Alberta’s Reopening Plan: “The Best Alberta Summer Ever”
“Today we are truly near the end of this thing. We’re finally getting back to normal, and I think it means the best Alberta summer ever.” – Premier Jason Kenney…
May 2021
Let’s Talk Dirt
When I was a child I went to visit my grandfather’s farm outside Leamington. The fields that would soon deliver an abundance of tomatoes for Heinz or sweet corn and…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bartley Kives discusses the Pallister PC’s failure to respond to warnings about a new COVID wave (which of course reflects a pattern among…
Get Used to It. We Have Problems, Serious Problems, That We Can’t or Won’t Fix.
A lot of us have this “they’ll think of something” attitude whenever talk turns to the looming, even existential threats of the day. I have a friend, a guy who…
The Pandora’s Box is opened
Many of you know my views on the author. The fact that I am sharing his essay here should tell you how important this subject is.
The Triumph of Neo-Feudalism
When Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney ushered in the neoliberal era of globalized free trade we were fed a package of lies. Yes, we would say goodbye to most of our…
Talking Kamloops Residential School Discovery 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 Lisa Kirbie. We discussed the news of the discovery of remains…
Amnesia and fragmentation in the narrative of Israel’s occupation of Palestine
A Palestinian youth placed a flag on the Israeli Separation Wall during a protest marking nine years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in,…
Free speech on Palestine: Time to push back
At least 10,000 people rallied in Melbourne, Australia to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of ongoing attacks and aggression from the Israeli government, May 15,…
Is Alberta’s UCP government trying to open a new front in the old Cold War?
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney provides an update on the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Alberta, February 19, 2021. Photo courtesy Alberta Newsroom/Flickr. Last month, a “deeply concerned” Alberta Advanced Education…
King Coal In Alberta
The Grassy Narrows Project is a proposal to establish open-pit coal mining in the southern Canadian Rockies. A panel will soon decide whether or not to approve the proposal. Andrew…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of May 31, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of May 31, 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 May 31, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 31, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Manhattan DA convenes grand jury in Trump probe, Washington Post reports US…
This sad week
I was going to put up another funny post, but not tonight. This week I read the books Nomadland and Snakes in Suits so I was a little bummed out…
Spare me your pious bullshit
Flags at half mast, and earnest tweets, and stirring press releases, mean jackshit when you’re talking about babies and children who were killed with impunity, right? Right? — Warren Kinsella…
Episode 75: Amarjeet Sohi is running for Mayor of Edmonton
Amarjeet Sohi joins the Daveberta Podcast to talk about why he is running to become the next Mayor of Edmonton and discuss his experiences moving to Canada as a young…
I wanted to share his story with you to help educate others and bring awareness to a part of our history that was swept under the rug by the Canadian government for well over a century.
Originally posted on Facebook Maskwasis Boysis is with Jackie Houle. 31 December 2014 · This is a photo of my late father at the Erminskin residential school in…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Michael McGrath highlights how the COVID-19 B.1.617 variant represents a serious threat to the prospect of safely relaxing restrictions over the…
“Isn’t Who We Are”
A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018…