Can Erin O’Toole and his Bigot Party Look More Like Losers?
Erin O'Toole looked a little subdued yesterday. He just wasn't his usual Trudeau bashing self. But then who can blame him? After more than half of his Bigot Party caucus…
June 2021
Tipping Points – Closer Than We Imagine?
You don’t hear much talk anymore about positive feedback loops, tipping points or runaway global warming. Those things don’t fit into the current narrative of our governments, especially the major…
Fixing the housing crisis will mean treating shelter as a right—not a commodity
The housing affordability crisis is not just a crisis of home ownership, affordable rent, and access to permanent shelter; it’s also a crisis of community and well-being, writes David Moscrop.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – ABC News reports on the risk that the Delta COVID-19 variant can be spread through “fleeting” exposure rather than prolonged proximity. Daniel Boffey…
Racist is as racist does
It’s like when some of his ministers were accused of sexual misconduct: he couldn’t fire them for something which he had done himself. Ipso facto, a Prime Minister who wore…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 25, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: N.B.-N.S. border remains closed due to protest about isolation requirements via CBC Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06252021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Kenney’s incompetence costs lives
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces new public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Photo by Andrew Peloso/Government of Alberta. Jason Kenney’s premiership was…
Government in Action or Government Inaction
A 12-story condo in Miami suffered a partial collapse. Four residents died. 51 others remain unaccounted for. Some estimates have the missing at 159. Who knew? Who could have known?…
More Council Secrecy, More Lawyers Paid
On Thursday, June 24, our council again scurried behind closed doors to do town business out of the light of public scrutiny. Oh, how they love doing their machinations in…
The Law Is Catching Up With Rudy
Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani’s license to practice law in New York was suspended. Ruth Marcus writes: Attorneys are supposed to — they are ethically bound to — zealously represent their clients,…
School Daze
To really understand the mindset of educational institutions today, you have to appreciate one fact: despite nonstop rhetoric to the contrary, they are inherently conservative and risk-averse. Some might even…
UCP plan to grab CPP contributions for underperforming AIMCo would be ‘worst investment decision in Alberta’s history’
With representatives of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. scheduled to appear before the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund Committee today to explain their recent laggard performance, the NDP Opposition reminded…
The Day The Cons Officially Became The Bigot Party
When Erin O'Toole set out to try to convince Canadians into believing that his Cons were now a more "moderate" party, he knew that he first had to make them…
I have a suggestion
The Nazis called what happened at concentration camps “protective custody.” We in Canada shouldn’t use the “residential schools” fiction. We should call them what they were, which was prisons for…
Doug Ford Stands Alone.
Like his hero, Donald Trump, Ontario premier Doug Ford has few friends. He has followers, he has some like-minded associates and he has those who pander to him. He is…
Taxpayers pay for Earth’s destruction
When an industry is on a path to extinction, private investors exit and governments often step in, spending huge dollars that merely delay the inevitable. We should not allow that…
On Transgender Athletic Performance
There is an enormous amount of noise being made about the alleged advantage that transgender women have in athletics. First, let me start off by saying that the topic of…
Standard Apology form
This has always helped before. Let’s try it again.
Alberta—boom or boon?
I opened the CBC website one morning this week to be confronted with the headline “High oil prices a potential boon for beleaguered Alberta.” I mistook “boon” for “boom” and…