Taking stock of the Air Canada strike
Air Canada flight attendants on the picket line last month. Photo courtesy CUPE. Last month’s strike at Air Canada, which saw flight attendants defiantly walking the picket lines, struck a…
The Truth About Charlie Kirk
Unfortunately, the lionization of the late racist Charlie Kirk is not confined to the Benighted States of Amerika. To the Conservatives of Canada, Charlie Kirk is a martyr to free…
To repair or not to repair, that is the TV question
Last Wednesday, my wife woke me with four words nobody wants to hear. “The television doesn’t work.” I’ve heard this before. My 65” Samsung, with its various boxes attached, can…
Not Selves, but Not Nothing
We're living at a time when the glorification of independence and individualism is harming the world and others in it, as well as leading to an epidemic of loneliness. According…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of September 15, 2025
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 15, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 15, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' sentenced to 10 years in prison Appeals Court Upholds…
10 thoughts on the Ontario Liberal Party AGM this weekend
I’m on the train on my way back to Ottawa for the return of Parliament after spending the weekend in Toronto for the Ontario Liberal Party Annual General Meeting. And…
Saturday Photo: The Last Bridge?
Pleased to announce that Dundurn Press will be publishing my novel The Last Bridge in May 2027. For those who'd like to know more, check out my short story "Ketamine"…
But I Thought Amerika Loves Free Speech.
Just a follow up on my previous post, which tried to take to task the arrant hypocrisy of Amerikans who trumpet free speech but become virulently opposed to it when…
Rhetoric And Assassination
This week’s political assassination in the United States was not the year’s first, and the difference in reaction among right wing leaders is terrifyingly stark.
What Being A Patriot Now Means In Amerika
Well, in light of the murder of right-wing emblem Charlie Kirk, Trump's Amerika is enjoying a shot in the arm (no pun intended). That free-speech loving country is now being…
Book review: Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band
by Stephen T. Lewis The lives of the members of The Band, all of whom are no longer with us, have been heavily documented. Levon Helm started it off with…
I Am Woke
I am woke. I welcome you to be woke as well. The post I Am Woke first appeared on Excited Delirium.
They Are Contemptible
As I have written before, there seems to be no bottom to the depths to which Republicans in general, and one in particular, will descend. In the aftermath of the…
Words come back to bite
Cole Bennett correctly wrote that Kirk's murder will not advance any of the causes he opposed. Violence against leaders is most often a consequence of damaged trust in political and…
The Department Of War
Last week, the United States Navy attacked a Venezuelan vessel in international waters, killing everyone on board under flimsy legal pretext. Like the January 6 pardons and the deployment of…
Please help
Mashup of the latest Banksy with #funding local #ldnont #homeless issues.
Ex-Brit Army commander: Qatar had it coming
Richard Kemp is a retired soldier, but he still talks like one in active service. Speaking to a crowd of attentive listeners at the Toronto home of former Canadian Senator…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Sirota writes that the sources of America's descent into authoritarianism can be traced readily to the longstanding trend toward the consolidation of…