#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Liberals unveil law to tackle online hate speech via The Toronto Star Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06242021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
I decided to convert a small patch of the front yard, overflowing with plantings from the previous owner of our house, into a small garden. My experiences with my gardenettes…
David Olive writes that it’s time to establish a Universal Basic Income in Canada: A UBI is a government payment that tops up family income so that it modestly exceeds…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an event before raising a pride flag on Parliament Hill to mark the start of Pride month, June 1, 2016. Photo from Twitter. Conversion…
More Favourite E-Resources, Always FREE With Your Library Card The Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) offers so many “e-resources,” it can be difficult to remember them all! That’s why I’m…
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style (Hartley & Marks Publishers, 2001) I’m neither a graphic designer…
Three Reasons to Give VIRL Virtual Programming a Try Among the many victims of the covid pandemic have been library programs. Large libraries down-island – and in towns and cities…
If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the investment belong to you? The answer…
As I mentioned here, I’m posting three of these columns each week until I’m caught up. Booklists: We Could Use a Laugh I have one last booklist for you before…
Conservatives are really doubling-down on absurdity as the last few hours of Parliament fade before the summer break. Also, as we run out of Earth-based villains, will UFOs be the…
“I can make it anywhere, New York, New York.” You can almost hear Frank Sinatra singing ‘New York, New York’ in the background. It is a last chance for ranked…
I don’t bother much with the video export out of Procreate, but this cartoon is a bit of fun to watch being drawn. Sometimes I do dive in and draw…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zania Stamataki warns that we can’t afford to treat vaccines as a magic bullet against the dangers of the coronavirus when public health…
In his new, eminently readable work, researcher and postdoctoral fellow Max Ajl systematically dismantles ruling class and ostensibly progressive visions for a Green New Deal. A People’s Green New Deal…
For most of my considerable life heatwaves were not associated with the far north. Over the past few years that has changed even to the point of wildfires spreading high…
The Prince of darkness. Thus was Dick Cheney, one of the most unpopular figures in the history of American politics, known when he was George W. Bush’s vice-president. Cheney oversaw…
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship via The New York Times Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTwet06232021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Nobody knows a lot about Martin Niemöller, probably, but they certainly know about the Lutheran pastor’s most famous statement. You know it, too. “First they came for the socialists, and…
With increasing awareness of the wrongdoing that police sometimes perpetrate, video recordings of their interactions with the public are becoming of increasing importance, both in Canada and the United States.…
As we move further along through the COVID pandemic, we’re starting to see progress. More and more Canadians are getting vaccinated, things are slowly opening up and case numbers are…
