My latest: treason?
Can he be charged with treason? It’s a question many are asking. It’s a fair question. Since Wednesday night, when Global News dropped a bomb on Canadian politics – that…
March 2023
Today’s News: the Han Dong accusations
Today’s biggest story was the Han Dong accusations. This is what he said yesterday to Parliament: Han Dong informs the House that he will now sit as an independent MP…
You can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied: The UCP just denied it wants to privatize health care
If it is truly an axiom of practical politics that you can you can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied, we now have confirmation Danielle Smith’s government is…
Woke is not a slur
President Biden vetoed a measure that would have blocked fiduciary retirement fund managers from considering climate change, corporate governance and other factors when making pension investments…
Here’s something you don’t see every day
Vote result: motion to concur in the 25th report of the #PROC committee was adopted. #cdnpoli Yeas: 172 Nays: 149 — In the Chamber (@HoCChamber) March 23, 2023
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dave Hansen et al. discuss the attempt in progress by publishers to attack the Internet Archive in order to restrict access to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 23, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada is raising the federal minimum wage to $16.65 next month. Here’s what that means for Ontario #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3TCyTLO – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
My latest: when in a hole
When in a hole, stop digging. That’s advice my former boss Jean Chretien used to give us. In life, as in politics, it’s good advice. The denizens of Parliament Hill…
I Demand an Inquiry on THIS
Given the range of influence being bought by international oil companies, I demand an inquiry into how they are actively working to destabilize the Canadian democratic process. The post I…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale…
Profiting From Experience
Joe Biden will arrive in Ottawa this afternoon. He and Justin Trudeau will have a lot to talk about during his short visit. Linda McQuaig hopes that Biden will offer…
Alberta’s dangerous lurch to the far-right
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right, edited by Trevor Harrison and Ricardo Acuña. At this book’s heart lies…
What does it take to ‘stabilize’ Haiti?
United Nations soldiers from the Royal 22nd Regiment of the Canadian Army during a patrol at Camp Jean-Marie Vincent, an internally displaced persons camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during Operation HAMLET,…
A Palace to Profit.
Driving to an appointment with my family doctor the other day, I noticed a new and very fancy building nearing completion down the road from the doctor’s office. The sign…
China’s spending money to undermine Canadian democracy? If they’ll just leave us alone, we’ll take care of it ourselves!
If the People’s Republic of China is trying as hard as the Conservative Party of Canada insists it is to undermine Canadian democracy, it’s hard to understand why they’re bothering.…
A warrant for the world’s “most brazen mobster”
If there has been a knock on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it’s that it has focussed excessively on developing countries. Of the over 50 individuals the court has indicted,…
A warrant for the world’s “most brazen mobster”
If there has been a knock on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it’s that it has focussed excessively on developing countries. Of the over 50 individuals the court has indicted,…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The John Snow Project calls out the dangers of labeling COVID-19 infection as an immune-boosting mechanism, rather than an unequivocal harm to individual…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 22, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Via Rail apologizes after Muslim man told not to pray at Ottawa train station #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/40iTRSa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
To renew working class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized
CUPE school support workers on strike in Nova Scotia. Photo courtesy the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Since its initial publication in 1988, From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault…