Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 19, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 19, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Fox News Tells Tucker Carlson to Stop Posting Videos on Twitter Supreme…
2023
Short version: the Left put up one candidate. The Right and Centre put up too many.
It’s all over, folks! “The race to become Toronto’s next mayor is frontrunner Olivia Chow’s to lose as she enters the final stretch of the campaign with a seemingly unassailable…
Do We Need This Help?
It seems every time there is someone of note jumping into this or that political race, we get the morning line in the media with the new entries. The other…
Forgiving our fathers
Forgiving Our Fathers Author: Dick Laurie, amended by Sherman Alexie How do we forgive our Fathers? Maybe in a dream Do we forgive our Fathers for leaving us too often…
Former MLA’s request for investigation of premier’s dishwashing post blown off by office of Ethics Commissioner
The office of the Alberta Legislature’s Ethics Commissioner has blown off a request by a former MLA for an investigation of what he sees as Premier Danielle Smith’s use of…
Danielle Smith Stands her Ground (or something)
Last week the Feds unveiled the Sustainable Jobs Act, Danielle Smith responded in her typical word-salad fashion and the press lauded her for standing her ground. Against what? The Feds…
Dipping Sauce Day
Where do you want to go for Father's Day, the kids asked. Swiss Chalet, I said. Swiss Chalet, they asked, incredulous. Swiss Chalet, I reaffirmed. It's my Father's Day choice!…
Alberta is missing the transition window
When Alberta’s Premier, the Hon. Danielle Smith, gave her election victory speech; she made it clear that she believed that she could protect Alberta’s Oil and Gas industry from the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez highlight how Suncor and other dirty energy giants have poured loads of windfall profits into stock buybacks…
Autistic Pride
Today is Autistic Pride Day. It’s well researched that people with autism are disproportionately 2SLGBTQIA+. A study, from the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders in 2010, studied people who…
Saskatoon Pride Parade: "Showing Our Pride!"
The Saskatoon Pride Parade was this weekend so here are some of the highlights of this positive and happy event — such an inspiring change from all of the challenging…
Bell blames the Bureaucrats.
You would think that once in a while Bell would blame their failures on their own incompetence. This is a company that bought CTV thinking it was just another way…
Shareholder value built on destruction
A whistle blows and another train rumbles through White Rock, headed toward the Roberts Bank coal export dock. This one is carrying thermal coal from Montana, bound for a massive…
Russian liberalism’s false dawn
Russian theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov. Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/TASS. Theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov likes to shock. At the end of May, he was at it again, publishing an article denouncing…
The Québec government’s push to ban lease transfers is an act of class warfare
Maison Drolet. Photo by Dimitriy Kruglyak/Flickr. Last Friday, Québec saw the tabling of the ruling CAQ’s long-awaited Bill 31, which purports to remedy the ongoing housing crisis through various minor…
Truth matters
Fiction and invention are handy tools for politicians. Legacy media often repeats lies with minimal or no fact checking, although perhaps with opposing comments added to suggest balance. That process…
A Laughing Matter
I got laughed at in the grocery store today. That hasn’t happened in a while. Cases of hospitalizations/day are at their lowest since December 2021 right now, which is fantastic,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alexander Haro reports on the scientific recognition that 2023 stands to be by far the hottest year in recorded human history (even compared…
Saturday Photo: In Case You Wondered about the Origin of the Word…
The daisies were in bloom last Sunday at Montreal’s Technoparc and along Highway 50 between Montreal and Gatineau. The English name comes from “dægesege, formerly dæges eage, meaning “day’s eye,”…