Doug Ford Reveals His Dumb Inner Beast. Again.
In a better time with higher standards, Doug Ford would never have become the Premier of Canada's largest province. And like many other Canadians, I did my best to warn…
In a better time with higher standards, Doug Ford would never have become the Premier of Canada's largest province. And like many other Canadians, I did my best to warn…
Hibernating cats.
“One of the biggest reasons I left was because I was surrounded by phonies. That’s all.”
It’s hard to watch Donald Trump debase himself and whatever legacy he might have achieved through his presidency. It’s a creepy spectacle to watch as he throws away his last…
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and…
December 21, Winter Solstice The darkest day of the longest year has finally passed. December 21 is the traditional ‘Winter Solstice’ night, where in the northern hemisphere, the number of…
Torkil Lauesen, author of The Global Perspective and The Principal Contradiction, was recently interviewed by the Manifestering podcast. The discussion touches on contemporary and historical Maoism in Western Europe and…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katherine Scott and David Macdonald take a look at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canada’s labour force survey data –…
2020 is thankfully coming to a close. This year has been hard for so many, with one bad thing after another happening. It’s been a year that pretty much everyone…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell. We talked about Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s announcement of Ontario’s new COVID-19 lockdown, how…
Donald Trump is entering his final days as president. And the end looks like a loopy movie. Richard Wolffe writes: The last days of the Trump presidency increasingly resemble the…
A Calgary superior court judge yesterday made short work of the bid by the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to get an emergency injunction blocking public health restrictions on…
One could divide Alberta up in various ways. First, as in most provinces and elsewhere, there is town and country, the old story of liberal cities and socially conservative hinterlands.…
Doel Nuclear Power Station, one of two nuclear power plants in Belgium. Photo by Frédéric Paulussen/Unsplash. For many kids who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Star Trek was…
What used to be the Trump administration has been reduced to a coven of lunacy. He has retreated to his bunker, abandoning the issues of the day – the pandemic,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Lewis writes about the need for firm and decisive public health action to stop the spread of COVID-19, rather than the excuse-making…
One of our true national treasures, Linda McQuaig (why has she not received an Order of Canadah?) recently wrote an article detailing the abysmal conditions under which pigs await slaughter.…
Traditionally, politicians have framed issues as binary choices. Don Lenihan and Andrew Balfour write that “the binary approach frames issues as a choice between two mutually exclusive options (either/or) and then picks…
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of December 21, 2020. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 21, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Gaps in safeguards led to massive Desjardins security breach: privacy commissioners U.K.…