A forest of oil derricks at the Signal Hill oilfield in southern California, 1937. Many vital left-wing books about global oil politics have been published over the last 15 or…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Fiona Harvey, Damian Carrington, Ajit Niranjan and Dharna Noor report on Antonio Guterres' warning to the COP29 climate conference that 2024 has been a…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: How did thieves steal your car? Maybe with a device they ordered online #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://t.co/DNbNyoWEeX - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
In the midst of moving stuff around some links -not broken – got buried. If they can be found, they still work. For any who
A family law Separation Agreement is a binding legal agreement signed by both spouses to document the resolution of all or some of the legal issues arising from their separation.…
The American right wing alliance is far more insidious than they are given credit for, reminiscent of a religious-oligarchal pact that has defined another region's politics for centuries.
Jim Brady and Malcolm Norris. Image taken from the cover of Murray Dobbin’s 1981 book, The One-and-a-Half Men: The Story of Jim Brady and Malcolm Norris. This December marks the…
Photo by Mazur/Flickr Israel is destroying the United Nations, and with it, our only venue for an internationally coordinated project of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Over the last ...
BNN Bloomberg is a reasonably sober business news organization, so when it reports as it did yesterday that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government wants to make Stephen Harper chair of…
As we watch the United States take a right turn and go sailing off the Trump cliff, I have been looking for articles and tweet threads that give advice on…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Guardian's This is Climate Breakdown series offers first-hand accounts of the current catastrophes arising out of the climate crisis. And Michael Mann…
It’s the economy, stupid. Democratic strategist James Carville famously uttered those words first, during the 1992 US presidential campaign. They’ve become the accepted political wisdom ever since. What’s fascinating is…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Long list of rules pits Ontario neighbours against townhouse board #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://t.co/kfGIA9gyqV - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Whenever our next election rolls around, I'll be ready - ready not to vote for the Conservatives. Ready not to vote for the Liberals. By default, I shall, in all…
In 2015, an Ontario Court awarded 27 months’ of pay in lieu of reasonable notice to a 65-year-old civil engineer who had been employed for 40.66 years. In exceptional circumstances…
"Stories from the Internet" is an occasional series.Here's a story I saw on Facebook: The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an…
Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner wants us to believe he sacked the CEO and entire board of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. last Thursday because, as his news release put…
Long before Blandings, long before Downtown Abbey, long before Upstairs, Downstairs (both the 1971 original and the short-lived 2010 remake), even long before The Duchess of Duke Street, there was…
