My latest: China’s tentacles
It’s nothing new. It’s not unique. And it’s not just something that happens in federal politics. Chinese mauling of our democracy, and democratic institutions, that is. What has been reported…
May 2023
‘Justin Trudeau’s Party?’
Squeezed in between the photos from the coronation this past weekend there were a couple reports in my daily newspaper on the Ottawa meeting of the Liberal Party of Canada.…
Even more stuff Danielle Smith says: Privatize major public hospitals? Sure! Alberta’s premier has a plan
A video clip of Danielle Smith outlining how Alberta could privatize major public hospitals like the Peter Lougheed Centre, the Rockyview General Hospital, and South Health Campus appeared on social…
A good day
We met a nice fellow in Ottawa today. Impressive guy. pic.twitter.com/l4s8c7uEWj — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 10, 2023
A Quick Evolution of Masking
After my laptop died, and I found out the harddrive was corrupted, and all my pictures were lost, I started backing up my phone photos, and noticed an evolution in…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
A few last words on Gordon Lightfoot
We’re at roughly the halfway mark of the provincial election, but you’d hardly know it was happening. With wildfires chasing thousands from their homes, and the Edmonton Oilers in a…
Resignation
I’ve officially resigned as a school board trustee. As with almost all endings and beginnings, it comes with mixed feelings. As soon as I hit send on the email, I…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matthew Oliver, Mark Ungrin and Joe Vipond write about the overwhelming evidence that masks offer protection from airborne viruses – even as…
Ontario hospitals looked to make themselves ‘lean’ throughout the pandemic
Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario. Photo by Nick Matthews/Flickr. Even as hospitals across Ontario were overwhelmed by patients during the pandemic—extending wait times and triggering triage protocols—the system’s managers…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 9, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: LinkedIn Will Cut Over 700 Jobs Worldwide and Shut Its China App #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3nF2JnA – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
A Brief Programming Note
I have been a bit under the weather for the past few days, a bit of a virus that repeated testing has shown is not COVID. (Whew!) I have also…
Unhinged: Danielle Smith says vaccinated Albertans are just like the German voters who elected Hitler
In an unhinged commentary recorded by Danielle Smith on Nov. 10, 2021, the day before Remembrance Day, Alberta’s future premier compared Albertans who got vaccinated against COVID-19 with Germans who…
Electoral reform—to be or not to be?
Once again our hopes rise. Or do they? At their recent national policy convention the Liberals voted to back a citizens’ assembly on electoral reform. Specifically, the convention resolved that…
Coronation Highlights: Canada Indigenous Leadership in London
Just one additional note about the Coronation — here are some of the highlights I gathered about significant moments for Indigenous delegation members in their visit to London. In the…
Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine
Soviet-era monument in Riga, Latvia, which was splashed with the colours of the Ukraine flag the day after Russia invaded in February 2022. Photo by Kārlis Dambrāns/ Flickr. War in…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 8, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Nature Lawyers Up #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3VKbFVl – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Putting Poilievre on Pause.
There is a wonderful button on my television remote. It is a pause button. I think it would be the perfect button to use when I see clips of conservative…
Day Four on VIA Rail’s The Canadian: Onward to the Rockies
You will recall that in our last installment we were stuck for most of the day in a largely closed for the holiday Saskatoon. Thankfully, I was woken in the…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of May 8, 2023
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net