Candice Bergen and the Right-Wing Conspiracy
I thought I knew Candice Bergen. I knew she was an icy religious fanatic, a woman who hates Justin Trudeau so much she can barely contain herself. Or contain her…
February 2022
My latest: stop the media bullshit
At the risk of sounding indelicate, I had to ask: Where’s the body? It’s an awkward question, to be sure. It makes people uncomfortable, when you demand to see human…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 23, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Freeze orders on protesters’ bank accounts have been halted, Ottawa says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Romano reports on Denmark’s explosion of COVID cases after it prematurely lifted public health protections. Ariana Eunjung Cha reports on the cardiac…
When No One Has Clean Hands or How to Reap the Whirlwind
It’s one of those complex issues. Russia makes an apparent land grab in two separatist enclaves in Ukraine. Boil off all the inconvenient complexity and that’s what you’ve got. What…
Flat Earth Beliefs on the Downslope?
It’s been a while since I wrote about Flat Earthers and their inane —but laugh-aloud funny — ideas about science, religion, and politics. Their worldview is wrapped up in wacky…
The Enemy Is Disinformation
The trucks have left Ottawa, only to take up residence in VanKleek Hill and Arnprior. But the problem they represent has not been solved. Andrew Coyne writes that our real…
Canada is facing a dangerous food insecurity crisis
More than four million Canadians are currently grappling with food insecurity. Image by rasslava/iStock. In January 2020, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published the horrifying results of a survey…
Monarchist Whine.
Nothing seems to annoy monarchists more than to be ignored. They appear to be compiling a suit against Justin Trudeau. They have convinced themselves that he is ignoring the Queen’s…
The Throne Speech: Short-term objectives, privatization, boondoggles, grudges, and attacks on public health care and education
In the Westminster Parliamentary system, the Throne Speech is supposed to set out the government’s direction, goals and policy for a new session of the legislature. The one read by…
And in other news: America is furious at the Republican apologists
There used to be a quaint custom, particularly in the United States, that politics stopped at the border’s edge – in other words, foreign policy was considered a national issue,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Dozing cats.
Neo-Nazi heading back to jail
NEW: Neo-Nazi ‘Your Ward News’ publisher James Sears violated his parole. He’s back in jail until the end of his sentence. Good work, police and prosecutors and parole folks. #topoli…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 22, 2022
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Truly Vile, Truly Racist
For those who have the delusion the trucker convoy that held Ottawa hostage for three weeks was but a benign display of patriotic fervour, please explain to me how a…
Latest painting: Alberta is calling me
New one. I think I’ll keep it. pic.twitter.com/RIvApwJoeT — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 22, 2022 The post Latest painting: Alberta is calling me first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 22, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa convoy protest organizer Tamara Lich denied bail #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https:// – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – BBC reports on the justified fears of medically vulnerable people that they’re being left behind by the UK Cons’ decision to eliminate…
What, Trucker Tokers?
We’re all feeling the pinch from the breakdown of freight transport. Goods are just not getting to market as normal. Short supply, costs and prices go up. There’s a shortage…
A left-wing case against Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act
The central issue with invoking the Emergency Act is twofold: First, it is a step too far in consolidating state power against dissenting citizens. Second, police already had the tools…