Protesters march against COVID-19 prevention measures in Vancouver, April 27, 2020. Photo from Flickr. Last Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered in Winkler, Manitoba to publicly oppose their school division’s COVID-19…
Alberta has now passed a significant milestone — more COVID-19 cases than at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, 3,138 compared to 3,022 on…
It gives one a warm feeling to see a brilliant, compassionate, progressive political leader succeed in a world that often seems committed to elevating the worst of the lot. The…
The question for this election should be, who do you want as MLA, Rob Douglas the environmentally conscious NDP candidate who can influence government decisions or do you want a…
Bolivian President-elect Luis Arce (centre) shortly after the announcement of the election results, October 18, 2020. Photo courtesy of Luis Arce/Twitter. Despite a year of unbridled state repression, including massacres…
Did ya hear Albertans? It’s time for a fuckin’ holiday! A tax holiday that is. For the rest of the duration of the UCP’s grift oil & gas companies will…
I’ve always found it interesting to see what becomes of failed, long shot leadership candidates, it’s been a poli-geeky interest of mine. There are many people who run (or try…
The Canadian government has vowed to ban single-use plastics by end of 2021, but its plan doesn’t go nearly far enough. Photo by Tom Page/Flickr. In Canada, only nine percent…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the latest from Nova Scotia and the…
I’ve previously made note of the problems with media coverage of Saskatchewan’s provincial election, including its consistently echoing and amplifying false Saskatchewan Party talking points about budgeting. But let’s take…
Think of them as collateral damage from the nearly four-year term of the Trump administration. They’re the men and women who were either fired or resigned from Team Trump and,…
When Scott Moe first heard about the coronavirus, he smelled opportunity. And that can take many forms. No, Moe didn’t call the spring election that he initially planned. But he…
Assorted content to start your week. – Agustin Carstens discusses the need for our recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to include meaningful planning for the economy to come, not only…
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of October 19, 2020. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Assuming that Donald Trump loses the election, the people who work for him will soon be looking for employment. Jennifer Rubin writes that they might have trouble finding their next…
Aaswath Raman, a material scientist at UCLA, has looked into the past to solve today’s problems. He has led a team that’s created an impressive device that uses radiative cooling…
When I find myself in times of trouble, I go back to read Montaigne. Seeking words of wisdom, Read some more… (to the tune of Let It Be, with apologies…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 19, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Facing steep fines, Nova Scotians with COVID-19 tickets are trickling into court…
It’s amazing how it can be the little things that can make some of the biggest impacts in our political life. That’s something that has proved to be true over…
Thinking back to that lame throne speech that took so long and said so little, it is now clear that prime minister Justin Trudeau was wrong. He promised us a…
