Why the WEgate Fake Scandal Will Not Take Down Trudeau
I must admit I didn't think that the fake WE scandal would have any effect on the Liberal party standings, or on the popularity of Justin Trudeau.It's so obviouly a…
July 2020
Oh yeah, that other pandemic.
Nathan Cullen is with Travis Homberg and Kyle Mortamer. 2d · A tale of two pandemics – one is getting 99% of the public’s attention while the other kills more…
The “new normal”
A 75 year old man gets his skull fractured by riot police – for bringing back their helmet – and the hew and cry on Twitter is that he got…
Critical Info On Health & Stress
(An email I just sent to friends, I will share here.) Lea, other friends, look!!! Useful info for everyone, even critical info, I’d say: Healing Chronic Stress and Disease…
Is Trump About to Go Extra-Constitutional? Rule by Decree, Bypassing Congress?
Trump’s totalitarian instincts have never lurked very far from the surface. Now there’s word he’s looking for ways to circumvent the House and Senate so that he can rule America…
On microaggressions in academia
The foremost issue of structural inequality in academia, and the most quantifiable, is the growing divide between part-time sessional instructors on year-to-year contracts with no job security. Illustration by Sam…
On evident waste
There doesn’t seem to be much dispute that the Saskatchewan Party is thumbing its nose at the movement to defund the police by making a point of announcing funding increases…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Scott Gilmore wonders whether we’ll use the lessons of COVID-19 to set up our own “tsunami stones” to prevent future crises. But Tom…
Prime Minister, WE have a problem
Down ten points in eight weeks. That’s hard to do, but the Trudeau Liberals did it.
Thought For The Day
Amen. Recommend this Post
Architecture & Home Design: Raising the Bar
This is my favourite home design so far. (Video below) Every home and building should be passive solar, and every home or building should be an Earth Home –…
Can an atheist be a good citizen?
The answer to the headline’s question is no, at least according to the late Catholic priest Richard John Neuhaus in a podcast in the Socrates in the City series (Sept.…
Education & Reading
I wrote these thoughts for the tiny home movement, which, although it is mainly arising out of economic injustice and sheer necessity, I think is still, nevertheless, a very positive,…
john lewis and c.t. vivian, rest in power
What a sad and moving coincidence, that two great freedom fighters died on the same day. I chose these photos as a reminder that doing the right thing may involve…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 20, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 20, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
Destroying The System
We now have a western separatist movement on the prairies. Don Lenihan writes that it’s part of the populist wave that has swept the world. It’s important to understand how…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 20, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 20, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Continued suspension to November 2 of Ontario Small Claims Court operations due…
“When Giants Walked Among Us.”
That line about giants came in an e-mail from a reader the other day. It was referring to the time of Lester B. Pearson, Pierre E. Trudeau, John and Robert…
Change versus more of the same: Summer 2020 edition #nlpoli
Spring 1994. At the point Clyde Wells spoke to the graduating class of Memorial University’s business school that year, the administration he led had already started getting government spending under…