Canada is earmarking billions for defence over the next five years as part of its newly announced budget. This will cause annual military spending to double by the late-2020s. Photo…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Justice Dept. Charges Russian Oligarch With Violating Sanctions #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3LMEbiI – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Here’s one thing we know for certain about this week’s federal budget. It’s going to pass. That’s a line from veteran NDP strategist Karl Belanger, and it is both (a)…
H/t Theo Moudakis I wrote recently about the large-scale bribery that Doug Ford is engaging in during the run-up to Ontario’s June 2 provincial election. Cheques in the mail, promises…
The Conservatives will attack yesterday’s budget as a big-spending plan on things we don’t need. Heather Scoffield writes that it’s not that — at all: The finance department figures we…
Ontario has bought into the federal government’s “Ten Dollars a day” daycare deal. That is what everyone calls it. And most people realize it is not going to happen overnight.…
A fascinating “history” of the Russia Ukraine War: A day by day timelapse of the approximate situation of the war in Ukraine so far. The situation at 00:00 UTC each…
This week, the campaign brain trust for Alberta’s beleaguered premier managed to find 19 old Tory MLAs willing to sign their names to an open letter begging United Conservative Party…
The depravity of Shahab and Moe is really laid bare, as Canada enters the 2nd Omicron wave in no small part to the removal of public health measures. They shamefully…
New one. I like barns. pic.twitter.com/5F38vjm9dg — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 7, 2022
German intelligence has intercepted Russian radio messages about first interrogating and then shooting Ukrainian civilians. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence service, has acquired gruesome new insights into the atrocities…
From disease-spreading fish farms to bitumen supertankers, Ottawa has done the west coast no favours. There is some good news. These damned fish farms are under attack – by sea…
It’s taken a while, and the loss of a third of journalism jobs and 451 news outlets since 2008, along with the migration of billions of advertising dollars to tech…
The UK reports that, at the end of March, one in thirteen Brits had active Covid infections. One in 13 down with Covid. At the same time, a new strain…
It started out fairly inocuously; Kid the Younger and their paramour, a few friends we haven’t seen in a while, and a few of KtY & P’s friends just hanging…
#LegalTweetoftheday: Jackson Would Become the First Black Woman on the Supreme Court #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3KotsuK – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tim Requarth writes about the U.S.’ appalling number of COVID orphans who have lost caregivers due to failures in public health policy…
“Hammer-Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Let us honor those workers who stood up to Amazon, especially Chris Smalls, described by Amazon’s chief counsel as “not smart, or articulate,” who led…
Bonnie Robichaud, union activist, public speaker, mentor, and a recognized pioneer and leader in the fight for human rights. Photo courtesy Between the Lines. The following is an excerpt from…
J.D. Vance is a graduate of Harvard Law. He is also the author of Hillbilly Elegy, an account of what it’s like to grow up poor in Appalachia. Ron Howard…
