Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Centre of attention cats.
September 2022
Can Pierre Poilievre Control His Convoy Crazies?
I can only imagine how pleased Pierre Poilievre must have been, to be the first Con to welcome the far-right truckers to Ottawa. He cheered their arrival, he defended their…
Theory and homelessness
I’m writing an open access e-textbook on homelessness. Chapter 2, focused on theory, has just been published. The full chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Falvo-Chapter-2-Theory-and-homelessness-19aug2022.pdf A ‘top 10’ overview of the…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur laments the message being sent by Ontario’s government that there’s no need to care about other people in the face…
A perfect storm of the apocalypse
Image by Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock “There is a tide in the affairs of men.” -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Not only is there a tide in human affairs, but there is actual…
Should We Prune Vancouver’s Park Board?
Some see it as a way to pursue ‘innovative’ governance practices. Others say it’s a ‘democratic vestigial tail.’Christopher Cheung 6 Sep 2022 TheTyee.caThere’s a unique kind of politics that exists…
Should We Prune Vancouver’s Park Board?
Some see it as a way to pursue ‘innovative’ governance practices. Others say it’s a ‘democratic vestigial tail.’Christopher Cheung 6 Sep 2022 TheTyee.caThere’s a unique kind of politics that exists…
Should We Prune Vancouver’s Park Board?
Some see it as a way to pursue ‘innovative’ governance practices. Others say it’s a ‘democratic vestigial tail.’ Christopher Cheung 6 Sep 2022 TheTyee.ca There’s a unique kind of politics…
Dear Maxine Bernier, Mark Bourrie and Andre Marin
This is your periodic reminder that we not only defeated Maxime Bernier and his lawyers Andre Marin and Mark Bourrie in court – but also this: Bernier was forced to…
The world’s climate plan: make targets, miss targets, repeat, die
Millions of people have been affected by extraordinary weather events in 2022. The effects of climate change are compounding, but political leaders and industrialists use misinformation and outright lies to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 6, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: New CNE agreement needed ahead of next year’s event #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3RHdpeM – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
No Place
Traditional conservatives no longer have a place in the world — because conservatives can no longer get along with each other. Glen Pearson writes: Ronald Brownstein, senior editor of The…
Another Urban Myth Busted
Road users always complain that other people are breaking the law, every group of road users accuess another of breaking the most traffic rules. Truckers think cars are the worst,…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 6, 2022
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Where Things Stand
Hello there everyone, it’s been a while…. Since March 25th to be precise, but yes, a while. I’ve taken some downtime from this space over the past few months, to…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 6, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 6, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘I was made out to be a monster’: With her conviction for…
Today’s News: Continuing the story
The news is fast and furious today as the story about the mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation and the town of Weldon continues to be the most important…
Trudeau’s Choice.
It looks like the churn is working but that is hardly butter we are getting. There is a demand for change in Canada and it need not be change for…
NDP Leader Rachel Notley vows to reverse UCP policies that reduced worker overtime and the youth minimum wage
Opposition Leader Rachel Notley vowed yesterday to reverse two United Conservative Party policies that reduced overtime payments for many working Albertans and lowered minimum wages for young people if the…
COVID-19 — panic, then neglect and harm
BC Government’s COVID panic began in March 2020, but was turning to neglect in the following year. It can be argued that neglect shifted to overtly harmful management of the…