Fairy Creek: a tree planter’s account of the blockades
Members of one of the Fairy Creek blockade camps set out to deter old-growth logging in cut blocks on southern Vancouver Island. Photo courtesy of Fairy Creek blockade. In mid-August,…
April 2022
Is Del Duca Missing in Action?
I think not. After two years of hiding in the bushes, I bet Ontario liberal leader Steven Del Duca has a grand plan. There must be a scheme in place…
Today’s News: Doing the tell of history back
Artwork found here. Our daughter asked me today for a short re-cap of why Russia started this terrible war in the first place – did they really think their nation…
With Jason Kenney seemingly foundering, Alberta’s No. 2 Jason, Nixon, finds himself in the spotlight
With Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s survival in the ongoing United Conservative Party leadership review vote far from assured, the spotlight was bound to shift onto some of his more obvious…
On mere opinions
There’s been plenty of attention – and indeed enthusiasm – in response to the Saskatchewan Liberals’ petition seeking a plebiscite on a COVID inquiry. So let’s take a look at…
If you do nothing else today, watch this
Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community…in a fundraising email,…
Debunking Poilievre’s Freedom Myth
If you listen to Pierre Poilievre, the leading — and rightmost — candidate for the Conservative Party’s leadership, Canada is a dictatorship suffering under the thumb of the tyrant, Prime…
How many shirts do you really need?
While leafing through a Costco flyer recently, I spotted a great deal on t-shirts: four Bench men’s v-necks for $15.99. Such a deal! Can’t have too many shirts, right? Not…
My latest: Ford will win
Full disclosure: Doug Ford is going to win. And, before we get this little column going, further full disclosure: my firm sometimes lobbies his government, just like we did all…
Plague Update: BoJo’s Contempt For Parliament
Two years ago the UK PM Boris Johnson almost died from COVID-19. About 3 months after that, he broke his own government’s COVID-19 public safety measures and had a birthday…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Abdullah Shihipar discusses why there’s every reason to resist the pressure from self-serving politicians and business groups to succumb to COVID-19. Hannah Flynn…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 20, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay:Catholic diocese in New Jersey reaches $87.5M settlement with hundreds of sexual abuse victims #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3MmbKIz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
You can’t have it both ways—just transition requires demilitarization
An F-35A Lightning II during a flight near the Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vermont, December 9, 2021. Photo courtesy United States Air Force/Wikimedia Commons. As many others…
The Great Sidestep
For decades, successive governments have ignored the central problem at the heart of the Canadian economy. Bruce Campbell writes: In response to the brutal inequality of the 1920s and the…
Free + Dumb.
You want freedom, you’ve got freedom. It is just hardly necessary to be free and dumb at the same time. Canadians will have to stop feeling so superior to those…
Today’s News: Yes, there is still art in Ukraine. Even now. Especially now.
Picasso said “What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping…
Jason Kenney tells ‘Alberta at Work’ news conference a spectre is haunting Alberta – the spectre of public auto insurance!
Did Alberta Premier Jason Kenney just win the next Alberta election for the NDP? Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). This is a serious question, people. Responding to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Hunting cats.
Burning the Climate From Both Ends
From coal to oil to gas, our profligate use of cheap, abundant fossil energy has been instrumental in triggering the existential peril, climate breakdown, that now besets the world. It…
Hogs At the Trough or, Canada, Say What Now?
The climate emergency invites no end of finger pointing and it mainly comes down to rich countries getting the blame because, well, climate change. Overall, rich countries have enjoyed a…