The United Conservative Party leadership campaign took a dark Trumpian turn Monday when candidate Danielle Smith got a big cheer from her supporters at a rally in Airdrie for accusing…
I’ve been taking some time off to enjoy one of the finest summers I can remember, with one blue sky day after the other. I’ve enjoyed getting out on the…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Glenn McConnell reports on New Zealand’s continued leadership in acknowledging and fighting the avoidable spread of COVID-19. Arwa Mahdawi discusses why nobody…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Convoy organizer Pat King seeks bail after almost four months behind bars #law #legal #LawTwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3Ptp53G – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
A Ukrainian soldier stands near a checkpoint leading to the city of Irpin near Kyiv. Photo by Volodymyr Kutsenko. NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson’s promotion of NATO and opposition…
“Together We Are Wrong.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most…
If you want to know what the future holds, consider two words — climate change. Glen Pearson writes: With all the unprecedented challenges facing today’s world, nothing compares to the…
Twitter down? How the hell am I supposed to block anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers and Poilievre’s winged monkeys – who are all the same people, by the way – without…
Revolutionary thought of the day: Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most…
So I saw this tweet tonight: What line from a song really stuck with you? — Eric Alper ? (@ThatEricAlper) July 14, 2022 And of course I immediately got lost…
A problem faced by more than one British Columbia community is how to resurrect a local economy after global corporations decide easier profits can be made by exporting unprocessed resources.…
Mother always taught us kids not to gloat when one of our little playmates got in trouble. It is hard not to gloat though when a company such as Rogers…
Covid is a bitch. It has killed 6.4 million people worldwide to date and counting. But compared to fossil fuels, it’s a piker. According to research by Harvard and three…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – SBS News reports on the WHO’s warning that not only is the COVID-19 pandemic far from over, but cases are spiking globally. And…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Charter not violated in denying transplant to patient who refused COVID-19 vaccine, court rules #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3PqBEg4 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
There’s a call to arms on a social media from a few people who think the memoir in graphic novel form, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir pronouns), should be…
After yesterday’s hearings, it’s now clear that the January 6 Committee is focused on Donald Trump. Eugene Robinson writes: It was Donald Trump, and Donald Trump alone, who summoned and…
It’s an annual event. The provincial and territorial leaders gather to dine and feast on the supposed failures of the federal government. It is a blame game and it proves…
The Jan 6 committee held another hearing today – they’re taking aim right at Trump now, putting the “fun” in “fundamentally nuts”: As bad as we thought it was…it was…
Former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith, campaigning to replace Jason Kenney as leader of the United Conservative Party, apparently thinks we should “Uber-fy public services,” let teachers set up their…
