Removing Highways Improves Cities
Urban highways occupy a lot of space that can otherwise be used for parks, housing, offices, or anything else that produces economic benefits. The post war highway building boom in…
June 2021
Capitalism is on life support. We have a decision to make
An investor looks on as prices fall at a stock brokerage house in Hangzhou, China. Photo from Shutterstock. Last year, after a bone cancer diagnosis, my family was faced with…
The Deadline
Today is the day. The Washington Post reports that: Prosecutors in New York have given former president Donald Trump’s attorneys a deadline of Monday afternoon to make any final arguments…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of June 28, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of June 28, 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 June 28, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 28, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Supreme Court rules against NCAA, opening door to compensation well beyond…
In Disdain of Demagogues.
It was easy enough to identify U.S. president Donald Trump as being a demagogue. He exhibited all the hallmarks while in office. He was a brash, boisterous braggard. He would…
Definitive answers about AIMCo’s investment strategy weren’t forthcoming at Heritage Savings Trust Fund Committee meeting
If anyone expected definitive answers about the Alberta Investment Management Corp.’s underperformance compared to that of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board at Friday’s meeting of the Legislature’s Standing Committee…
Critical Update For Pet Owners
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They’re Paving Paradise to Put Up a Parking Lot
By now you’re aware that our council has approved a plan to destroy a large open, public space in Harbourview Park, and replace healthy grass and trees with an asphalt…
McKenna
I liked her. She made mistakes, but she also had guts – and she put up with an enormous amount of sexist bullshit. I suspect we haven’t heard the last…
The Marieval Residential School
This weekend Ms Soapbox was going to write a breezy little blog saying she was taking the summer off. She was going to wish everyone a safe and pleasant summer…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Patricia Treble discusses how the rise of the Delta COVID-19 variant is making it vital to hit higher vaccine targets than previously…
A Question Needing Answers
The New York Times’ Ezra Klein asks a question on the minds of many – can Western democracy rise to meet the challenge of the climate emergency? Klein has convened…
Battle of the butts: how we (almost) beat smoking
While driving around town recently, I saw something that actually made me come up short. The guy behind me was not pleased. Nothing turns a woman on more than blowing…
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north By M. GOULDHAWKEMARCH 10, 2020 “The myth of the RCMP is that they came to protect us from the…
Council: Disarray, Disunited, Disrespectful
Chris Pott’s latest blog post, titled “Council in Major Disarray” captures in part the stumbling, bumbling, and fumbling in-fighting that has become endemic in our council and is now on…
The truth is possibly maybe sort of out there
From the piece by The X Files’ Chris Carter in today’s New York Times: Curiously, Barack Obama, who once joked sarcastically about U.F.O.s on late night TV, is now admitting…
Building Back Better
In the middle of the Second World War, the British government — with an eye to the future — decided to review all of the programs it administered. Robin Sears…