Even Worse
The Canadian Press reports that Pierre Poilievre is selling conspiracy theories: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting the summer barbecue circuit with ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that the…
2023
Ford’s Fall Guy.
It does seem strange that Ontario municipal affairs and housing minister Steve Clark’s chief of staff Ryan Amato is currently reported to be vacationing in Italy. He might have a…
The Enchanted Couple and the Ugly Cons
I wasn't going to write anything about Justin and Sophie's sad separation. But as summer slowly changes to fall, I changed my mind. I wanted to thank them for representing…
The Enchanted Couple and the Ugly Cons
I wasn't going to write anything about Justin and Sophie's sad separation. But as summer slowly changes to fall, I changed my mind. I wanted to thank them for representing…
The Enchanted Couple and the Ugly Cons
I wasn't going to write anything about Justin and Sophie's sad separation. But as summer slowly changes to fall, I changed my mind. I wanted to thank them for representing…
A Time Of Reckoning
Most have probably heard about or seen the video of the violent confrontation occurring in Montgomery, Alabama the other day. A riverboat was unable to dock because a group of…
Open Letter from OSS
Ontario School Safety crafted an open letter to the government to aim to improve air quality in schools. Here it is in full: Ontario School Safety 6D-7398 Yonge S Thornhill,…
The Good Guys are Going.
Canada lost both a staunch liberal and a much-loved conservative in the past week. It is a rare situation when we wonder at how difficult it will be to replace…
Weekend stuff: Craig Baird history and Tevye stories and funny posts and animal crackers
Here’s someone every Canadian should be following — Canadian historian Craig Baird’s X (twitter) feed (and the dogs in parliament AI photo above is from Craig’s post here) Today in…
Musical interlude
Metric – Speed the Collapse
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rachel DuRose writes about the rise of the Eris COVID-19 variant, while Esther Choo notes that health care workers are bracing for another…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 11, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: No joke: Satirical websites get caught up in Meta’s quest to block news in Canada #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/ycxztyys – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Gabba gabba birthday!
BEST BIRTHDAY WISHES EVER #gabbagabbahey https://t.co/Bdrnp05bQt — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 11, 2023
Friday’s tonic: “Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scheme betrayed the public — and he should pay dearly for that”
The buck stops with nobody! The Ontario premier who came to power alleging corruption by a previous Liberal government now presides over a corrupted political process of his own making,…
Hoping Against Hope
If you are part of the Doug Ford cabal, you must certainly and ardently hope the above is true. If it isn’t, you may intuit that you are in big…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from October 29, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from October 29, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Family Law: Court of Appeal Rules Superior Court Judges May Request, But Not Order, Children’s Lawyer…
What if We All Masked Just for One Month??
A virus needs a host in order to exist for more than a couple hours. It needs us in order to grow and mutate. If we stop hosting this unwanted…
“Here’s Another Nice Mess.”
You hardly expect the conservatives at Queen’s Park in Toronto to go after their own government but premier Doug Ford will be hard pressed on this goof. It is right…
With freeze on renewables and vow to ignore federal net-zero rules, Alberta’s on its way to being a three-alarm international dumpster fire!
Whether or not Premier Danielle Smith and her enabler and office manager Rob Anderson carefully planned their freeze on renewable electricity generation last week or just came up with it…
Pause Conservative Governments Until We Can Figure Out What’s Going On
Smith on net-zero from 1½ years ago: Innovators can do net-zero!Politicians are too polarizing!Kenney spent too much time fighting the carbon tax! They don't understand how much the industry is…