April 30 2021 The encampment in Strathcona Park has come to a close with the vast majority of people who had been sleeping overnight in the park having moved into…
I understand why people gaining direct financial rewards support the Peace River megaproject. But it is harder to explain why rational and, we hope, honest cabinet ministers stay attached to…
Who says rock ‘n’ roll and pop music can’t improve the political consciousness? In my final year of journalism the Carleton, and in my first year of law school in…
Filo & Peri feat. Audrey Gallagher – This Night (Max Graham Remix)
Our government’s failure to source Covid vaccines may leave Canadians in for a grim surprise. Most Canadians who have been vaccinated are told they’ll have to wait for four months…
That it took more than a year into a once-in-a-generation public health crisis for an NDP government to introduce such a basic provision as provincial sick pay is beyond disappointing.…
I’m back – turned out my keyboard had somehow disconnected itself from my laptop operating system and they needed to find each other again. Sorta like this: The great escape…
Much has been broken over the last months, and since the upgrade to a business level account and domains, these blogs have been nothing but a PITA. Nothing has made…
Nobody wanted to know. That might be a fitting epitaph for the human species. They didn’t want to know. This blog used to have almost daily posts on the climate…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario MPP Randy Hillier charged after organizing anti-lockdown rally via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Assorted content to end your week. – Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey Lazarus, Devi Sridhar and Samantha Vanderslott examine how strategies aimed at eradicating…
We reached out to the creators of the True Cost of Coal rhyming narrative & activity book to learn more about the beautiful book and why they decided to make…
It can be infuriating to read of these scofflaws who organize Covid parties or anti-mask rallies that, like moths to a flame, draw the village idiots to gather and expose…
This week, Joe Biden proposed his American Families Plan. Paul Krugman writes that, while the plan has many parts, it will create a lot of jobs. And the Republicans are…
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Bill C-10 is a disaster waiting to happen. Petition to make it stop.
The Canada Emergency Response Benefit has been an essential lifeline for millions of Canadians during the pandemic, amounting to just the sort of no-strings-attached Basic Income that had already been…
This is an open and shut case. Ontario premier Doug Ford is obviously an ideologue. His beliefs and actions in government prove that he is committed to extreme right-wing political…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
If there was an obvious takeaway yesterday afternoon from Premier Jason Kenney’s announcement Alberta is reimposing “targeted regional measures to bend the curve,” it was that his government’s inconsistent, indecisive…
Among the numerous seriously unpleasant men leading countries in the world today, Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, must be included. Perhaps his most odious policy is his support for…
