Democracy Defied.
Canadians kid themselves about our democracy. It is not by any stretch a true democracy. According to official records, it is a constitutional monarchy, where the governor general represents the…
October 2020
A Real Sh*tshow of an Election – B.C. Votes
My mail-in ballot arrived last week. It’s still sitting uncompleted on my coffee table. For several years I’ve been a committed Green Party member. After leaving the Liberals, Elizabeth May…
Thankful
This is the best public health messaging I’ve seen all year. #Covid19 pic.twitter.com/Oc5iMMJVx8 — Gerald Butts ?? ???? (@gmbutts) October 9, 2020 Well, as a matter of fact I DO…
On anachronisms
Taking another look at the respective platforms of the Saskatchewan NDP and Saskatchewan Party, it’s striking to see how little of the policy content – as compared to the surrounding…
Government of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich – The Republicans’ Plutocratic Agenda
Give Mitch McConnell his due. To him, hypocrisy in defence of plutocracy is no vice. How else to explain how Senate Republicans never met a tax cut for the rich…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Douglas Jang discusses how a bias toward slow and limited government has made our response less effective. Pouyan Tabasinejad points out that…
kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy #2 (October 2020)
available from leftwingbooks.net The second issue (Oct. 2020) of this communist journal is now available from leftwingbooks.net — the following is taken from its opening editorial : Revolutionary philosophy, strategy,…
Shame on the Shameless
We’re living in stressed times and that is starting to show in some of our discourse more so than usual. That is extending onto social media, a place where things…
David Gilbert, other elder inmates deserve clemency, by Jerome Wright
I am in my 12th year on parole after having spent 30-plus consecutive years in various correctional facilities in New York State. Since my release on parole , I strive…
Spark – by Canadian Stephen Shellenberger
This movie by Stephen Shellenberger is about a man who finds himself living in a strange world that he never knew existed. As he falls, tumbles down the rabbit hole…
Spark – by Canadian Stephen Shellenberger
This movie by Stephen Shellenberger is about a man who finds himself living in a strange world that he never knew existed. As he falls, tumbles down the rabbit hole…
Spark – by Canadian Stephen Shellenberger
SPARK (Festival Screening Copy) from Kim Ange on Vimeo. About a man who finds himself living in a strange world that he never knew existed. As he falls, tumbles down…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of October 13, 2020
Here are our Top 10 law tweets for the week of October 13, 2020. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Johnny Rotten is dead
…or should be.
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 13, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 13, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Assisted dying bill to be reintroduced today as court deadline looms Justices…
Weather Doesn’t Matter Where There’s Good Bicycling Infrastructure
People opposed to multiple transit solutions often argue that it’s not worth building bicycle lanes because nobody rides in the rain. They couldn’t be more wrong. A new study from…
The state of news media in Newfoundland and Labrador – 1988 #nlpoli
Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, "Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics" in Gary Levy and Graham White,…
The state of news media in Newfoundland and Labrador – 1988 #nlpoli
Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, "Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics" in Gary Levy and Graham White,…