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.…
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…
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…
I was cleaning the bed linens this morning, which always accompanied a spraying down of the mattress with hydrogen peroxide & essential oils (no, not lavender; I don’t especially like…
#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…
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…
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?…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
Late yesterday Canada was given notice that a press conference would happen this morning hosted by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan. We were all told that the…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bryan Eneas reports on the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near a single residential school in Saskatchewan. And Samantha Beattie reports on…
