"A Tasteless Joke"
That’s how Max Hastings, former boss to Boris Johnson, sees the future Tory prime minister. Six years ago, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark published a study of the outbreak of…
2019
Catherine McKenna on Carbon Tax, Green Investments, Election
At the 2019 Collision Conference Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna shared a panel discussion with Jonathan Baillie, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of the National…
Catherine McKenna on Carbon Tax, Green Investments, Election
At the 2019 Collision Conference Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna shared a panel discussion with Jonathan Baillie, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of the National…
Coastal Dreaming, Coastal Reality
It’s just a matter of time. As I go around my environs I spot places that will not be around much longer. These are usually waterfront homes that are periodically…
Doctor Shortage Bad News, Especially For Seniors
As much as we like to believe that we have wonderful health care we often do not. In a recent report on health care, Canada was rated as 30th amongst…
The minimum wage creates jobs—who knew?
With the election of conservative governments in Ontario and Alberta, progress on minimum wages in those provinces came to a screaming halt. In Ontario, the planned increase to $15 an…
My latest in the Sun: when they came for the Jews/Sikhs/Muslims, they said nothing
Silence. That’s all that could be heard from the federal party leaders, essentially: silence, or something approaching that. The occasion: the decision of assorted Quebec politicians to pass a law…
What a Final Straw
Everyone gets involved in politics for their own reasons, and those reasons can be quite varied. For many though, when it comes to those reasons for getting involved they are…
Insect numbers plummet 75%, putting the world on the edge of ‘ecological Armageddon’
We are running out of time. Our political leaders have sold us out, sold out the environment, ecology and threaten our future survival. Still, all we get from them is…
The Rot in the Neoliberal Order
Chris Hedges looks at the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London that left 72 people dead and sees it as a metaphor for neoliberalism and social decay. It is the…
Canada’s Top General Declares a Climate Emergency
Canadian soldiers are stretched to the limit. They are the latest casualties of our climate emergency. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Jonathan Vance, says he needs more soldiers. The…
Toronto Pride and the Inspiring Courage of Justin Trudeau
In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev yesterday about 8,000 people took part in a Pride march, that country's biggest one ever.It was a proud moment for that country's oppressed LGBT…
Horgan’s Conflicted NDP Has Put The Screws To Cowichan Tribes
We have already seen Horgan’s feigned support for First Nations, embracing UNDRIP and then jamming through Site C, fracking and LNG. Now it is Cowichan Tribes turn to face their…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of June 24, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of June 24, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun…
LET’S TALK: THE UNEXPECTED JOURNEY OF CARING
Hi Everyone Here in the Caregivers’ Living Room!Zachary White and I have been very busy recently promoting our new book, The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation From Loved One…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of June 24 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 24, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Supreme Court refuses to change double jeopardy rule in case with…
MEDIA RELEASE: Alberta should increase social spending; cuts are not the way to go
(June 24, 2019-Calgary) With Alberta’s economy still facing challenges and vulnerabilities, the Alberta government should not be doling out tax cuts or cutting social spending, according to the Alberta Alternative…
Even a broken clock, etc.
He could totally reverse himself five minutes after I tweet this, but @realDonaldTrump was right not to be goaded into a war with Iran. I can't believe I just wrote…
Character Is Destiny
Last Thursday, Boris Johnson and hs partner, Carrie Symonds, were involved in some kind of tiff. Mathew D’Ancona writes in The Guardian: I have argued in the past that Johnson’s…
Doug Ford’s Friends. Andrew Scheer’s Friends Too?
Doug Ford’s relations with Faith Goldy and other white supremacists remind us that we TRULY need to exercise caution and thought in the upcoming federal election, but he shares many…