It’s Getting Ugly
Pierre Poilievre thought he had marked out a path to victory. Max Fawcett writes: From the moment he announced his bid for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada last…
February 2023
Local Lies.
Writing about American right-wing crazies the other day was not to ignore such dumbasses on our own doorstep. And the people generating false news in Canada are just as guilty…
Today’s News: Ukraine Strong
A year ago, Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. A year later, Ukraine still stands. There is lots of commentary today about how Ukraine did this — Zelenskyy’s brilliant…
Like the proverbial bad penny, Raj Sherman keeps turning up – this time as UCP candidate in Edmonton-Whitemud
Just like the proverbial bad penny, Raj Sherman always turns up. Dr. Sherman in 2011 during his tenure as as Alberta Liberal leader, trying to make a very small crowd…
Top 10 Films of 2022
February, I suppose, is a bit late for a “Best of the Year” list. Getting through every single must-see movie in a timely fashion is no small task. Indeed, there…
Musical interlude
Gorgon City, DRAMA – Nobody
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Eric Anderson writes that capitalism has been developed to exploit psychological vulnerability for profit. And Ludvig Weir and Gabriel Zucman highlight how the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 24, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Harvey Weinstein gets 16-year sentence for rape, sexual assault in Los Angeles trial #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3EB3GT2 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Genuflecting At The Altar Of Corporate Giants
For the longest time, I have been pondering the timidity of successive governments to be on anything but the good side of the corporate titans who walk among us. Certainly,…
Caregiver Recipe Exchange!
I love food and I love to cook. But like any other caregiver, I often have no time to make something healthy and delicious, so that's when I turn to…
My latest: Conservative MPs should be condemned for meeting with extremist
Governments defeat themselves. But opposition parties can defeat themselves too. And, this past week, the Conservative Party of Canada was busily doing just that. Three well-known Conservative MPs — one…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 31, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 31, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Mitigating Damages By Staying With The Same Employer http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/08/ontario-employment-law-mitigating.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
One Year Ago
Some people admire Vladimir Putin for what they believe is his manliness. Such was the case a year ago. Paul Krugman writes: Putin was their idea of what a powerful…
Caregiver Recipe Exchange!
I love food and I love to cook. But like any other caregiver, I often have no time to make something healthy and delicious, so that’s when I turn to…
Russia-Ukraine: the economics of one year of war
Illustration by Ziniu Chen. Photo courtesy the US Department of State. It’s just a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am not going to discuss the politics of…
Don’t despair: the world order is changing, but it is not collapsing
A destroyed Russian T-90A tank in Ukraine, March 3, 2022. Photo from Flickr. As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, it is hard not to be pessimistic about…
CPC MPs and German neo-Nazi party
German MEP Christine Anderson of the far-right Alternative for Germany party meets with three Conservative Party MPs – and also with the neo-Nazi group Diagolon. Wow. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/IQyfoA89zA — Warren…
The Science of Lies.
Newton’s Third Law says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It seems that the lunatic fringe of Donald Trump’s America denies that law. The extremists…
AG on AB continuing care COVID response: lack of preparation, not enough staff, outdated infrastructure
It’s not exactly news that Alberta needs a staffing strategy for continuing care homes to prevent worker burnout and the kind of deaths seen the early days of the COVID-19…
Marooned in Anomie
Jon Mooallem wrote a poignant piece in the New York Times yesterday about a project that’s been recording people’s experience with the pandemic since March 2020 over individual Zoom calls.…