A potpourri of liberal promises.
Reading the list of 26 resolutions passed at the liberal non-gathering last weekend is frustrating. There are duplications of themes, confusion in intent and cost considerations. And there are a…
April 2021
Another Alberta spring day: Premier lectures, Speaker apologizes, dissident pastor’s secret sermon revealed as anti-vaxxers chant ‘lock ’er up!’
Jason Kenney had barely decided what to do about his United Conservative Party’s dissident COVID-denial caucus when a mob of three or four hundred anti-vaxxers turned up on the steps…
I’ll miss the mayor
I was surprised when Naheed Nenshi won Calgary’s mayoral race in 2010. The odds-on favourite, a well-known alderman, had been running for years and, due to his popularity with developers,…
CNN: #TrudeauVaccineFailure
Canada’s vaccine shortage: Covid-19 cases per capita pass U.S. rate as doctors plead for more vaccines @paulanewtonCNN reports pic.twitter.com/IbGok749Ep — The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 12, 2021
Ezra Levant and the Revolt of the Covidiots
There is only one story I wanted to write about today. The story of our heroic front line workers who are in a desperate struggle to try to stop Covid's…
“Because it’s 1715.”
This is so disgusting, so despicable. They're not "feminists," like they claim. They're liars. "Liberals move to end defence committee study on military sexual misconduct" https://t.co/lmN0cG3LtI via @CTVNews #cdnpoli #lpc…
Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?
This excellent read, The Tyranny of Merit, by Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel, actually shifted some of my thinking, and I love a good lightbulb moment provoked by a book!…
A Year Late to the Fight?
For the past thirteen months we, as a nation, have been doing our best to fight back against COVID-19. Sometimes those efforts have worked, other times not so much, but…
Biden-led U.S. to power global economy
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Covid shrunk the global economy by 3.3 percent in 2020, the worst downturn since 1980. Almost 100 million people slipped into severe poverty.…
As If The World Weren’t Suffering Enough
Prepare to be tutored about the relationship between Covid swabs and zombies, thanks to the good offices of the most Reverend Jim Bakker: Right-wing conspiracy theorist Steve Quayle warns Jim…
France Banning Short Flights to Reduce Carbon Output
Flying isn’t so popular right now due to the pandemic and many airlines are financially hurting, and in France they are helping the Air France. Due to ineffectiveness in the…
Talking the Growing Third Wave of COVID-19 & Party Conventions on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
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 growing third wave of COVID-19 hitting…
Canada’s duty to consult: A legal veneer for colonialism?
The duty to consult has been at the heart of a number of important legal cases in Canada, but it is skewed toward colonialist justifications for capitalist extraction instead of…
A liberal performance.
According to Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star, Justin Trudeau was invoking the ghosts of liberal past at the weekend policy conference. While I rarely disagree with Ms. Delacourt, those…
We Move Together, a new disability justice children’s book
A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way. We Move…
The Crazies Have Taken Over
Over the weekend, Republicans changed the place where they were going to meet. The new venue was owned by Donald Trump. And the Republicans paid him to meet on his…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of April 12, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 12, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 12, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 12, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Harvey Weinstein Appeals Sex Crimes Conviction Over Accusers’ Testimony Netanyahu Corruption Trial…