Bearing Witness
Brandon Friedman wrote an important thread about what we do now. Here it is in full:"This is a German woman being marched past the bodies of Holocaust victims. After World…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: How much are Ontario Probate Fees?
Ontario’s probate fees are $250 for the first $50,000 of an estate’s value and $15 for each additional $1,000.These fees are properly referred to as Estate Administration Taxes. These taxes…
Rule by a dangerous narcissist
A fundraising group led by Republican Kevin Grantham commissioned a portrait of Donald Trump by Sarah Boardman. The painting was unveiled in August 2019 and hung in Arizona's rotunda gallery…
Ok, this is pretty funny — some comments that will make you laugh
So here are some funny posts about some maybe-not-so-funny events. But we do need to laugh sometimes, don't we: About the election campaign: Someone clearly advised Pierre Poilièvre to smile…
Danielle Smith tries to turn tables on critics with diatribe defending plan to meet far-right Florida bloviator today
Under fierce attack for asking Trump Administration officials pause their tariff war on Canada until a friendlier Conservative government could be elected in Ottawa and anticipating more of the same…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Leggy cat.
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Moira Doneghan discusses what the leaked Signal war crime planning among several top Trump regime officials says about how decisions are being made within…
Avoiding the Sausage Machine
click to readI attended an excellent masterclass on "Trans-Inclusive Philosophy" with Sophie Grace Chappell last week, put on by The Philosopher magazine. She wrote Epiphanies and Transfigured, and this paper…
Legal News Post of the Day: March 26, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/P13lkZyBuw - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
UPDATED: Nothing To See Here, Eh?
The Trump administration insists nothing was classified. Others beg to differ.UPDATE: To put into proper perspective something the right-wing is collectively dismissing as a tempest in a teapot, there is…
Republicans Leaving Canadian Federal Politics (by choice or otherwise)
There is a federal election underway and I wanted to take a second to look at what this means for the monarchy. While the monarchy is not directly effected by…
Startling increases in outsourced surgical costs tend to corroborate claims of contract irregularities made by fired AHS CEO: Parkland study
Analysis of public data showing startling increases in the cost of outsourced surgical procedures in Alberta that cannot be explained by inflation or input costs seem to corroborate claims of…
Could It Happen Here?
As we watch the rapid and horrifying descent of America into the ever-enlarging ranks of authoritarian nations who have eschewed democratic values, one question haunts me over and over again.
music, baseball, history and ribs: yep, we’re still going
Canadians are supposedly choosing to boycott travel to the US now. I include that "supposedly" because most Canadians were probably not going to travel to the US anyway. But if…
Norway’s oil and gas fund
Our governments believe that resources belong to those who exploit them today and that future generations have no right to a share of the province's asset values.
Today’s News: Carney knocks it out of the park; Poilievre is stuck in FAFO
First, Carney's National Corridor for Canada proposal is the kind of big-picture thinking that Liberals seem to do best. Dean Blundell Canada Just Checked Trump’s Ego: Carney’s Super-Corridor Sets Stage…
Rule of chaos, not the rule of law
Conservative J. Michael Luttig, a former U.S. Appeals Court Judge appointed by Republican George H.W. Bush Luttig, wrote in the NY Times about Trump's "stunning frontal assault" on the rule…
Tax tales
It seemed like an appropriate time for a post on taxes. For a number of... The post Tax tales first appeared on Views from the Beltline.