The NDP is incoherent on Gaza genocide
While criticizing the Trudeau government’s military exports to Israel, NDP leadership has largely adopted Israel’s framing of the war and condemned voices speaking out in support of Palestinians. This has…
February 2024
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 29, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 29, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Tax or Mandate? John Roberts As the Decider https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/tax-of-mandate-john-roberts-is-decider.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Homelessness in Yellowknife
Here’s a ‘top 7’ summary of my recent book chapter on homelessness in Yellowknife: Responding to homelessness in Yellowknife: Pushing the ocean back with a spoon
SFH tides again!
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Is There a Conspiracy to Break and Then Fix Health Care ?
So how would this work. I suggest first you underfund public health care as well as simply not spending budgeted funds. As the public facilities fail to meet the needs…
Is There a Conspiracy to Break and Then Fix Health Care ?
So how would this work. I suggest first you underfund public health care as well as simply not spending budgeted funds. As the public facilities fail to meet the needs…
Amazingly, there’s actually a debate within the Alberta NDP about tax policy!
OTTAWA – I suppose you could conclude that the spectacle of two leadership candidates actually arguing over tax cuts – with, shockingly, one of them not even in favour! –…
Eating on the road: Eating all the calories at Shake Shack
Right now I am am averaging about one visit to Shake Shack a year, since they are only in the United States. I went a year ago November in New…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachael Lyle-Thompson discusses how children are happier in countries with social safety nets which reduce the anxiety level around them. And Eric…
Eating off the Hill: Eating all the calories at Shahe Shack
Right now I am am averaging about one visit to Shake Shack a year, since they are only in the United States. I went a year ago November in New…
#TBT: 40+ years of politics
#TBT: when I ran for student association president at Carleton, 1983. (Our slate won. In a landslide.)
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 15, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario drivers won’t need to renew their licence plates anymore, Ford announces #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews http://tinyurl.com/yc4xtzjv – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Today’s warning: “CSIS warns that the ‘anti-gender movement’ poses a threat of ‘extreme violence’ to the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Canada”
Intelligence agency says risk will 'almost certainly continue' over the coming year"Canada's intelligence agency is warning that extremists could "inspire and encourage" serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a…
Today’s warning: “CSIS warns that the ‘anti-gender movement’ poses a threat of ‘extreme violence’ to the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Canada”
Intelligence agency says risk will 'almost certainly continue' over the coming year"Canada's intelligence agency is warning that extremists could "inspire and encourage" serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a…
Today’s warning: “CSIS warns that the ‘anti-gender movement’ poses a threat of ‘extreme violence’ to the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Canada”
Intelligence agency says risk will ‘almost certainly continue’ over the coming year “Canada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could “inspire and encourage” serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community —…
Egregious Incompetence Or Egregious Indifference?
I realize that progressives are largely loathe to criticize the Trudeau government. Given the simplistic, either-or, black-and-white thinking of much of the electorate, such criticism is fraught with peril. For…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Is a foreign Will valid in Ontario?
This can depend on the Will itself. Some factors to consider are: 1. Does the Will intend to apply to property in Ontario? 2. Can the words of the Will…
Misinformed
Danielle Smith believes that the future is in oil. Maax Fawcett writes that she is misinformed: Alberta’s UCP government may like to pretend it sees the world differently than Saudi…
Climate Projections and Anticipatory Grief
Media aren’t free to report on it honestly, and politicians won’t act on it. How can we possibly remain optimistic? Matthew Todd wrote about the possibility that the Gulf Stream…
There is no place for the Palestinians of Gaza to go
Men walk along a street ravaged by Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 9, 2024. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/Wikimedia Commons. On February 9, 2024, Israel’s…