My latest: profiles in cowardice
To remain human, the writer Graham Greene once said, you have to take sides. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has chosen a side: Jews, the Jewish state, Western democracy. Poilievre sometimes…
October 2024
Today’s News: Oh for f**ks sake, why would Trudeau step down NOW?
Lots of news today about how a group of unnamed Liberal back-benchers are supposedly organizing to get Trudeau to resign as party leader. Yeah, sure -- whose bright idea was…
Green Line Revisionist History: It’s Hard to Fix When Hick from Sticks Nixes Klicks of Clacks on Cowtown Tracks!
I did something old-timey with my hotel breakfast today: I read a newspaper, an actual newspaper, the Friday edition of the Calgary Sun. For a guy who got his start…
Musical interlude
Shallou feat. The Knocks - Endless
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times: a tale of one library manager on two consecutive days
This started out as a "things i heard at the library" post, but it got too complicated. Instead, it's a story about my life as the manager of a public…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Emily Atkin writes about the importance of continuing to highlight the dangers of climate change even if - and indeed because - our political…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 11, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from full FBI investigation #law #legal #legalnews via @guardian https://t.co/sKx8DIAO2z - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visi...
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Seven Years of Wise Law Blog https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/seven-years-of-wise-law-blog.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Imaginary News
We have all heard now about Fake News - see also Truthiness, Alternative Facts, and Mis-information. Now, we're hearing "imaginary news" --We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at…
Forests need protection, not exploitation
Plants, People, Planet is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly scientific journal established by The New Phytologist Foundation, a non-profit that promotes plant science. In 2022, the journal warned about the dire consequences…
Devin Dreeshen reaffirms previously unaffirmed and formerly affirmed Calgary Green Line
CALGARY – In what had to be a humiliating climbdown, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen issued a joint statement this morning with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek explaining that the Green…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- William Ripple et al. provide an update on the state of the Earth based on 2024 data, and warn that we're continuing to…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 10, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Brazil's Supreme Court allows X to resume service via #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://t.co/Nq72PSZBEk - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
UPDATED: The Grift Continues
If one can say anything even remotely positive about Trump and his team, it is that they are very resourceful. Resourceful at separating their true MAGA believers from their money,…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: How Does Marriage Affect Your Existing Will?
When a person is married in Ontario, the marriage automatically revokes a prior Last Will made by that person.The sole exception to this rule is a Last Will that is…
Interviews with Harris and Walz
Harris and Waltz are doing media all over this week (except tne New York Times and Politico, and boy are they pissed!) Anyway, here are some good clips: From Howard…
Jennifer Johnson, the deplorable poop-cookie lady, is welcomed back into the bosom of the UCP
CALGARY – If the United Conservative Party Caucus in the Alberta Legislature were cookie dough, I suppose the addition of Jennifer Johnson wouldn’t significantly change the flavour of the cookies…
Making accusations of antisemitism with hardly any facts
Pro-Palestine rally in Los Angeles, November 15, 2023. Photo by Ringo Chiu. TVOntario’s star talk show host, Steve Paikin, wrote an opinion column on the network’s website on September 23,...
Sacrificial Citizenship
A thug accosts Jack Benny. Thug: Now, come on—your money or your life. Thug: Look, bud. I said, “Your money or your life.” Jack Benny: I’m thinking it over! —The…