A Palace to Profit.
Driving to an appointment with my family doctor the other day, I noticed a new and very fancy building nearing completion down the road from the doctor’s office. The sign…
2023
China’s spending money to undermine Canadian democracy? If they’ll just leave us alone, we’ll take care of it ourselves!
If the People’s Republic of China is trying as hard as the Conservative Party of Canada insists it is to undermine Canadian democracy, it’s hard to understand why they’re bothering.…
A warrant for the world’s “most brazen mobster”
If there has been a knock on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it’s that it has focussed excessively on developing countries. Of the over 50 individuals the court has indicted,…
A warrant for the world’s “most brazen mobster”
If there has been a knock on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it’s that it has focussed excessively on developing countries. Of the over 50 individuals the court has indicted,…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The John Snow Project calls out the dangers of labeling COVID-19 infection as an immune-boosting mechanism, rather than an unequivocal harm to individual…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 22, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Via Rail apologizes after Muslim man told not to pray at Ottawa train station #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/40iTRSa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
To renew working class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized
CUPE school support workers on strike in Nova Scotia. Photo courtesy the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Since its initial publication in 1988, From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
Getting It Wrong
Things are not going well for Canada’s oil advocates. Max Fawcett writes: Timing, as they say, is everything. And the timing right now for opponents of the federal government’s much-maligned…
Canada may be on a path to digital totalitarianism
Photo from Unsplash Another breadcrumb has landed which suggests that Canadians may be on a path to digital authoritarianism, or even totalitarianism, if some politicians in Ottawa get their way.…
Puffinling Patrol Save Baby Puffins
In Iceland puffins get help from humans who volunteer on the Puffling Patrol to ensure that the little birds can thrive. When baby puffins, known as pufflings, hatch they usually…
Justin’s Downhill Slalom.
It isn’t the ice on the moguls that endanger our prime minister on his downhill run. It is the heat he generates among his detractors. Even the pollsters are noting…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on…
Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on…
Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman faces over 30 charges in rental fraud investigation on Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3LE5mPW – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
The lord of chaos
“We’re Number One.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Two decades ago, I sabotaged my career at the New York Times. It was a conscious choice. I had spent seven years in…
You Do NOT Roll Over For Fascists
So, on Saturday, Jen Gerson published a column in the Globe and Mail titled “The Backlash Against Drag Artists Is Unfair, But It’s No Mystery Why It’s Happening”. I read…
Why They Hate Trudeau
There are lots of Canadians who have a viscerally negative reaction to the name Trudeau — father and son. Susan Delacourt writes: Justin Trudeau has now said it twice —…