Parliament will soon hear a petition criticizing the only explicitly racist registered Canadian charity. Oddly, this important event will occur without help from self-declared anti-racist organizations. Recently Independent Jewish Voices…
Photo by European Parliament The NDP is currently at its lowest level of popularity since its meteoric rise in 2011, when the party won 103 seats, including 59 in Québec,…
Relentless reports of the escalating climate emergency have given impetus to appeals for a Green New Deal. Most recently in Canada, a coalition of NGOs, activists and celebrities has rallied…
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, the earliest ever. That’s not a good thing. July 29 marks the day on which humanity, the lot of us, have consumed the total volume of…
There’s news this morning about Teck Resources play to open a new pit in the Athabasca Tar Sands. It promises to be a major investment, 20 billion, and the company…
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the simultaneous assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the military garrison in Bayamo led by Fidel Castro and less than…
It's not easy to get back to the sweltering heat of the city after spending two days sailing through the coolest part of Lake Ontario, far from the madding crowds,…
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 29, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bob Rivett highlights the fact that climate protesters are motivated by the desire to save our world from the reckless corporations and politicians…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 29, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: 4 B.C. sisters victorious in court after parents left them tiny share…
Paul Fromm is perhaps the leading Canadian far Right leader. Fromm has decades of involvement with the Canadian organized hate movement, from the Edmund Burke Society to the Western Guard…
Poor Andrew Scheer. He had hoped that Doug Ford would take the summer off and keep his mouth shut. But Doug likes the limelight. Antonia Zerbesias writes: Ford, whose popularity,…
There is a pattern emerging. What particular hell we are heading for might still be a mystery but I fear the pace is accelerating. What you would have thought impossible…
Politics and policy are much more complicated things than they appear to many people. Change is possible, but effective change can only come if we see the world as it…
Norway made a choice to take a material share of oil and gas revenues and distribute the value of its non-renewable resources to citizens over multiple generations. Alberta, British Columbia…
Optimists assert that the benefits from technological innovation will be able to outpace the negative effects of climate change. This view of climate change may be a dangerous act of…
I stayed in the small town I was born in, and it got big around me. Like parents of young kids, who fall into the trap of continuing to see…
Across the Middle East, climate change-driven heatwaves and drought are giving rise to destabilizing impacts. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reports that the country is dangerously unprepared for global food shortages.…
Tour de France. Like the World Cup of soccer, the best of sports on a global scale. Or as my grade 8 teacher, Brother Victor, once referring to soccer as…
