Timber harvesting in British Columbia. Photo from iStock. Two narratives about BC’s disappearing forests and logging industry have made national news over the last few months. On the one hand,…
Not knowing liberal MPP Mitzie Hunter, she has already earned my support for mayor of Toronto. Mitzie is planning to be in Hamilton for the liberal party annual convention on…
Pierre Poilievre has been crawling through the right-wing sewer from a very early age. He hung out with kooky weirdos even before he joined the bigots of the Reform Party.He…
Pierre Poilievre has been crawling through the right-wing sewer from a very early age. He hung out with kooky weirdos even before he joined the bigots of the Reform Party.He…
Pierre Poilievre has been crawling through the right-wing sewer from a very early age. He hung out with kooky weirdos even before he joined the bigots of the Reform Party.…
Pierre Poilievre has trotted out a recurrent theme in Conservative election platforms—he will “defund” the CBC. (Is “defund” a steal from woke-speak?) This is hardly surprising. The CBC is the…
A couple days ago, Martin Kulldorff, a Swedish biostatistician, was at a White House roundtable discussing Covid when he said, “We knew about since 430 BC, since the Athenian plague…
Last week, as you recall (I hope), I issued my annual deep dive into baby boy names of 2022 in Alberta. This week, let’s check out the ‘babies born as…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Stanford responds to the alt-right’s demonization of liveable communities by pointing out what a 15-minute city actually means. And Monika Korzun…
From the Book of Renovations: And lo, there will come a time of Great Home Improvement and truly, it will be a time of Wailing… The post Forty-seven signs of…
On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000 people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto condo owner shocked when hit with $27,000 insurance bill #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/41D7IEa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift to “my children”, does that include…
Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan look back over the last ten years and make the following observations: As we look back over the past decade, there are a number of…
A batch of very good substacks this week. When it comes to the news of the day, the conclusion of the Canadian columnists I read is this: 1. If China…
It was disappointing the other day to read a letter to the editor of Barrie Today from the executive director of the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition. It is very hard…
When Calgary Signal Hill Conservative MP Ron Liepert announced on social media on Feb. 17 that he is about to retire, no one seems to have thought to thank the…
The money just rolls in—$892 per second. We are wallowing in it. Alberta’s non-renewable resource revenue for the 2022/23 fiscal year is the highest in history, by far—40 percent higher…
In the United States, allegations about Russian election interference led to a three-year, multi-volume report and 37 indictments. In Canada, allegations about Chinese election interference have led to zero, zippo…
Actual provincial program spending is much less than “planned” Provincial Spending was $6.4 billion less than planned over the first 9 months of the fiscal year 2022/3 according to the…
