News Release September 22, 2022 Increase climate ambition, expand safe cycling and urban forests, prioritize health and safety for citizens: Vision’s climate plan xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa wants to change the way Netflix, Google and Facebook deal with you: A strategy in three acts #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3DOW6EG – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
I met Trevor Harrison when I was brought in to advise the Ignatieff guys, more than a decade ago. Whenever I’d see Trevor – always with his trademarked smile and…
Pierre Poilievre claims that he’s a populist. Actually, Linda McQuaig writes, he’s an anti-populist: Let’s face it: Pierre Poilievre is a dead-ringer for someone you’d meet at a private school…
“Strike, Strike, Strike.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic…
Car drivers take up way more road space than they need since the size of their vehicles are disproportionate to their usefulness. Smart countries aim to limit the number of…
I keep thinking about how a man who got 74 million votes in 2020 has now openly embraced QAnon in 2022 – and how it has elicited such little shock…
A monument in the shape of the letter “Z” is unveiled in Yekaterinburg. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. “War,” said the great Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz, “is an act of…
In writing recently about the similarities of Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump, I kept walking around the obvious. Putting a political label on either of them is difficult. The truth…
Does anyone still remember that 1997 Mel Gibson – Julia Roberts movie Conspiracy Theory? It was supposed to be just a thriller – comedy. Turns out, it was also predicting…
Is it just me, or is it kind of embarrassing to see lame-duck Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and a couple of little-known United Conservative Party MLAs from rural Alberta hanging…
Gustavo Petro addresses the UN General Assembly, September 20, 2022. Photo courtesy the UN. On the first day of the United Nations General Assembly, Colombian President Gustavo Petro made his…
A newly-formed group calling itself “Arms Around Collingwood” sent a questionnaire to candidates for this municipal election. And while I have never heard of them, they claim to have “a…
Caribbean Realm Flags Not too long ago there was somecontroversy during the Cambridge’s tourof the Caribbean, although this was reallyabout some politicians and activists tryingto shake things up. Royal tourseverywhere…
Beautiful illustration from The Globe and Mail, by Chippewa/Potawatomi artist Chief Lady Bird ? ᐅᑮᒪᑫᐧᐱᓀᐢ Inquests were just announced into the massacre of Sept. 4: BREAKING: Sask. chief coroner announces…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aria Bendix and Shannon Pettypiece report on the reality that due to a failure to contain it in its early stages, COVID-19 now…
An Israeli police officer walks next to a Jerusalem light rail car, Jerusalem. Photo courtesy WhoProfits.org. On September 15, Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the Canadian not-for-profit group Just…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Texas sheriff opens criminal probe into whether migrants were lured to Martha’s Vineyard #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3xDNsoQ – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
“People do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction.” Developing a sociological imagination is necessary so that, “By such means the personal…
