Canada vs. Mexico: We may have outsmarted ourselves
Good morning from Edmonton! We’re experiencing our first major snowfall of the season. Driving is terrible. The wind is blowing up to 40 km/h. It’s not a fit day or…
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Legal Tweet of the Day: November 16, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Europe turns the screws on the unvaccinated as Covid cases climb via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto writes about the need for governments to make COVID management plans which take into account pockets of anti-vaxxers who will…
Bernier v. Kinsella: our win has been reported in the law books!
Right here! The post Bernier v. Kinsella: our win has been reported in the law books! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
The Road To Serfdom
Republicans in the United States have no clothes. They stand naked with no pretenses left. Eugene Robinson writes: We are bombarded daily with heavy-lies-the-crown tales of woe about President Biden,…
Change Your Bank to Slow Climate Change
money Is your money being used by your bank to make your life worse? Hopefully not! A bank I used to do business with was literally funding the tar sands…
Prognostications On The War In The UCP
The UCP in Alberta is at war with itself, and the war has broken into the open just before their Annual General Meeting (AGM). What’s the fight over? No less…
The Pit Bull from Calgary is Back.
If you can visualize a smarmy pit bull, you can probably visualize Pierre Poilievre MP. And if you didn’t like him the first time you saw him in Canada’s parliament,…
Do You Think We Should Tell Him? Climate Change is Real. It’s Now.
Maybe it’s time the Dauphin stopped screwing around with pipelines the world doesn’t need and put that money to better use, such as getting Canada ready for climate change. This…
the woodshed 2021-11-16 02:31:00
TweetI’m watching Casablanca for the evlentry-seventh time and I’m reminded of the profondund conversation I had with my unilingual Japanese father-in-law in which we agreed that Ingrid Bergman in 1942…
Alberta signs on to federal child care deal its premier once mocked as ‘9-to-5, urban, government and union-run institutional daycare’
Premier Jason Kenney didn’t look all that cheerful at yesterday’s announcement Alberta had finally signed on to participate in the Trudeau Government’s national $10-a-day-child-care program. While the premier fidgeted in…
the woodshed 2021-11-16 01:18:00
TweetI’ve been laid up with an eye injury for a few days and this has been stuck in my head. I’m not sure which version is better. But it is…
Cowichan Valley declares state of local emergency, Nanaimo issues evacuation orders due to floods
Cowichan Valley declares state of local emergency, Nanaimo issues evacuation orders due to floods November 15, 2021 UPDATED EMCON SERVICES BC Highway 1 at Mount Sicker Road north of Duncan…
When Caregiving Calls – A New Guide for Care
Today it is my pleasure to introduce the very wise caregiving expert and author, Dr. Aaron Blight. I can’t remember exactly where or when I first met Aaron online, but…
The Glasgow Summit and the Triumph of Hope
I've landed in Glasgow, the old city by the river Clyde, many many times. But I usually never stay long. After an hour or two I'm usually on a train…
The United States has an unhealthy obsession with Cuba
Illustration by Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff/Instagram. The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $6,669,000 in grants for projects…
Unflappable No More
As the world continues its devolution, it becomes clear that few things can be taken for granted anymore. One of the casualties of the times is the erstwhile British unflappability,…
Canada’s "Winter of Political Discontent."
Even though the Trudeau Liberals eked out a win in the last general election, it was pretty thin gruel. Pollster Nik Nanos writes that, if anything, it was a vote…
The Last Progressive
Historian Andrew Bacevich sees Joe Biden as a progressive successor to Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Lydon Johnson. He also sees Biden as the president who…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 15, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Man Pardoned After Spending 24 Years in Prison for Murder via @nytimes – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net