Getting past the tax cut spin
Manitoba New Democrats have bought into the regressive thinking that the solution to the rising cost of living is to cut taxes, argues former NDP MLA Marianne Cerilli. Photo by…
2024
Planned provincial police to be called Alberta Rangers? Brace yourselves for more Conservative cowboy cosplay!
Did a little birdie just chirp in my ear that the United Conservative Government has already picked out a name for the new provincial police force it claims it hasn’t…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 18, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: CRA paid out $37M to tax scammers, unsealed affidavit alleges #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/bdhk5fbf – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Perhaps They’ll Ease Their Pain With A Free Cup Of Coffee?
Well, Tim Horton’s has done it again – disappointed their customers. Of course, that’s nothing new, but I’m not referring here to the mediocre coffee that is inexplicably a national…
Could co-op news help save Canada’s media?
Alt-weeklies have fallen on hard times recently with the flight of advertising to social media, but Prairie Dog and its Saskatoon sister newspaper Planet S have endured through ingenuity and…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: How important is it to have a Last Will if you are in your 30s?
Having a Last Will is still important, even if you are young. There is no better way to provide for your family and your future. You can create a Last…
All the perfumes of Arabia
Lavender fields near Hitchin, England. Photo by DeFacto/Wikimedia Commons. “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth,…
"Protect the rich" is NOT going to catch on
Yeah, lots of financial press whining in the last 2 weeks about how raising taxes on the rich or on corporations would be so unfair & so awful -- but…
"Protect the rich" is NOT going to catch on
Yeah, lots of financial press whining in the last 2 weeks about how raising taxes on the rich or on corporations would be so unfair & so awful — but…
Manufactured ignorance
Many readers of IN-SIGHTS examine public issues with great care and email private comments to me along with links to worthwhile material. What follows comes from a paper sent to…
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…
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…