But Were They Allowed To Sit At The Adults’ Table?
I have to admit to deep ambivalence in hearing the news that Team Trudeau jetted off to Mar a Lago to have dinner with the incoming American president. My mental…
2024
Normalizing Fascism: The Paradox of Tolerance
The Brexit campaign succeeded on a platform that cultivated anger, fear, conspiracies, and racism based on lies and disinformation. Donald Trump’s campaigns have succeeded twice on platforms that increasingly cultivated…
A Letter Shared by the Monarchist League of Canada on Practical Ways to Increase Visibility and Understanding of the Canadian Monarchy
On the 26th, the Monarchist League of Canada shared a letterfrom one of its members with practical ways the monarchycould be better highlighted to Canadians. The text of thatletter has…
Today’s news: Talking turkey about tariffs
Tonight, Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago to have dinner with Trump and talk turkey about tariffs. Now, Trump is a vain, stupid man and Trudeau is a progressive, a scholar and…
Musical interlude
Audrey Vixen - Emergency Room
The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions
Alberta is the pollution province. Despite a population of less than a third of Ontario,... The post The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions first appeared on Views from the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Joshua Pearce discusses the reality that the climate crisis could carry a ten-figure death toll over the course of this century - which would…
Talking about neoliberalism in our age of crisis with Clement Nocos of the Broadbent Institute
the podcast https://perspectivesjournal.ca/neoliberalism-undead-with-alex-himelfarb/
Electric Car Interest Is NOT Going Down
New ZEV registrations are up in every reporting province from 2023 2nd quarter to this year’s second quarter. People who say that “interest in EVs is decreasing”, are simply lying…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 29, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Canadian Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/sx3zJ34OQ7 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
And voters get what they deserve
Why do so many think democracy is eternal? Why do they think we are in an enlightened age? It isn’t. We aren’t.
From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine
In the summer of 1990, Ellen Gabriel (Katsi’tsakwas) was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during the infamous “Oka Crisis,”…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from January 23, 2008
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from January 23, 2008 via Wise Law Blog: “Wrongful Life” versus “No Life” - Court of Appeal overturns Wrongful Life Decision https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/wrongful-life-versus-no-life-court-of_23.html - Gar...
At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him?
At the risk of sounding like Jason Kenney, where’s John A. Macdonald when we need him? I speak, of course, not of the policies that gave rise to the tragic…
Today in The Stupid: Canada v. Trump
Canada got to see its premiers in action yesterday, facing the first of the many existential crises that will define the Trump Administration, and it wasn't a pretty sight. Dale…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 28, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: A social media ban for under-16s passes the Australian Senate and will soon be a world-first law #law #legal #legalnews via @APNews https://t.co/x8BBAyL258 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Carbon Brief examines the results of the COP29 climate summit - with the main takeaway being a familiar combination of barely-existent commitments and…
Safer supply is under attack when we need it most
Cubicles at a supervised injection site in Strasbourg. Photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia Commons. Across the street from a ceramics studio on Dundas Street in London, Ontario there’s...
A Novel Suggestion
In my more fantasy-laden moments, I imagine a response from Canada to Trump's tariff threats that would really get through to the Americans. Since appeasement never works, how about meeting…