I Wish I Could Feel Upset
When your party holds just three seats in the House of Commons you don’t need a leader who sows dissension among the party rank and file. Green Party leader Annamie…
2021
Green Bolt
We’re full on into silly season in the House of Commons, which is normal for every year this time of year. But when you add COVID and a pending Fall…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Cameron MacLean reports that Manitoba is providing incentives to overcome vaccine hesitancy. But Guy Quenneville reports on the Saskatchewan Party’s refusal to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 10, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: McGahn Affirmed That Trump Tried to Oust Mueller, Transcript Shows via The New York Times Read more: http://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06102021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
My Meaning and the Parrot’s
Image: Quotes A while back I read an article titled ‘My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains‘ and commented: For me the key message of Wittgenstein’s slogan…
You Make Choices to Have a Good Life
How you think about the world around will influence what you do in the world, which in turn impacts how you react to what’s happening around you. It’s a cycle,…
Saunderson Abandons Collingwood
In his latest email to PC Party members, Brian Saunderson predictably celebrates his anti-democratic appointment as candidate without having had to actually work for it. Our much-disliked mayor was rescued…
Thought For The Day
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The Lie Goes Marching On
Barbara Comstock is an old-school Republican. In yesterday’s New York Times, she wrote that it’s time for her party to abandon Donald Trump, whom she called a “dangerous and diminished…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is the difference between a Will and a Power of Attorney? Do I need both?
A Last Will only determines what happens to your property after you have passed. A Power of Attorney is used to appoint someone to manage your property and your medical…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: book lists: travel the world by book
Book Lists: Travel the World by Book In my last column, I promised you lists of books on various topics. I’ll highlight ten books in each column. You might want…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: happy new year and happy book lists
Happy New Year and Happy Book Lists 2020 was such a difficult year. Most of us were not sorry to see it go! Your library is here for you, dreaming…
"at your library" in the north island eagle: holidays in the time of covid: let your library help (yes, that’s how long it’s been)
Oh dear, I’m way behind on posting the biweekly columns I write for the local free newspaper. I don’t imagine wmtc readers need to read these, but I like to…
Don’t Dare be Different.
You ask where bigotry and intolerance come from. It comes from being different. Does what you are wearing define you? Does your language speak for you? Does your religion demand…
Keystone XL, the pipeline that just keeps dying, officially pronounced dead
Keystone XL, the pipeline that just keeps dying over and over again, was officially pronounced dead yesterday. After TC Energy Corp. issued a statement saying it was walking away for…
Victory in PEC: the statue is gone
From the Picton Gazette: “The ‘Holding Court’ statue of Sir John A Macdonald was removed from Picton’s Main Street Tuesday morning and will be placed in storage while municipal staff…
The London Horror and the Con Hate Machine
It was an incredibly moving vigil, as thousands turned out to honour that murdered Muslim family in London, Ontario. They came together to vow that they would not let hate…
Notwithstanding This Crap
It’s been a rough three years in Ontario, and that’s before you factor in the hellish 15 months, we’ve had with the COVID pandemic. The one constant in all of…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 9, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: What to Know About Workplace Mask Rules via The New York Times Read more: http://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06092021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Fix the things you can fix
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/hate-crimes-are-rising-in-london-ont-and-have-been-for-years-1.6057815 Perhaps these issues may seem disparate to you. Perhaps you feel it is too early to focus on other issues. I personally find it very hard to compartmentalize things…