Avoiding a tariff while saving the climate
Justin Trudeau’s government introduced a carbon-pricing regime with two components: a levy on fuel paid... The post Avoiding a tariff while saving the climate first appeared on Views from the…
Lambda Posters Year Three 1971-1972
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…
Game, set, match
And, with that, I do believe the Trump regime just guaranteed the election of Mr. Carney. cf90e498d44bb6045e9feef9b49de9ad8d6537d6
My latest: godless
What would Jesus do? Well, if He ran Elections Canada, He probably wouldn’t do what Elections Canada is doing this year. Which is conduct advance polls on some of the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Nesrine Malik writes about the need for the rest of the world to imagine - and then build - an international order which…
Legal News Post of the Day: April 15, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Ontario's severed ties with Starlink impedes access to legal services in remote First Nations #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/SJYilTlw6H - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Calling It For What It Is
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has failed to act on the civil rights of a single citizen that was exported from the US to El Salvador,…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Can a temporary layoff be considered a termination of employment?
Temporary layoffs of employment may not be permitted unless there is an employment contract that specifically permits such layoffs. In most circumstances, legally permitted layoffs can only last:A. Not more…
Here’s why a lawyer hired by the government can’t represent public employees in an auditor general investigation …
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, her government was just trying to be helpful when it instructed thousands of public employees to refer calls from the auditor general about his…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write about the rise of end-times fascism - and its connection to the long-standing project among the wealthiest few…
Confronting Imperialism in the Age of Western Decline
Peace Alliance Winnipeg held its annual general meeting on April 12, 2025. This year’s meeting featured a keynote address by Manitoba author Owen Schalk entitled “Confronting imperialism in the age…
Legal News Post of the Day: April 14, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Foreign worker who paid $25K to land job in Canada awarded $115K by BC employment standards tribunal #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/ppe1pxe8G2 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
My latest: Warren’s war room rules
The first rule of fight club: don’t talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club: don’t talk about fight club. The third rule: if you break the first…
greg palast: trump lost — and our most hallowed media didn’t tell us
Allan recently shared with me a sobering piece by Greg Palast. It illustrates so much of what is wrong with both the US's fake electoral system and the major media.…
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…