Musings on Shakespeare’s Goodbye
Prospero’s words in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, have long been thought to have been Shakespeare’s own goodbye to the theatrical world, assuming, of course, you are reading the play or…
2021
north island life: in which we buy a generator (when in rome)
Our new friend Here on Vancouver Island, frequent power outages are a fact of life. Obviously outages happen everywhere, but when high-wind storms come ripping off the Pacific, we’re the…
Cheney’s Long Game
A civil war is being waged within the Republican Party. It appears that Liz Cheney will be a casualty of that war. But Conrad Yakabuski writes that the Cheneys settle…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of May 10, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of May 10, 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 May 10, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 10, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: CN withholding pension from gay widower over outdated definition of spouse Texas…
Bernier bros
The flag of the neo-Nazi, white supremacist Canadian Nationalist Party is raised at Maxime Bernier’s anti-lockdown rally in Saskatchewan on the weekend. Bernier and the leader of the CNP spoke…
That pessimist Hepburn.
It is not that often that I argue with Bob Hepburn of the Toronto Star. He is a very knowledgeable commentator. He gets the big bucks! It is just that…
Expansion of natural gas infrastructure and usage is incompatible…
Science says the world must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) this decade. Canadian politicians issue press releases promising that future emissions will diminish and we’ll reach net-zero by 2050.…
Police finally show signs of cracking down on open defiance of public health orders – but will it last?
Did the members of United Conservative Party Caucus all accidentally leave their earplugs in the Legislature Building in their hurry to get out of Dodge when Premier Jason Kenney ordered…
Happy Mother’s Day
To the coolest mother.
Happy Mother’s Day
I’m afraid I’ve lost it. This was going to be a cheery little non-political post wishing all the moms out there a Happy Mother’s Day…but it went sideways when I…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Zeynep Tufecki writes about the deadly delay in recognizing the reality that COVID-19 spreads largely through aerosol transmission. Elliot Hannon reports on…
Can the NDP overcome Canada’s democratic deficit?
The NDP has tried time and time again to enact the popular will in their current role in parliament, only to be slapped down by a coalition of their Liberal…
The high cost of Canadian military propaganda
Canadian Armed Forces soldiers participate in Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT in Petawawa, Ontario, September 25, 2019. Photo by Melissa Gloude, Garrison Imaging Petawawa/Flickr. Ignored in the flap over the Halifax International…
Republican Congressman – "The Ship is Sinking."
On Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Il, wasn’t pulling any punches: “Right now, it’s basically the Titanic. We’re like, you know, in this in the middle of…
Happy Mother’s Day … sorry, have I excluded you?
Happy Mother’s Day! Oh, I’m sorry. Have I offended you? Please accept my apology, especially if you are a student of Manchester University in England. Old school hot mother I…
Rusland Says “Can and Should Be Banned…”
Dear Mayor and Council: Use of commercial and residential rodent traps, baited with poisonous chemicals, in the City of Duncan and elsewhere in Cowichan — despite perhaps being deemed ‘safe’…
The Way We Were
The pandemic entente between Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau is over. Susan Delacourt writes: This back-and-forth is a sign that the 2020 entente between the Ford and Trudeau governments is…
Neither Respite, Nor Hospice.
It is called ‘Long-Term Care’ and I have never liked the words. Growing up in Toronto, the words said to me that this was warehousing for people unable to function…