Will the Trucker Terrorists Finish Off the Cons?
It was a nightmare many Canadians will never forget. The occupation of downtown Ottawa by an ugly group of far right truckers, and other Con kooks. Honking their loud air…
June 2022
Canada: Laundromat for the World’s Dirty Money
Real estate in Canada has become notorious as a means by which to launder dark money. It’s time to make it end before every Canadian will be blocked from affordable…
West at inflection point in Ukraine war
A Ukrainian soldier walks past a destroyed Russian tank north of Kharkiv, June 2020. Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine/Twitter. Henry Kissinger predicted some three weeks ago that…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 20, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump Attacks Mike Pence for Not Rejecting Electoral Votes in 2020 #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3xEHhA2 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dhruv Khullar interviews Ashish Jha about what’s to come in the COVID-19 pandemic – including the desperate need for mitigation measures to reduce…
A tightening world
Supply bottlenecks generated during the COVID slump globally have now been compounded by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, particularly in energy and food, resulting in rising inflation. Photo by Atoms/Unsplash. It’s been…
Inge Viett, 1944-2022
Several weeks ago, we learned that Inge Viett had died. She passed on May 9, at the age of 78. We offer the following notes to English-speaking readers, so that…
Kazakhstan Listens to Protestors, Moves Towards Democracy
Earlier this year the people of Kazakhstan went to the streets to protest the authoritarian government, which was met with lethal force from the government. Now, that same government is…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of June 20, 2022
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Mad As Hell
When Lyndon Johnson was asked why he didn’t fire J. Edgar Hoover, he famously replied that he wanted Hoover “inside the tent pissing out and not outside the tent pissing…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 20, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 20, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prison, no possibility of parole…
Canada’s war problem
F-35 in flight during tanker refuelling. Photo by David Drais/Lockheed Martin. The F-35 is not a tool of peace or even of military defence. It is a stealth, offensive, nuclear-weapons-capable…
Is there an App for Stupid?
It is almost impossible to believe that 90 per cent of Canadians use a smart phone. That figure must come from Bell, Rogers, Telus and Vidéotron. Those companies have been…
Today’s News: About authoritarianism
Over the last several days, I have seen a number of tweets and comments about authoritarianism as people try to understand what happened with everything from Jan 6 Insurrection to…
Transparency promised, something else delivered
This Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act proves that what happens in the BC Legislature today is theatre. Expensive theatre. We are not…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that most Canadians have far more reason to fear an austerity-fuelled recession than any foreseeable level of inflation.…
the day in oakland
On the way out of Shelter Cove, I stopped at the general store, just to see it. It is tiny. And it is the only store in town. After that,…
Poilievre’s Future
At the moment, if Pierre Polievre becomes the leader of the Conservative Party his future looks clouded. Robin Sears writes: Poilievre will likely fall victim to the torment faced by…
“Another Fine Mess!”
I like to think of the most recent election in Ontario as something like an ancient Laurel and Hardy short movie. It seems that having the liberal party leader leading…