writing a great deal about Ryan "Deadbeat" Dean of late aside from his conviction for domestic abuse and his continuing vendetta against the Canadian Combat Coalition…
Pennywise singer on New Dark Ages: “fast-paced and engaging”!
Jim Lindberg, the legendary lead singer of punk gods Pennywise, read an advance copy of New Dark Ages! And here’s what he says about it! “This fast paced, engaging and…
My Mom and Canada Day
I’ve always had a tough time remembering my mom’s birthday. Mom was born a couple of days after Canada Day and I was usually off in La La Land celebrating…
Washington Post: I’m a “popular political commentator”
Will this boost my billable rate?
Time Marches On. Today, in Global Security.
Here are a few plums from Foreign Policy’s latest security review. NBC News reports that Kim Jong Un has pulled a fast one on the Dotard from Merde-a-Lardo. Even as…