Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
March 2023
Getting It Wrong
Things are not going well for Canada’s oil advocates. Max Fawcett writes: Timing, as they say, is everything. And the timing right now for opponents of the federal government’s much-maligned…
Canada may be on a path to digital totalitarianism
Photo from Unsplash Another breadcrumb has landed which suggests that Canadians may be on a path to digital authoritarianism, or even totalitarianism, if some politicians in Ottawa get their way.…
Puffinling Patrol Save Baby Puffins
In Iceland puffins get help from humans who volunteer on the Puffling Patrol to ensure that the little birds can thrive. When baby puffins, known as pufflings, hatch they usually…
Justin’s Downhill Slalom.
It isn’t the ice on the moguls that endanger our prime minister on his downhill run. It is the heat he generates among his detractors. Even the pollsters are noting…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on…
Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on…
Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman faces over 30 charges in rental fraud investigation on Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3LE5mPW – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
The lord of chaos
“We’re Number One.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Two decades ago, I sabotaged my career at the New York Times. It was a conscious choice. I had spent seven years in…
You Do NOT Roll Over For Fascists
So, on Saturday, Jen Gerson published a column in the Globe and Mail titled “The Backlash Against Drag Artists Is Unfair, But It’s No Mystery Why It’s Happening”. I read…
Why They Hate Trudeau
There are lots of Canadians who have a viscerally negative reaction to the name Trudeau — father and son. Susan Delacourt writes: Justin Trudeau has now said it twice —…
The Never-ending Depravity of Pierre Poilievre
I always knew that Pierre Poilievre would take us to a very dark and very dirty place.I knew that he's a cold cruel Con who gets his kooky thrills by…
The Never-ending Depravity of Pierre Poilievre
I always knew that Pierre Poilievre would take us to a very dark and very dirty place.I knew that he's a cold cruel Con who gets his kooky thrills by…
The Never-ending Depravity of Pierre Poilievre
I always knew that Pierre Poilievre would take us to a very dark and very dirty place. I knew that he's a cold cruel Con who gets his kooky thrills…
The tragedy of war
Smoke from burning debris fills a cemetery in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine. Photo by Bulent Kilic. The war between Russia and Ukraine has been raging for more than a year. The…
Twenty years ago
…Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack…
Poilievre’s Patience Pales.
It looks like the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in parliament has lost it. His frustration is obvious. If he is ever going to sit in the prime minister’s…
‘Tylenot’ is here at last, premier and health minister proclaim, just in time for no one to want to buy the stuff
Ridiculed for their weirdly incompetent response to last fall’s shortage of children’s fever medication, which has ended up costing Albertans $80 million for 750,000 bottles of a non-standard product that…