Protecting Provincial Powers.
The other day, I mentioned that Oliver Mowat, Ontario’s premier for much of our country’s formative years back at the end of the 19th Century, fought with prime minister John…
July 2023
UCP to loosen reins on unions … charitably
Alberta’s UCP government likes to keep a tight rein on labour unions. One of the first pieces of legislation brought in after their election in 2019 was the infamous Bill…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with friends.
Protecting the protected, abusing the abused
Amanda Follett Hosgood, northern BC reporter for The Tyee, has done a thorough job of detailing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal examination of RCMP conduct after a staff member of…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Puthussery et al. study the feasibility of real-time, location-based air sampling to identify the presence of COVID-19, while Jennifer La Grassa…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 11, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada’s backlogged civil and family courts in ‘crisis,’ according to lawyers group #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4ep4vewc – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Atticus Said It Best
Interestingly, that is exactly what Marlon Brando was talking about in 1972, when he refused the Oscar for Best Actor (The Godfather). He was opposing the portrayal of Native Americans…
Snowflakes Important to Political Organizing
vote You’re likely thinking “oh no, not another political thing about snowflakes”, but I assure you this one is different. These snowflakes are conceptual and not the stereotype of a…
Crazytown
We are about to discover just how crazy Republicans in the House of Representatives are. Eugene Robinson writes: I’ll admit I was surprised when Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) got the…
AFN’s turfing of RoseAnne Archibald undermines good Indigenous governance
Former AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald. Photo from Facebook. On June 28, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) held a virtual Special Chiefs Assembly to address the findings of a…
Landlords are profiting from Canada’s rental shortage
Condo towers in downtown Toronto. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. In their corporate reports and amongst themselves, Canada’s largest landlords are remarkably honest about where their revenue comes from—from gouging and…
Intersecting Crises: The Winning Mindset
An article from a year ago came my way, about how the super-rich ‘preppers’ are planning to save themselves from the apocalypse. Douglas Rushkoff was hired by some über rich…
The High Price of Buying Jobs.
When I was working for a computer company back in the 1970s, our manufacturing manager came into my office one day with an idea. He had looked ahead at our…
Roundup: Hot and bothered
The news from all over is challenging this week. First up, I think I’m very glad I don’t live in the southern US – hotter than Hades this week. Overseas…
Stephen Harper – he haunts us still!
Stephen Harper is having a bit of a moment lately, thanks to his instantly notorious selfie last week with Hungarian neofascist Viktor Orbán, which both of them proudly tweeted about.…
Dimitri Lascaris on why we need to make peace with Russia
On Thursday, June 22, 2023, Canadian lawyer, journalist, and peace activist Dimitri Lascaris spoke in Winnipeg about his recent trip to Russia and the need for Canada to promote a…
Should We Bring Back The Lord’s Day Act
No I am not going all religious on you This would be more of a Day for Humanity, a day that would not belong to the billionaires and millionaires but…
Should We Bring Back The Lord’s Day Act
No I am not going all religious on you This would be more of a Day for Humanity, a day that would not belong to the billionaires and millionaires but…
Present view
Stick time. pic.twitter.com/9HLC3Q2mOe — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 10, 2023
Housing Shortages Being Accelerated by Our Own Cities
Cities are profiting from conversion of rental units to short-term vacation rentals. Maybe if our cities stopped this, we’d face less of a housing crisis? The post Housing Shortages Being…