Time to hit the oil companies up for some clean-up money?
The oil companies are rolling in it. According to the Pembina Institute their free cash flow will add up to $153-billion this year, the highest level of profits they have…
October 2022
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Huddled cats.
Turnstile HC
@TURNSTILEHC have become a big deal. pic.twitter.com/GzwvruiP4y — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 5, 2022
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Tumilty reports on research showing how many Canadian lives may have been saved by COVID protection measures – making for a…
My latest: renounce and denounce. It’s easy.
When a bad person supports you, what should you do? Well, if you’re a normal human, you say you don’t want or need the support of the bad person, and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 4, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump sues CNN over ‘libel and slander’ claims, vows lawsuits against other outlets #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3M4pIQq – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Tax Fairness?
A recent report highlights how little Canada’s biggest corporations are paying in taxes. Fares Alghoul writes: Canada’s largest corporations are making record profits and paying income tax at record-low rates,…
Canada voices approval of IMF austerity program in Zambia
Photo by Cliff Owen/IMF/Flickr On June 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. According to the prime minister’s office, the two leaders discussed the “close…
US hedge fund bet on Canadian newspapers may be about to pay off big
The hedge fund bet on Canadian newspapers will pay off big if Ottawa passes Bill C-18, the Online News Act, writes journalism researcher and author Marc Edge. Photo from Flickr.…
Dreamed-of Day-Care.
It looks like out of all his missteps over the summer the most serious for Ontario parents was when premier Doug Ford gave the $10-A-Day Care file to MPP Stephen…
Today’s News: Playing nuclear chicken?
Well, this is terrifying, isn’t it? It sounds like Russia is getting set to try to play a game of Nuclear Chicken with Ukraine and the west: It comes as…
Jason Kenney took months to become as unpopular as he is; Danielle Smith is poised to get there overnight!
It took Premier Jason Kenney a couple of years and plenty of fallout from a deadly pandemic and a series of policy flops to become the most unpopular provincial politician…
Politics and the gender gap
What is the political contest about in this country. Conservatives vs. progressives? Conservatives vs. Liberals? Or men vs. women? A recent survey by the Angus Reid Institute suggests the latter…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ed Yong writes that the tragic legacy of the COVID-19 is one of policymakers repeating (and indeed increasing) the same mistakes at the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay:Sex workers challenging criminal laws in court, citing Charter violation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3Rxm96v – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
The insane conspiracy theorists have their candidate
@PierrePoilievre needs to renounce Jones’ endorsement immediately. Will he? #cpc #lpc #cdnpoli https://t.co/FDFH1nlfyz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 3, 2022
The March Backward
If you thought that the U.S. Supreme Court’s last session was horrific, Ruth Marcus writes that you ain’t seen nothin’ yet: Nothing in the behavior of the court’s emboldened majority…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of October 3, 2022
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Exposing the Political Manipulation by Oil & Gas Companies in Canada
The Canadian tar sands contribute little to Canada’s economy yet it’s environmental destruction is known internationally. Despite this, the Canadian commitment to killing the planet by exploiting the tar sands…
BRICS: the powerful global alliance
The current set of BRICS leaders, from left to right: Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo courtesy Palácio do Planalto/Flickr. Professor Richard Wolff informs…