Pierre Poilievre and the Terrorist Threat
Pierre Poilievre has always been attracted to far-right extremists. There he is with Andrew Scheer greeting the United We Roll convoy back in 2019. Even though it was riddled with…
July 2022
AFN’s toxic politics hurts First Nations
Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald. Photo courtesy Kamloops This Week. How it started. One year ago, RoseAnne Archibald from Taykwa Tagamou Nation in northern Ontario made history,…
Does He Care?
CTV News reports that former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall was in contact with one of the organizers of the Truckers’ Convey: Former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall was in contact with…
This Left Me Feeling Queasy
I confess, making it to the 3:27 mark was a real effort, one fortified by a pre-dinner libation(s) last evening. However, eventually I steeled myself to watch the remaining minute,…
Flying False Flags.
There is a discomfort in seeing hockey stick-mounted maple leaf flags flying from pick-up trucks. Maybe the flags that simply say ‘F*ck Trudeau’ are a clearer message. In any case…
Today’s News: Declare victory and leave
If former Sask premier Brad Wall had ever bothered to learn French, he could have been a Conservative prime minister. He had the persona of a golden boy and the…
Earth will survive; humans may not
Ancient Chinese employed a method of prolonged torture and execution known as lingchi. We also know it as Death by a Thousand Cuts. Humans are torturing the Earth by lingchi…
Brad Wall Caught Aiding FreeDumb Racists
Bad Wall behind the #FluTruxKlan? Colour me unsurprised. He supported them when they were only known as #UnitedWeRoll.#skpoli https://t.co/vzdlAwosu5 — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) July 4, 2022 “Also it is…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that the decision to stop doing anything to limit the spread of COVID-19 is opening the door for a forever…
Ukraine’s ‘servant of the people’ is a Western fiction
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walks under a camouflage net in a trench as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, December 6, 2021. Image by manhhai/Flickr. From the…
Independence Day, freedom, the dog days of summer, and Pierre Poilievre’s profundities … plus the care and treatment of wood
“As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.” — Chauncey Gardner An Internet wit spots how Mr. Poilievre’s old…
electoral reform is way overdue (but ranked ballots won’t help)
Canada’s 2021 federal election made the case for proportional representation very plain. While Canada’s electoral system isn’t as insanely nondemocratic as the US’s winner-take-all (or “first-past-the-post”) by state, with the…
in which i remember the pitfalls of creating rules, or, painting myself into a corner (again)
In our last episode of Laura’s Reading Plan, I posted a very long list for 2022. On that 2022 reading plan post, I wrote: This year’s plan is much longer.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 4, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Texas Supreme Court Blocks Order That Allowed Abortions to Resume #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3R5jsKu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Fighting for a world beyond war
Anti-war activists protest outside of CANSEC, North America’s largest weapons fair, in Ottawa on June 1, 2022. Photo courtesy of World Beyond War. World Beyond War is a vital force…
Documents show how Ottawa intervened in Tanzania to benefit Canadian mining firms
Miners working underground at Acacia Mining’s North Mara site, Tanzania. Photo supplied by Acacia Mining. In May 2022, Ottawa-based researcher Ken Rubin obtained a collection of internal government emails detailing…
Off The Radar Screen
Michael Harris writes that The West is forgetting about Ukraine. It’s off our radar screens — a victim of our short attention spans. Consider what has happened in the United…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of July 4, 2022
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 4, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 4, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Omicron variant BA.5 is gaining ground fast in Ontario. Here’s why experts…
Calling for “Free (the) Dumb”.
We think of Canada as a free country. And it is in many ways. Yet, our Charter of Rights and Freedoms notes in its first paragraphs that our freedom is…