Supporters of education workers demonstrate in Toronto, November 1, 2022. Photo courtesy CUPE Ontario/Twitter. It has been whirlwind week for labour in Ontario. On November 2, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government…
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks at the national congress of the PT party in 2017. Photo by Lula Marques/Agência PT. President Joe Biden kept a promise to Luiz Inácio…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan writes that in the face of an impending self-inflicted recession, governments should be using their available resources (and taxing the…
Photo by Tania Liu/Flickr In what now seems like a distant memory, the early stages of the pandemic gave rise to a host of hopeful prognostications about the urgency of…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King, lawyer to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3SWoicM – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
The Roman Shukhevych statue at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in Edmonton. Photo courtesy CTV News. Last year, a statue in Edmonton honouring Roman Shukhevych, a Nazi collaborator and a…
Pierre Poilievre is a one-trick pony. His message is simple and he repeats it constantly. Taxes — all taxes — are bad. Chief among the taxes Poilievre wants to eliminate…
Our Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre (Pee-Pee) has vanished. Our new leader of Canada’s conservatives is among the missing. After all the hoopla around his winning the leadership, you would think…
Now that the national inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act has turned its spotlight on the organizers of last February’s occupation of Ottawa and various border blockades, and…
Xi Jinping has it all: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission, commander-in-chief of the People’s Liberation Army, and the Politburo Standing Committee filled…
Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Flickr “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” British Foreign Secretary Sir…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘One-of-a-kind’ law clinic in Windsor awarded $3.1 million #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3h5FcZe – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
The older I get, the less satisfied I am with life. Probably because I have a lifetime of context, events bother me a lot more now than they did earlier…
It looks, Michael Harris writes, that Americans are poised to begin a forced march toward fascism: The way most pollsters and pundits see it, the Republicans are poised to evict…
Happiness isn’t the goal of life, but it sure is important. If you’re not feeling happy it isn’t because you don’t have enough stuff or not watching enough TV. According…
A peoples’ parliament is an ideal for Canada but reality is that we have an elitist prime minister, a manipulative leader of the opposition and a few other struggling parties.…
Elon Musk – he will be the gift that keeps on giving, at least until he has bashed Twitter into the ground: The funniest thing about this is that Elon…
The Conservative movement’s vast army of online trolls has been strangely silent about the right of poorly paid Ontario education workers to negotiate a decent salary for themselves. Ontario Premier…
I invite readers to look beyond a comparison of the noted energy projects to consider the long term objectives of two publicly owned energy companies. BC Hydro is focused on…
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