Today’s News: Trudeau says farewell; Carney says hello; commentary from Scrimshaw on Gould, and from Mérand and Ling on Europe; and another great Canadian video
It was Pi Day (3.14) and a day of calculated change for Canada - Trudeau resigned, Carney was sworn in:First, Trudeau says goodbye "Justin, we hardly knew ye..."Whoa! This photo…
Musical interlude
Reyin - Lost In Motion
Despite his opponents’ constant and often deceitful yammering, Justin Trudeau grew in office, and history will remember him well
“You can hear him. The man is teary-eyed.” I speak, of course, of Rick Bell, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite political commentator. I hope Mr. Bell will forgive me for…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Nathan Tankus examines the risk that the Trump regime can arbitrarily steal money from American bank accounts. Roy Edroso discusses how Republicans are pushing…
Legal News Post of the Day: March 14, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Mark Carney to be sworn in as prime minister Friday #law #legal #legalnews https://t.co/tvSp7jBFrc - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, etc.
Mark Carney is your new Prime Minister. Given the number of Trudeau folks at his swearing-in, I assume he’s not running on a “change” platform.
It’s time to CRUSSIA!
Let's Make This End, Starting With Russia. The post It’s time to CRUSSIA! first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Can Trump’s Ukraine peace plan succeed?
Despite all the diplomatic back-and-forth, Ukraine and Russia remain far from even the most basic agreement for a permanent ceasefire in the war. Photo courtesy the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Facebook.…
Trump’s quest for a new Gilded Age
A Gilded Age-era political cartoon captioned “History repeats itself” lampoons late-19th century economic policies for reproducing the grim social inequalities of the Middle Ages. In a 2007 arti...
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 12, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 12, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: B.C. Court: Loss of "Promising" Law Career Assessed at $5.1 Million https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/bccourt-loss-of-promising-law-career.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
The paradoxes of an Oscar win in a West Bank under siege
A Palestinian woman sits on the ruins of her house that was destroyed by the Israeli military in Masafer Yatta, January 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. It’s not even five…
Today’s commentary: fast tweet roundup; Emmett Macfarlane and Dale Smith laugh at Ford; Dan Gardner and David Moscrop think deep thoughts about Canada
There is so much going on right now, its hard to keep track of all of it. I check various opinion columns just about every day and usually I find…
Former AHS CEO wants her wrongful dismissal lawsuit to skip oral questions and ‘proceed directly to trial’
Charging that “an army of lawyers at Bennett Jones has been hired to defend the Government, I assume at great expense to the taxpayer,” former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana…
Still Not at the Finish Line
Jon Douglas, who wrote In It for the Long Haul, shared a series of papers that were discussed at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) that just wrapped…
Trump: “Canada should not exist”
In 2019, Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former White House communications director, warned us that the current American President "may not have early stage dementia, but he has full-blown early stage fascism."…
Tracking the Convoy Con Connections
A graphic that shows the origins and supporters of the Cons, the Convoy and their connections. The post Tracking the Convoy Con Connections first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Legal News Post of the Day: March 13, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Snowbirds must soon submit fingerprints for U.S. travel under new Homeland Security rules #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/mPLMv8ynbu - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Michael Harriot writes that the U.S. is past the point of being able to talk about mere threats to democracy, and needs instead…