Emperor’s New Clothes 2.0
Paul Krugman wrote about how someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes such “a crank”: “One sad but true fact of life is that most of the time conventional wisdom…
2023
Is Brown on the In or Out?
You are never sure who is in with Ontario premier Doug Ford. Here he is breaking up the confusion over who does what for whom in Peel Region. He is…
Premier’s meeting with PM sparks petulantly hyperbolic ‘readout,’ Postmedia hysteria
Danielle Smith’s petulant afternoon “readout” from Friday’s Calgary Stampede meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests Alberta’s premier didn’t get very far trying to bully the feds into abandoning their…
Destroying eastern Ukraine to save it
Ukrainian soldiers in T80 tanks that were captured from Russians during a battle in Trostyanets in the eastern Donbas region of Bakhmut, Ukraine. Photo courtesy the Australian Defence Force/Flickr. Following…
Homicide charges for those contributing to climate change?
Canadian politicians have been spending tens of billions of public dollars to accelerate fossil fuel production. Along with oil and gas executives, they are collectively guilty of committing and plotting…
A Deal They Couldn’t Refuse
Ontario and the Feds have come to an agreement on funding the Stellantis EV battery plant in Windsor. Martin Regg Cohn writes: So why did the premier and the prime…
Could This Be You?
So, you’re at the grocery store on Saturday morning, in the check-out line, and perusing the gossipy mags and debating a chocolate bar, and the air you exhale is quietly…
Poilievre’s Problems.
Federal conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has had one objective in his life since leaving the University of Calgary. He wants to be prime minister of Canada. He seemed to be…
Canadian prime minister and Alberta premier exchange vapidities in public for 5 minutes and 10 seconds
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had a five-minute-and-10-second televised conversation of remarkable vapidity in Calgary yesterday. Why is this man smiling (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Notwithstanding the…
Musical interlude
Ten Sharp – You
Affirmative action—race or socioeconomics?
The US Supreme Court recently struck down race-based affirmative action as a basis for college admissions. Americans are now busy entertaining new ideas about how to account for historical disadvantage…
Low-impact renewables and energy efficiency = JOBS
Before British Columbia’s 2017 general election, a person who would be appointed to a senior position in John Horgan’s cabinet indicated that Site C would not be cancelled. He asked,…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 7, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: OceanGate, owner of submersible that imploded during Titanic dive, suspends operations #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/3jufj4yd – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 12, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 12, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: B.C. Court: Loss of “Promising” Law Career Assessed at $5.1 Million https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/bccourt-loss-of-promising-law-career.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Political Theatre Writ Large
For those unfamiliar with the death of Chuckles the Clown on the Mary Tyler Show, please click here. The episode ranks as one of the funniest in television history, its…
Competition Bureau study on grocery chains strengthens case for windfall tax in Canada
The Competition Bureau’s new study is just the latest in a string of evidence that corporate profiteering has cost Canadians gravely, writes D.T. Cochrane. Photo from Flickr. A recent study…
Cognitive Decline in Children
Tern highlighted a few key points from a new study in Nature about the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2. This is all from them, so I just put the parts from…
Chow’s Impossible Job.
Not being a fan of the new Toronto mayor, all I can do is commiserate with my Toronto friends. The truth is that Olivia Chow has taken on a task…