Alberta premier Danielle Smith, defiant and unrepentant, continues to slough off criticism of the report on Alberta’s COVID-19 response produced by her government’s a handpicked panel of vaccine skeptical and…
An M23 soldier stands guard overlooking Bunagana, a small town in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Al Jazeera/Flickr. Eastern Congo is facing…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Brian Beutler discusses how U.S. Democrats need to respond to Donald Trump's attempt to end democracy and human rights with something more than complaints…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Ticketmaster class-action settlement to reimburse 1 million Canadians for deceptive fees #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/j0ozSDTiaV - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw....
Available from LeftWingBooks.net Good political writing is incendiary. It strikes a balance between the historian and the propagandist, while also (ideally) not coming off as the ravings of a complete…
The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) assist Ontario Courts in determining the entitlement, amount, and duration of spousal support payable by a spouse in Family Law proceedings.The Guidelines consider the…
H/t MoudakisWell, that stalwart 'steward' of the Ontario economy has called an early election. Flush with confidence that his $200 rebates (which only cost us $3.2 billion) and his beer…
Social media has gone from building communities to breaking communities.
The Athabasca oil sands in northwest Alberta. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. The response to America’s renewed belligerence under Trump 2.0 has been all over the map. Doug Ford, perhaps Canada’s…
Well, yes, maybe it's hopeless but we can still laugh."GARGLE MY BALLS!" will be my new battle cry. https://t.co/gkuezCaBtP— Qiilu (@Qiilu1) January 29, 2025 "Gargle my balls" is the revolutionary…
As far as wages go, Alberta workers now face a significant “Alberta Disadvantage,” says a report published yesterday on the continuing suppression of wages and salaries in the Western Canadian…
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This situation involving the collection industry amuses me, but there is a serious issue here. Some elderly citizens have their capacity for self-protection diminish as time passes. Extortionate collectors know…
My great friend from my Hill days, always a voice of wisdom and decency. The fact that we agreed on most everything didn’t hurt, either. He was one of the…
Rather than speaking truth to power, legacy media have become stenographers with amnesia, hiding the truth through the use of anodyne adjectives, convoluted phrasing and buried leads. In some cases,…
King Charles III, King of Canada Donald Trump has made repeatedstatements in recent months aboutthe desirability of Canada becominga state in that most disreputable ofrepublics. This is besides Trump'sthreats to…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump administration fires Justice Dept. lawyers who brought criminal cases against him #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/GcsaczLQ6G - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
CALGARY – There are different types of conservatives. In Canada, all will be facing big tests very soon. All of them get categorized as conservatives. But in personality and style,…
Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards Act in wrongful dismissal cases that are decided in Court?Ontario's Employment Standards Act provides only for employees' minimum notice and…
