140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of April 20, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 20, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr…
2020
To All Trump Enthusiasts Everywhere
I’m sure your master endorses this message. Meanwhile, Heather Mallick has an interesting explanation for the servile attitude so many Americans have toward their clown president. Why do Americans, alleged…
All The Perfumes Of Arabia . . .
When historians write about the Trump Era, they will have to confront his impeachment. And they will no doubt conclude that Congress’s failure to remove him from office was a…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 20, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 20,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: An ER doctor loses custody of daughter because of coronavirus fears How Toronto…
Covid Journal, April 20, 2020
What is terrorism if it’s not being forced to hide in your basement waiting for someone disguised as an RCMP officer to shoot you in the back?
Learning to love your local MP.
In our time of need, do you not love the attention we are getting from our local politicians? I am thinking here of your federal member of parliament. This person…
The three CVD19 pressures the NL government will face #nlpoli
Last week, SRBP raised the likelihood that declining numbers of active cases of CVD19 in Newfoundland and Labrador will put pressure on the provincial government to ease the current restrictions…
COVID-19 Can’t Stop Eugene Smith Streaming From the Duncan Showroom
Musical heroes are using the Duncan Showroom to bring joy and a needed break from the constant barrage of Covid 19 coverage. Veteran soul-roots crooner Eugene Smith, a Cowichan tunesmith…
Apparently Sweden’s answer is no
Sweden has refused to join the rest of us in a lockdown. How’s that working?
Devin Dreeshen’s happy talk about workplace safety undermines the battle against COVID-19
By insisting Alberta’s meat-packing plants are safe to work in despite crowded conditions and ignoring workers’ pleas to temporarily close large slaughterhouses to halt the spread of COVID-19, Alberta Agriculture…
Gaslighting 101: Mr Kenney Responds to Mr Trudeau’s Aid Package
Gaslighting: abusive behavior where an abuser manipulates information to make his victim question their sanity by using denial, misdirection, contradiction and misinformation to destabilize the victim and delegitimize their beliefs.…
Modest Rental Supplements Aren’t Enough. We Need More Public Housing Now.
Downtown Eastside (DTES), Vancouver, during the coronavirus pandemic, April 19, 2020. Photo from Flickr. After the spread of COVID-19 resulted in massive job losses, provincial governments across Canada have over…
What Was It Again? Oh Yeah, This Changes Everything. Right.
If you read the funny papers you’ve probably come across several op-eds arguing that, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic or in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and…
April 18: Back in the saddle again….
An interesting development is the way so many world leaders are dumping on China, blaming it for the slowness in dealing with the spread of coronavirus.I really don’t know whether…
RIP, Constable.
RIP RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson. pic.twitter.com/4lgRJyHSDQ — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 19, 2020
Albertans Want off the Oil Train … Eventually
A common opinion about Albertans is that when it comes to energy they are about oil and nothing but oil. Like most generalizations this contains some truth, but also like…
Magpie Brûlé Video Podcast: How Should Parliament Return?
In this first video episode, I talk about the return of Parliament, how that should happen & how we should expect all parties to be acting while the country fights…
And my COVID-19 test result is …
“Open wide …” All this week, I’ve had a cold. My sinuses were plugged like a frat house toilet, and I developed a cough that sounded like an angry harp…