End of October Pandemic Election-palooza
On Saturday we saw British Columbians finish their 42nd General Election, which resulted in the re-election of John Horgan’s New Democrats to a good-sized majority government. It was a campaign…
October 2020
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of October 26, 2020
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of October 26, 2020. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Building New Solar Energy Plants Cheaper than Running Coal
Since the inception of Things Are Good we’ve been following the demise of dirty fossil fuel usage and the rise of clean energy. A few highlights from over the years:…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 26, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 26, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Vile, Racist Postings’ by N.Y. Court Officers Included Obama in a Noose…
Understanding ranked ballots.
It looks as though we need to be sure we are on the same side when it comes to understanding ranked ballots in voting. Some people think they are a…
Husky and Come by Chance Updates #nlpoli
There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have. It has nothing to do with the gibberish of "decarbonization" or…
Husky and Come by Chance Updates #nlpoli
There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have. It has nothing to do with the gibberish of “decarbonization” or…
Activate the COVID Alert App in Alberta. Activate it right now!
With coronavirus pandemic surging in most parts of Canada, most definitely including Alberta, the federal government needs to make its COVID Alert exposure notification app available in this province immediately.…
Horgan’s gamble pays off big: B.C. NDP win historic majority government
The post Horgan’s gamble pays off big: B.C. NDP win historic majority government first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Chris Champion and the Curriculum Review
Mr Kenney handpicked Mr Champion, a historian, as a subject area expert to provide recommendations for the Kenney government’s revamp of the social studies curriculum for kindergarten to grade 4…
Large Danish trial could put an end to the masking debate…
A large randomized control trial could finally put an end to the whole masking debate. Three Danish hospitals as well as the Technical University of Denmark have conducted what may…
Remembering Québec’s October Crisis
Troops on Montréal streets during the October Crisis, 1970. Photo courtesy the Toronto Star archives. 50 years ago this month, the federal government, invoking the War Measures Act—its first use…
BC NDP cruise to a majority, but the real work lies ahead
BC NDP leader John Horgan speaks during a campaign stop, October 12, 2020. Photo from Flickr. As widely predicted, British Columbia’s NDP government has renewed its mandate with a thumping…
Nothing to fear this Halloween
I was never a big fan of Halloween as a kid. I always had a fear of being mugged by bigger kids who might rip open my pillow case and…
Sunday Afternoon #skvotes Links
The latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign as election day approaches tomorrow. – A new poll shows the race tightening significantly, including with the NDP holding a significant lead in…
This week’s Sparky: the problem ain’t going away, folks!
This week’s Sparky: the problem ain’t going away, folks! pic.twitter.com/QY1dXUhSel — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 25, 2020
Trump is a symptom, not the cause
A friend was recently expressing hope that the political party I work for, the Democrats, will emerge triumphant in November, taking both the White House and the Senate. I said…
The Morning After: The 42nd British Columbia General Election
Yesterday may have been a Saturday but we saw something out in British Columbia that we rarely see on a weekend in this country; an election day. It marked the…
Sunday #skvotes Links
News and notes on election eve in Saskatchewan. – Julia Peterson reports on a record number of new COVID-19 cases in the province yesterday, while CKOM reports that Saskatoon’s Lighthouse…