Budget ’24
Now about my tax dollars. Finance Minister Freeland tabled her 2024 budget Tuesday and, by and large, I approve. The signs are about right: the NDP non-committal and the Conservatives…
April 2024
Douglas, Lewis, Broadbent, and Layton spinning in their graves?
This item, contributed by a reader, comments upon BC Hydro now offering a ten to fifteen billion dollar commitment to private power producers. This continues Gordon Campbell’s aim of twenty…
My latest: 10 reasons to be optimistic
It’s easy to get depressed these days. Whether you are Jewish or not, we live in a depressing, difficult time. Tuesday night‘s outrage was yet more of the same: foul-mouthed…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jenna Wenkoff discusses how “ethical oil” is purely a (risible) marketing concept rather than any meaningful description of actual fossil fuel operations, while…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 17, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Proposed class-action lawsuit against Shoppers Drug Mart alleges ‘unsafe and unethical corporate practices’ #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yz84a4k3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
In The Gutter
Craig Wallace writes that you can’t run a country on outrage and insults. But that, apparently, is what Pierre Poilievre intends to do. Wallace writes: If recent polls remain the…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: 4 Things to know when making a Last Will and Testament
If you’re making the Last Will there are 4 things that you should think about. 1. Who do I want to leave my property to after I pass away? 2.…
Going professional
2008 had been a busy year for me. I wrote dozens of essays and articles, ran data for a pair of election campaigns, started my first newspaper column, became a…
Inflation? Never heard of it! Finance Minister Nate Horner weighs in on public service bargaining
To hear Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner tell it Monday, you’d almost think there’s been no inflation in Alberta since the pandemic. Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President Guy Smith…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Centrepiece cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emilia Belliveau makes the case for the fossil fuel sector to start paying for the harm it causes through carbon pollution, rather…
PLANNING FOR THE LONG TERM
I am delighted to host this guest post by Ottawa caregiver and author, Lise Cloutier-Steele. Lise is the author of There’s No Place Like Home: A guide to help caregivers…
PLANNING FOR THE LONG TERM
I am delighted to host this guest post by Ottawa caregiver and author, Lise Cloutier-Steele. Lise is the author of There’s No Place Like Home: A guide to help caregivers…
PLANNING FOR THE LONG TERM
I am delighted to host this guest post by Ottawa caregiver and author, Lise Cloutier-Steele. Lise is the author of There’s No Place Like Home: A guide to help caregivers…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFactof the Day: The Duty to Accommodate Disability in the Workplace
Every Ontario employer has a duty to accommodate an employee’s disability up to the point of undue hardship. An employee is however responsible for requesting the accommodation and providing the…
Economic inequality by design
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told that putting more wealth in the hands of the already wealthy will benefit everyone through greater economic growth, more jobs,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope call out five of the most insidious fossil fuel propaganda messages. Fiona Harvey reports on Todd Stern’s rightful…
My latest: the “grassroots” blockades
Traffic into Chicago’s O’Hare airport, one the world’s busiest: blocked. Traffic along the busy I-880 mega-highway in Oakland, California: blocked. Traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: blocked. Traffic on…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 15, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa says avoid all travel to Israel as the country braces for potential Iranian attack #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/56dhy5jp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
York eats cake while union members go hungry
Toronto Police Service cordoning off CUPE’s protest. Photo courtesy the author. For almost eight weeks, York University’s graduate teaching assistants and contract faculty have been striking for a liveable wage…