So Many Reasons
Those who read this blog with any regularity likely know that I have not entered the United States since 2016 and have no intention of ever going there again. My…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Legal News Post for the Week of April 14, 2025
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 14, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 14, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Rise in asylum seekers crossing into Quebec as U.S. revokes status of thousands…
Weekend funny stuff: First-world problems, baseball funnies, political stuff, Animal Crackers
First world problems:Cruel Fate, 1525: Our cow died during the night. We will surely perish. Cruel Fate, 2025: Our Keurig stopped working during the night. We will surely perish.— Stop…
Charlie Angus brings the Resistance to Edmonton, rips into Trump, Poilievre, Smith, Moe, Manning and Maple MAGA
Charlie Angus may be retiring from federal politics, but there’s nothing retiring about the veteran New Democrat MP for Timmins-James Bay who showed up in Edmonton Sunday afternoon on the…
Shell exits Nigeria, leaving behind trail of environmental degradation
Monday Gboro stands in front of an oil spill in the Kegbara-Dere community, Rivers State, Nigeria. Photo by Luka Tomac/Friends of the Earth International/Wikimedia Commons. I’ll never forget see...
Mayors have their say
A group of 128 municipal politicians have written a letter to the leaders of the... The post Mayors have their say first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jason Sattler rightly notes that by the time Donald Trump is removed from power in the U.S., there's going to be no meaningful…
My latest: Jew-haters, Jews and the law
The blood-red paint was splashed all over the doors and windows of the bookstore. They had put up lots of pictures of the owner of the bookstore, too, atop words…
Lambda Posters Year Two 1970-1971
This is part of a series of blog posts featuring posters published in the Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario) student newspaper, Lambda during the years I worked there while studying Political…
Lambda Posters Year Two 1970-1971
This is part of a series of blog posts featuring posters published in the Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario) student newspaper, Lambda during the years I worked there while studying Political…
Daniela Klette: It’s a Settling of Accounts with This Particular History of Resistance
Trial statement at the Verden Regional Court, March 25, 2025. I agree with the defense motion to dismiss. I would, however, like to add a few things. After the RAF…
Today’s News: de-bunking the Carney smear campaign
Graeme MacKay/The Hamilton SpectatorAs the Conservatives get more desperate, the attempts to smear Carney get more heated. The latest is something about offshore tax havens. While the smears are stupid,…
Move fast and break kings
Photo by FlyD/Unsplash Trump’s tariffs demand a response, but retaliatory tariffs have severe drawbacks. Canadians have inflation fatigue and while they are rightly furious at the presiden...
Pierre Wants To Eradicate “Woke Ideology”
So, back in late March, Poilievre was unveiling his platform for Quebec, and in that speech he talked about eliminating “woke ideology” from university research. At first glance, you might…
Pierre Wants To Eradicate “Woke Ideology”
So, back in late March, Poilievre was unveiling his platform for Quebec, and in that speech he talked about eliminating “woke ideology” from university research. At first glance, you might…
Alberta Government scramble to stop leaks about dodgy health care contracts takes on a distinct Watergate vibe
The Alberta Government’s frenetic and seemingly panicky scramble to cover up leaks about the continuing dodgy health care contracts scandal is taking on a distinct Watergate vibe. Watergate, of course,…
The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative
Anyone that tells you a ‘conservative’ knows how to manage budgets … The post The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative first appeared on Excited Delirium.