Good Businessmen?
A decade ago, the government of Ontario replaced our LCBO with a much bigger building. It does a roaring business, particularly in the summer. These days, there's a long picket…
July 2024
Canada runs on subsidies. Why shouldn’t news media get them?
Photo by Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons The recent Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism signed by right-wing think tanks, publications and journalists calling on news media to stop taking t...
Unmasking the Real Villain
The Tour de France is now mandating masks after several riders got Covid and had to leave the race. But so many other reports of people getting physically sick still…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of July 15, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 15, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 15, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud, pay $243M US fine in proposed…
Trump, Ozymandias, and the Hubris of Ambition
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in his 1817 poem, Ozymandias, the ancient king who called himself in the poem, the ” king of…
How our struggles are contained by those in power
Public servants marched around Parliament Hill as 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members went on strike, April 19, 2023. Photo by Spencer Colby/Flickr. After decades of...
That bid to create a separate Sheriffs Branch officers’ union can’t succeed without help from the UCP Government – so what’s up?
Is there more to this idea than just some disaffected Sheriffs running a wild idea up the flagpole to see who salutes?
Weekend Funny Stuff and Animal Crackers
We need a break before plunging into the fresh hell of next week. First, some funny stuff:Lenin said this, or maybe didn't say it, but in either case it's apt…
Scoring Canada environmentally
There is no issue of more importance than the environment. If we can’t learn to... The post Scoring Canada environmentally first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Donald Trump suffers assassination attempt after 9 years of promoting violence and vicious disrespect against his own political opponents including inciting the Jan 6th insurrection
Yesterday, a horrifying and terrible incident happened in Butler, Pennsylvania where a gunman shot bullets at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an outdoor political rally, grazing Trump's ear, critically…
My latest: America at war – with itself
Okay, I’ll take the wheel, here. Just for a bit. Why? Well, you guys don’t come here to get my analysis of how well the Secret Service do their job.…
A Pivotal Crossroads – Two Choices For The US Now
Cooler Heads Prevail,Or The Nation Explodes Into Civil War * Best analysis so far, on this pivotal evening, when US Presidential candidate and former President of the United States, Donald…
This is who they are
Listening to U.S. media expressing shock, and reminded of Breslin’s sad final line in his column about the shooting of Lennon 44 years ago: He “became another person who shot…
Covering Up a Pandemic
Earlier today, Salvatore Mattera wrote this piece about the media silence -- or censorship -- around Covid. Otherwise known as propaganda by omission. This rest of this post is entirely…
My latest: U. of Hate
Rats, feces, drugs and used needles. That’s the proud legacy of the “pro-Palestinian” youngsters who occupied the main entrance to McGill University for the past months. Said McGill: “The encampment…
What If The Next President Of The United States Is Not Mentally Competent For Office ?
My surprising take on that is that it won’t make much difference. Many experts are already suggesting Trump is verging on dementia and his rambling nonsense seems to confirm that.…
Letting Your Biases Get In Front Of You
Yesterday, I ran across this essay on X(itter), and it annoyed me because the author makes all kinds of errors of both fact and reason. Since things on X have…
Eating on the road: Stash Café in Montreal
Like many Canadians, my family tree is complicated so I can't claim my heritage to just one country. I was born here. My Mom was too, but her parents would…