Separation wall between Israel and the West Bank near Jerusalem. Photo by Mazur Travel/Shutterstock. The last ten years of my career were spent running Jewish communities as an executive in…
Kate Reed Petty’s True Story is one of the most impressive debut novels you’ll ever read. It is both a riveting page-turner and a narrative puzzle, twisting and turning in…
COVID should have taught us many lessons. Andrew Nikiforuk has enumerated 10 of them. Robert Reich has added another 8. Here are three of the most important: 1. Workers are…
While walking our dog recently, we encountered another couple “our age” (somewhere between 65 and 90) also walking their dog. While the two pets sniffed and frolicked, we chatted with…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 25, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: How a workplace investigation at York University has left this Black professor…
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of May 25, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Happy Victoria Day! It is amazing how much difference a year makes. This time last May Canada was still coming to terms with what fighting Covid-19 would look like (even…
@kinsellawarren, @timothydenton and Daniel Bernhard from @friendscb will be our expert panelists this Tuesday evening on #UnpublishedTV with host @EdHandMedia, as we dig into Bill C-10 and its impact on…
I try to restrain any excitement that bubbles up over the prospect that education will be different when all this ends, assuming it will end. Teachers have suddenly had to…
Chris Hedges is an outspoken, full throated supporter of Palestine and its people. You won’t find a shred of neutrality in him but he would say exactly the same about…
At some level most of us probably know that solar panels and electric cars won’t be enough to avert a climate catastrophe. Yet they do appeal to our inner “lazy…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jenna Gettings et al. study the massive effect masking and improved ventilation have in reducing the spread of the coronavirus in elementary schools.…
Next month, the US will release a report on everything (almost) the government knows about UFOs, now called UAPs or Unmanned Aerial Phenomenon. The report is expected to include scores…
Not Without Laughter The Souls of Black Folk Full Surrogacy Now The Selected Works of Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Autobiography of…
Continuing with a theme, I found these videos of more stupid people, this group enjoying yesterday’s fine weather in Toronto. While thousands of parents were lined up with their kids…
On Friday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Lucas Meyer for a rare Friday “Political Heat” panel. We talked the release of Ontario’s…
Alternative title: It Happens in Canada, Too. Desmond Cole’s book, The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power may be a difficult book for white Canadians to…
Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy is a political animal — a totally political animal. Michelle Cottle writes: Last week, he set heads shaking by announcing his opposition to the bill…
When the First Folio was published in 1623, it had 36 of the Bard’s plays, listed in three categories: histories, tragedies, and comedies (it didn’t include his longer poems, or…
Ninety-nine per cent of the delegates to the Alberta Teachers Association’s virtual annual representative assembly voted Sunday to affirm a motion of non-confidence in Education Minister Adriana LaGrange. There’s no…
