140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 13, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 13, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
July 2020
The Mob In Control
Roger Stone is a free man and the reasons he walks free are in plain sight. David Frum writes: Roger Stone’s best trick was always his upper-class-twit wardrobe. He seemed…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 13, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 13, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Bob Rae named Canadian ambassador to the United Nations NHL, players’ union…
Please do not label me.
While this is not about me, I admit that I do not like being labelled by people who do not know me. It matters not what my racial origin might…
The challenge of change #nlpoli
Change is hard. It’s even harder when no one wants to change. Our Former Dear Premier Some people outside the Liberal Party have been obsessed lately with the leadership contest…
Whether or not half of Alberta’s doctors are thinking of leaving, even a much smaller exodus would be a disaster
Publication by the Alberta Medical Association of poll results showing close to half the province’s physicians are thinking about leaving Alberta in response to the United Conservative Party’s War on…
How Canadian is this scandal, really?
So I guess the Globe and Mail thinks we’re supposed to be outraged now that prominent Canadians have raised money for an outstanding charity? What a typically Canadian scandal this…
Is this the end of ‘the E word’?
As you may know, there is a controversy over the name of the Edmonton Canadian Football League franchise. The Edmonton …. I dunno, Energy? Emeralds? Executives? Exhibitionists? End Zones? Various…
The Cancer Diaries Part 1
I should have started this a while ago. Perhaps when I received the first news something as wrong. But it took a while to really sink in. And then it…
in which i reflect on the joys of summer in north vancouver island, especially during the pandemic
In 2015, Allan and I moved into an apartment, for the first time since leaving New York City in late 2005. We had rented a series of houses for 10…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – T.M. Scanlon analyzes the dangerous effects of wealth inequality. And Philip Alston discusses how COVID-19 has only exposed an existing pandemic of…
Finding A Way Forward
Jim Stanford writes that Canada’s recent employment numbers are good. But we have a long way to go: The headline growth in jobs (almost one million more Canadians were working…
And a sneer from Scheer.
It was difficult to assess all sides of the discussion last week to the finance minister’s snapshot of Canada’s financial position. To be fair, minister Morneau is not a dynamic…
Why The Fake WE Scandal Is Going To Hurt The Cons More Than The Liberals
Trust me, the last thing I wanted to do today is write about the absurd WE fake scandal.I had a hammock, a good book, and a big bowl of juicy…
Covid Journal, July 11, 2020
America passports are worthless; The CLAW – paying nothing, collecting it all.
Ellen Gabriel on the 30th anniversary of the 1990 ‘Oka Crisis’
Kanien’kehá:ka human rights and environmental rights activist Ellen Gabriel during the police and military siege of Kanehsatake, commonly know as the “Oka Crisis”, summer 1990. Today marks the 30th anniversary…
Why We Need to Update the Parks Control By-Law on Sheltering in Parks
The following comes from the staff report to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. The full report Parks Control By-law Updates – Temporary Shelter in Parks can be found…
Balance
Oy. Sometimes I just want to bury my head in the sand. The state of things is terrifying and grotesque, especially if you understand what is really happening with this…