My latest: rallies, polls, debates and more
Pierre Poilievre is winning with his rallies. Mark Carney is winning with the pollsters. What’s really happening? Well, Greg Lyle is an old friend. He has a poll out with…
April 2025
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Greg Sargent writes about Barack Obama's message that Donald Trump's contempt for democracy and damage to people's livelihoods are fundamentally intertwined. Deborah Frances-White discusses…
A Propagandist’s Dream
It is said that nature abhors a vacuum, meaning that empty spaces are quickly filled. It appears that in the world of international politics, the same is true. Given the…
Today’s News – Teflon Carney; Collapsing America; Trump’s Shame
Teflon Carney - they keep throwing stuff at him but it just doesn't stick One of the most impressive attributes that Mark Carney brings to Canada is respect, both given…
Rent control goes a long way to solving the housing crisis
Photo by Daniel Lobo/Flickr Economists agree, rent control doesn’t work. It makes housing less profitable and disincentivizes both the construction of new builds and the maintenance of existing ...
I’ll miss The Bay
Radishes and Gooseberries. That was how my classmates and I referred to the great explorers... The post I’ll miss The Bay first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Musical interlude
Stoto - You're Not There
It’s not nice. But I’m not a nice guy.
I am literally watching CNN for the first time since US election night because I am so, so enjoying the pain Trump and MAGA are experiencing right now. It’s glorious.…
Americans Attack Countries Based on Generative AI
The CBC exposes the bad, bonkers math used by the Trump Regime to attack allies and most other countries with unfair tariffs.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The Guardian weighs in the folly of the U.S.' self-removal from the global trade system, while Paul Krugman writes that there's no method to…
Liberation (From Your Savings) Day
Criminals should not be presidents. The post Liberation (From Your Savings) Day first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Legal News Post of the Day: April 4, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: A reprieve for snowbirds? Trump Administration sued over traveller registration requirement #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/SDIIgmfQep - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wisel...
The killing of critical thinking.
The removal of any one critical of any literature that does not match that of the new U.S. regime has now reached even the naval libraries. When the those in…
The killing of critical thinking.
The removal of any one critical of any literature that does not match that of the new U.S. regime has now reached even the naval libraries. When the those in…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 19, 2017
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 19, 2017 via Wise Law Blog: Using Social Media To Build Your Online Reputation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2017/01/using-social-media-to-build-your-online.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our To...
20 Years of Wise Law Blog
Time won't permit an epic post, recapping our entire two decades through the law-blawgosphere that was (and could have been), but it's been fun and challenging and busy and a…
Today’s News: Carney says "We are masters in our own home" and Poilievre gets a "killer" endorsement
On Thursday, Carney gave a major speech about the US tariffs and it was great: "We must respond with both purpose and force," he said. "We are a free, sovereign…
Canada’s support for LNG is support for Trump’s new form of fossil-fuelled fascism
Cholla Power Plant, near Joseph City, Arizona. Photo by PDTillman/Wikimedia Commons. American so-called “natural gas” (the mixture of hydrocarbons made up mostly of methane) producti...