Marco Polo’s caravan from the Catalan Atlas, 1375. Illustration by Abraham Cresques/Wikimedia Commons. It’s becoming commonplace to suggest that a multipolar world order is emerging, one that will replace the…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber report on the recognition by economists that COVID-19 continues to be a mass disabling event – even as…
CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queen’s Park to protest after the Ontario government enacted the notwithstanding clause to legislate a contract on the union. Photo courtesy CUPE.…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto ends mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for city workers #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3thKzra – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Trump lost. His name wasn’t on any ballot, true. He wasn’t in any race, agreed. This morning, he is what he was yesterday: Donald J. Trump, private citizen. But make…
The Peterborough Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Thomas Piggott, wrote, I would agree and add my voice to the numerous health system leaders who are concerned with capacity of the…
Doug Ford tried to bully one labour union into a deal. What he really did was start a fire. Heather Scoffield writes: Doug Ford has poked the bear that is…
The first rule of Covid Club is you do not talk about Covid. The second rule of Covid Club is you DO NOT talk about Covid! Third rule of Covid…
The trial is going on now in Ottawa. The judge is Justice Paul Rouleau of the Ontario Court of Appeal. Our federal government is the accused. The accusers are people…
Who knew the Brooks-Medicine Hat by-election results would turn out to be exciting? NDP candidate Gwendoline Dirk (Photo: CHAT News). Well, sort of exciting. Everyone was pretty sure Alberta Premier…
“The government blinked,” read the CBC headline. The Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce confirmed that his government will repeal Bill 28 “in its entirety.” He was referring of course…
My son Scott recently experienced a truly dreadful experience trying to fly out of Ottawa. Here’s his blog … When I was a young man, I visited a friend of…
Attentive cats.
“The Body Politic.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has…
Among my shelves of books on baking bread by hand, is a smaller selection of books about using a bread machine to craft loaves and other items. I admit I’ve…
There’s a European satellite watching for methane pollution. It spotted a big leak in Alberta. ISS has a camera called EMIT attached and it can see methane plumes on Earth.…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the looming prospect that COVID-19 infections will cause ongoing damage by exhausting people’s immunity, while Betsy Ladyzhets writes about…
I never believed that the far right trucker's occupation of Ottawa was all about vaccine mandates, or bouncy castles, or as one kooky Con called it Canada's Woodstock.And after watching…
I never believed that the far right trucker's occupation of Ottawa was all about vaccine mandates, or bouncy castles, or as one kooky Con called it Canada's Woodstock.And after watching…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Peel children’s aid officers arrested in fraud case amounting quarter of a million dollars #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3TnMu7Y – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
