You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment…
The older I get, the more I realize how little I know. And to me, that is a good thing, because there is something both grounding and humbling in realizing…
Former Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer tours the Roxham Road crossing in 2018. Photo from Flickr. Joe Biden paid an official visit to Canada in late March. While he was…
It is very rare that I read other blogs. That is not being snooty, it is practical. I would just want to correct some of the writers and commiserate with…
Among other things, Danielle Smith’s announcement yesterday afternoon of big provincial bucks for a new downtown arena for the Calgary Flames represents yet another flip-flop for Alberta’s premier. Billionaire Calgary…
No society has ever created wealth like the United States. And no other society does today. Its dynamic capitalism with freer markets and smaller welfare states than other industrial nations…
My BCGEU Vancouver Island Labour Book Club is happening! 25 people expressed interest, 18 people registered, and about 5-7 people have been attending. A few other folks are following the…
Instead of moving away from climate damaging energy sources, both Liberal and NDP governments of British Columbia have accelerated fossil fuel production through direct and indirect subsidies.
Braced cats.
We have zero years before climate and ecological breakdown, because it’s already here. We have zero years left to procrastinate. The longer we wait to act, the worse the floods,…
Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, (New York: Verso Books, 2022). By Veronica L. When I was twenty-two, my then girlfriend and I put out…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Australia’s Inquiry into Long COVID has produced a report (PDF) confirming the obvious needs both to limit the continued spread of COVID-19,…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Pharmacist ran $6.5M scheme against AstraZeneca before allegedly fleeing Canada, ruling finds #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/4468s5Z – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
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A couple of days I wrote that Tucker Carlson planned to air a program in which he advocated the invasion of Canada by the United States. Carlson’s last program was…
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board, 2019. Photo courtesy the Kremlin/Flickr. “The first casualty of war,” as the famous dictum coined by American…
It is good to see that a real grocery person is slated to take the reins at Canada’s largest chain of grocery stores. It hardly means that the time of…
Anyone who watched the head of the Alberta Energy Regulator refusing to answer questions yesterday during the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development’s hearings into Imperial Oil’s Kearl site…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Trevor Hancock discusses the need to treat the economy as a means to human well-being, rather than an end worth sacrificing our health…
Day two was a Thursday, and my first full day on The Canadian — VIA Rail’s transcontinental train from Toronto to Vancouver. It was also the morning I woke up…
