Why Is The SaskParty Lying About Well Cleanups?
Here’s the scale of the problem: "Remediation of thousands of orphaned oil&gas wells and the eventual “clean-up” of the oilsands mines& tailings ponds -estimated by the Alberta Energy Regulator to…
July 2021
Are We Setting Ourselves Up For Another Covid Fail?
Canada, the United States, Great Britain, we’re all chomping at the bit to loosen the bonds of this cursed pandemic, to get out and party. Who among us isn’t craving…
A Nation Enslaved By Its Own Myths
One of my favourite essayists is Andrew Bacevich. He graduated West Point just in time to lead men in battle in Viet Nam. In the intervening years he rose to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dirk Richter and Lucy Foulkes point out how any mental health concerns arising out of public health rules would pale in comparison to…
Sixty Years of Warnings Ignored and We’re Still Looking the Other Way.
It was sixty years ago that our political caste was warned that an era of weird weather was upon us. Excerpts from a Guardian ‘Long Read.’ In August 1974, the…
Talking the Potential Fall Federal Election with Rob Snow
On Wednesday I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Jason Lietaer for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the current state of the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 5, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay:Boy Scouts of America reaches $850 million settlement with sexual abuse victims via CNN Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06052021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Orange crushed?
If O’Toole isn’t a factor for Trudeau by now, he won’t be by writ drop. The wild card is Singh: he’s doing well, so’s his party, and the Green option…
Talking About a Different Canada Day 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 this years Canada Day, how it felt…
Transparency is voided when police weaponize copyrighted music
A California police officer played Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” in an attempt to prevent a Black Lives Matter activist from uploading a video to YouTube. Image courtesy the Anti-Police Terror…
A Shrinking Choir
Recently, Erin O’Toole railed against those communities which canceled Canada Day celebrations. Paul Willcocks writes: O’Toole delivered a video speech last week to the party’s MPs, complaining about communities that…
How Dar Jacir Supports Artists in Exposing Colonialism
In Bethlehem a group of artists founded an organization, Dar Jacir, which set out to support artists in Palestine and beyond. Dar Jacir is a an art and research centre…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of July 5, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of July 5, 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 July 5, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 5, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Her employer owes her $28,000. She’s waited for a year and a…
Singh’s Success in Social Media.
Has nobody told NDP federal leader Jagmeet Singh that the TikTok program on the Internet is for children? About a third of the world-wide users are not old enough to…
There’s schadenfreude and irony aplenty in UCP outrage at anti-vaxxers’ Canada Day invective in Calgary
Most reasonable people would agree that getting up close and personal while shouting at a politician enjoying the sunshine with their spouse and young children on a national holiday is…
Half a billion dollars gets you what you’ve got
A majority is what Trudeau wants, but a majority is what he has effectively had during the pandemic. That truism testifies to both the irrelevance and waste that is the…
This week’s Sparky: election? What election?
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KINSELLACAST 166: ME AND ADLER – PLUS THE BRONX, TURNSTILE & STRIKE ANYWHERE
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Statues, churches, vandalism, and the nationalist and colonial tales we like to call ‘history’
A statue of Queen Victoria was toppled in front of the Manitoba legislature amid growing outrage over the discovery of unmarked graves belonging to Indigenous children, Winnipeg, July 1, 2021.…