Ridiculing Freeland’s Luxury Tax.
My old Lamborghini is just fine, thank you. It was amusing to read a conservative’s apology the other day for people who buy luxury cars. After duly noting the foolishness…
2021
Covid Journal, April 27, 2021
Doug Ford: crying to the public ain’t gonna bring about paid sick leave. Ignoring bills submitted to the Ontario partliament TWENTY ONE times won’t help either.
Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
One reason I jettisoned my affiliation with the Liberal Party was when I realized there wasn’t much liberal left in it. Nothing made this so apparent as the Liberals fulsome…
Volte-face
Years from now, after physical frailty or political transience has ensured John Horgan’s removal from the cabinet meeting room, a political opponent or a savvy journalist will definitively explain Premier…
Latest. Looking North along the trail.
Taken on one of my bike hikes.
Why Seniors Could Help The Liberals Destroy the Cons
For most of his political career Justin Trudeau's strongest supporters were young Canadians. While most older Canadians voted for the Cons. But not any longer. Now most seniors are preparing…
Bill Gates says ‘no’ to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shows a vaccine during a press conference, May 17, 2011. United Nations photo by Jean-Marc Ferré/Flickr. Bill Gates, one of…
Isn’t it Time to Cry "Uncle"? If Not Now, Then When?
I don’t believe there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of something of this enormity happening any time soon. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t. Covid-19 has brought us face first into…
We All Have Our Crosses To Bear
And for the reasonably sane in Wisconsin, that cross would be Father James Altman. The fiery, unhinged priest, as you will see, is clearly giving my usual target, crazed evangelicals,…
Pushing Back. The Greek War on Migration.
We’re entering an era of mass migration. There are several triggers – conflicts, climate change, food insecurity, alone or in combination. These migrations sometimes pit desperate people, struggling to survive,…
I See Your Red Roof and I Want to Paint it White
On solution to avoid catastrophic climate change is as easy as painting buildings. It’s known that white pain has benefits for cooling cities and on individual buildings it can reduce…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Paul Tasker reports on new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada showing how public health measures have slowed the transmission…
Talking the Growing Emotional Strain of COVID-19 on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations…
Getting Comfortable With Uncertainty
People everywhere are the same – people are people. We have far more in common than we have differences between us. And all the differences, or at least the great…
the concept of intersectionality: what it is, what it’s not, why we need it
Women Friendly Cities Challenge After the recent, horrific murders in Atlanta of eight people, six of whom were Asian or Asian-American spa workers, there was a lot of discussion online…
Irrational Decisions
We like to think that people make rational decisions. And we make predictions based on that assumption. But assuming rational human behaviour damns us. Charles Blow illustrates how recent American…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of April 26, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 26, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
The Rise of the Maverick?
Ever since Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole released his “lose, lose, lose” carbon pricing plan, I’ve been watching the overall reaction from the conservative movement writ large. Some in the grassroots…