The Benefit of the Doubt Has Run Its Course
When it comes to the climate emergency, world leaders are long on promises and very short on meaningful action. There was a time when we tolerated empty promises but, now,…
2021
An Assault On The Olfactory Cells
To paraphrase a character from the play Hamlet, something is rotten in the state of Ontario. And one needn’t be a master detective to trace its source. Indeed, it is…
Water Crisis? What Crisis?
You’d think that a town with a supposed water crisis so acute it had to pass a job-killing, revenue-depleting bylaw to stop all new construction for the next two (or…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 6, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: This Black man was stopped by police for‘jaywalking’. A Human Rights Commission has called it racist — and awarded him$15,000 via The Toronto Star. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Done
My Mom says you sign it when you know you have to let it go because you have to get to the next one. So, did. pic.twitter.com/SLZP3vCgZl — Warren Kinsella…
Standing on Principle Against “The Big Lie”
It’s been a while since I spoke about the politics of our neighbours to the South, and there’s been a good reason for that. Let’s be real here, when Donald…
Communist love in the time of capitalist doom
The Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange Value Richard Gilman-Opalsky AK Press, 2020 “This book is about the communism of love. It is, in other words,…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale…
Ford’s War On Th Environment
Under the cover of the COVID emergency, Doug Ford is selling out the environment. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Under cover of COVID-19, Premier Doug Ford has been selling out the…
My morning in tweets
I love the people who yell at Dr. Fauci on Twitter, because they think he has enough free time to find their stupid tweets on Twitter — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
When every vote counts.
There are Canadians I know in the Jewish community who tend to come down hard on me if I criticize Israel. It just cannot be helped though when that country’s…
Plague Update: Cons Spin The Blame Bottle — Lands On Selves
You read this PPE shame before on my blog, but it was brought up in a mailing by local Conservative MP M. Kram. “Never-Ending Blunders – Tons of PPE from…
Jason Kenney shut down the Legislature, but debate on Alberta’s dismal COVID-19 record migrates to House of Commons
Not only is the Kenney Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic a spectacular failure, its strategy for suppressing public awareness of just how bad things have become in Alberta dramatically…
$17,297.48 For One SVJI Meeting!
John Megarry filed a Freedom of Information Act requesting the town provide the costs of having the two lawyers from the town’s inquiry legal team speak online to council for…
Reckoning with genocide and the denialism of the Canadian state
Fort Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School students. The institution was operated from 1884 to 1969 by the Roman Catholic Church. Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada. Tamara Starblanket is a…
My latest: the twisted cedar!
Latest. So, this is taken up at the very remote spot I’m buying. And this is exactly what I saw: a moss-covered cedar twisted just like this, like something you’d…
Rebooting Calgary’s downtown core
Calgary’s downtown core has long been a hive of commercial activity, a major energy centre in more ways than one. Not long ago the city had the second-highest number of…
Delivering Trees With a Side of Irony
The current Liberal government in Ottawa has made some pretty big promises during their current tenure over the past six years. Many of them have been well meaning and necessary…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 5, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Secret William Barr memo saying not to chargeTrump must be released, judge says via CNN News – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
When Both Things Are True
In normal times, this would be the period of time when we’d be reaching the end of the current minority Parliament in Ottawa. All the signs of an impending federal…