No Future
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that expecting governments to fight COVID is yet another example of misplaced faith: When governments play with viral fires, it is ordinary citizens, including our unvaccinated children,…
2021
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of August 30, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of August 30, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
How Cities Deal with More Intense Heat Waves
Global warming is bringing more intense heat waves to our urban environments which means cities will need to adapt to the new temperatures. Indeed, regular readers will recognize a lot…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 30, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 30, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: 2 New York Judges Ordered Defendants to Get Vaccinated. Can They Do…
“Well, here’s another nice mess!”
When comedian Stan Laurel used to comment on the mess they were in, to his partner Oliver Hardy, it would draw laughter from the audience. Now that it is used…
Election Follies and Funnies #10
This may well be the weekend remembered for Jagmeet Singh losing the thread. He sent out a bizarre tweet on Saturday which lied about Trudeau profiting from billions of dollars…
Barely Three Weeks to Election Day, What Does Trudeau Need to Do to Win?
Truth is there’s not one of them I want to win. Not one of them has a compelling policy to fight our worsening climate breakdown and, yes, that goes for…
This week’s Sparky: everything’s fine
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CUPW’s difficult choice
CUPW workers picket at the Canada Post processing facility in Winnipeg, June 2, 2011. Photo by Trevor Hagan. Over the past few weeks, CUPW members across Canada and Québec have…
Winning Slowly is Losing – and We’re Winning Very, Very Slowly
Hot on the heels of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the rapidly worsening climate breakdown, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its…
Spare a thought for Jason Kenney. He’s lost a lot
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney during a news conference in Ottawa on May 2, 2019. Photo by Andrew Meade. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney can’t seem to catch a break. He just…
On history repeating
With the Libs floundering in an election campaign where they considered themselves entitled to waltz into power and the NDP making a push toward the top of the party standings,…
KINSELLACAST 174: Election week that was, with Lilley and Mraz – plus Idles, Fugazi and Day Wave
The post KINSELLACAST 174: Election week that was, with Lilley and Mraz – plus Idles, Fugazi and Day Wave first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
A Blast from the Not Too Distant Past
Tora Bora, 2001. I came across this photo of Northern Alliance fighters in 2001 watching American heavy bombers rain destruction on the hills of Tora Bora where Osama bin Laden…
What a Way to Wake Up
Covid, Kabul and Ida. It’s become a habit that every morning before I alight from bed I have my Alexa give me news summaries from CBC, NPR and BBC. Today…
Reaction: Trudeau proposes surtax on big bankS, insurance profits
It has been a relatively low key federal election campaign so far, with a surprising amount of convergence on some key issues by the major parties. As a bit of…
Ask your local candidates.
Maybe all politics is local, after all. It seems the key question for candidates in this current federal election is: When did you have your covid-19 vaccines? And be prepared…
The Conventional Wisdom Could Be Wrong
Justin Trudeau rose to power on The Politics of Hope. An old political trope is that Hope defeats Fear. But sometimes, Robin Sears writes, the politics of hope backfires: Such…
The Kinsella family wall in the County is up
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