Sharing Incompetencies
I was talking to my good friend Dave, from Winnipeg, the other night. Dave and I have been friends for 40 years. The affinities that bind us include books, movies…
April 2023
The First Casualty
From the beginning of his tenure, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has gone to war with the media. He took his cue from his predecessor, Andrew Scheer. Max Fawcett writes: Former…
Got an Extra $100K?
The good news is that for that $100,000 you can run for the leadership of the Ontario liberals. There is another $25,000 that is refundable but I am not sure…
NDP’s Rachel Notley targets radical Take Back Alberta group taking over the United Conservative Party
It’s hard to imagine David Parker, founder and de facto leader of the Take Back Alberta political action committee, was very happy to hear Opposition Leader Rachel Notley signal clearly…
Renovictions are fuelling Toronto’s housing crisis
Renoviction is a landlord strategy designed to permanently displace tenants from their homes by claiming that empty units will undergo renovations. Photo by sonicgregu/Flickr. Renoviction is a much-discussed but poorly…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jia Li et al. study the causal associations between COVID-19 and numerous types of cancer – finding generally that COVID is associated with…
RBC, The Tar Sands & Externalities
We learn that the Tar Sands tailings pits will dump TRILLIONS of litres of waste into the Athabaska and other rivers. This has to stop. The post RBC, The Tar…
Plague Update: If We Don’t Report It, It Doesn’t Exist
There's a clear reason this happened, and satirists around the world are noting it.https://t.co/QKs3LPOsXR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 17, 2023 On the eve of this Roughriders season, it's…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 17, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canadian coroners starting to reject excited delirium as cause of police-related deaths #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3KHePE0 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Ideological Soulmates
Well, it appears Pierre Poilievre, that would-be master disinformation-trafficker, has found his true soulmate in another man-child, Elon Musk. They have had a meeting of the minds when it comes…
Government-funded™️
Since every single one of us have received unemployment support, or Medicare, or a government cheque for something or the other, I propose that @elonmusk affix "government funded"' to every…
Trump In The Great White North
When Trump flags showed up as part of the Truckers’ Convoy in Ottawa, it was clear that the American Disease had drifted across our border. Michael Harris writes that Donald…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 17, 2023
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Coal Continues Collapse
One of the worst ways to generate electricity is to burn coal to heat water to spin turbines, the only reason this power generation exists is due to the cheap…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 17, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 17, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Fox News reaches settlement with Venezuelan businessman in election defamation case Ontario…
Preaching to the Con converted
I get that he's playing to his base, who mostly hate CBC. What I don't get is why he's not doing more to reach outside his base. Anyone? #cdnpoli #cpc…
The Cowbird’s Quest.
The ornithologist might study some strange birds in a lifetime, but there are also some strange birds in politics. There is that breed of cowbird, for example, that prefers to…
My first day on VIA Rail’s The Canadian: Toronto to Capreol, Ontario
VIA Rail’s cross country “The Canadian” — four-and-a-half days across Canada from Toronto to Vancouver — is something that has been on my bucket list for years. I set it…