Where’s Waldo?
Where’s Waldo Justin? When a natural disaster occurs we’ve come to expect our political leaders to show up to inspect the carnage and assure the locals that help is on…
2021
It’s Time to Destroy Highways to Build Cities
People make cities an interesting place to be. It’s the people that produce culture and economic prosperity, yet many cities have highways going right through them. These highways make the…
Unnecssary But Useful
We are having an election because Justin Trudeau wants a majority government — and he thinks he can get one. Certainly, the turmoil in the Conservative Party could work in…
Reimagining the left in times of crisis
Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination Edited by Robert Latham, A. T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen and Niko Block Fernwood, 2020 It is a commonplace on the…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of August 16, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of August 16, 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 August 16, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 16, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Police want to speak with disgruntled client after NYC divorce lawyer is…
BC’s GHG emissions worse than we’ve been told
Governments of Canada and three western provinces are committed to increasing fossil fuel production, despite science that says we must begin to reduce GHG emissions immediately. Canada’s Industrial and political…
The Book is Open.
It is too bad that when individual sports betting is to be allowed in Ontario, I cannot run a legal book on the federal election. I could make a potful…
Pandemic election an outrage: Alberta Conservatives. Pandemic over, we’re open for good: Also Alberta Conservatives
It’s an outrage, practically a crime against humanity, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call a federal election in the midst of a global pandemic, Alberta’s Conservatives say. The pandemic…
"THIS time it will be different!"
In my 70+ years watching American foreign policy, the one statement I keep hearing is “THIS time it will be different!” — Cathie from Canada ?? ??️? (@CathieCanada) August 15,…
Voting strategically in an election we don’t need
So we are to have an unnecessary election. Didn’t we make our views clear enough in 2019? We didn’t give one of the parties a majority because we didn’t buy…
Saturday Photo: Batture or a Walk on the Tamed Side
Spent a great few days in the Lower St. Laurent, including walks on the batture, the dikes constructed to keep back the tides and make the Kamouraska lowlands ready for…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Doug Cuthand calls out the Kenney and Moe governments for prematurely and irresponsibly declaring victory over COVID rather than paying any attention…
Relentless
The Libs’ choice of themes to start off a needless federal election campaign is telling mostly in the contast it presents between their self-image, and the obvious realities facing people…
Untangling Sex
The discourse around transgender people often breaks into two sides screaming at each other, one arguing that 'gender is a social construct', and the other stamping their feet and yelling…
And We’re Off!
Well folks, it’s now official and let’s put aside any of the pretense about it; Canada’s 44th General Election is on! #BREAKING: After months of speculation, the 2021 Canadian federal…
KINSELLACAST 172: the “why are we having an election” show
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My take on Day One in tweets
He talks to people like they’re children. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 15, 2021 Many minutes in. Still no explanation for calling an unnecessary election during a surge in…
The blog awakens for Federal Election 2021
Hello folks: Miss me? (Don’t answer that ) Seeing as we’re about to head into a Federal Election set for Sept 20, I thought it time to shake off the…
The blog awakens for Federal Election 2021
Hello folks: Miss me? (Don’t answer that ) Seeing as we’re about to head into a Federal Election set for Sept 20, I thought it time to shake off the…