Scenes from the People’s Circle for Palestine at King’s College Circle on the University of Toronto Campus, May 2, 2024. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. The politics of power and…
Photo by greenzowie/Flickr In a classic case of “better late than never,” an Ottawa think tank has issued what it calls the Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism urging news media…
Former Alberta health minister Tyler Shandro has been a member of the board of Covenant Health since December 2023. Mr. Shandro as he now appears on the Covenant Health board…
Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow on the Future for Workers – Recipient of the 2023 Galbraith Prize in Economics This lecture was delivered on May 31, 2024, at the Canadian Economics…
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. Thirty-four criminal charges and found guilty for every one of them. Thirty four! Of course, I don’t have to tell…
Black smoke rises in Gaza in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike. Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images. As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital…
A message that dropped into my in-basket this week provided one of those moments that buoys your hope for humanity. And it was a political message at that. As a…
My good friend Dave in Winnipeg was reading my blog the other day about the expensive Doug Ford Follies regarding expanded beer and wine sales in Ontario. The experience of…
My good friend Dave in Winnipeg was reading my blog the other day about the expensive Doug Ford Follies regarding expanded beer and wine sales in Ontario. The experience of…
To pretend that those behind the explosion in antisemitism share our values is to be deeply stupid. They clearly don’t, whoever they are. Shooting up schools and firebombing places of…
Say what you will about Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, you have to admire their sheer brass. Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay (Photo: Facebook/Charlie Angus). Consider the…
What I find remarkable about “small c-” Canadian Conservatives is how reluctant, how reticent, they are to acknowledge the economic change that is going on around them. Unlike Brian Mulroney…
PVRIS – Mirrors
Assorted content to end your week. – Jillian Ambrose reports on a study showing that there’s no reason to approve any new fossil fuel development to meet current demand forecasts…
Amid the doom and gloom on the climate change front, we are occasionally treated to some good news. That was the case this week with the announcement by Environment Minister…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump Convicted on All Counts to Become America’s First Felon President #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/y4bsydwh – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Life can feel like one long lesson about how to have more healthy emotions & less “bad” ones. Or am I the only one that feels this way? Read on…
Donald Trump, convicted criminal. If you want to get detailed and in-depth coverage and commentary about this historic criminal case, there’s lots and lots that has been written by some…
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Ben Varela, please stop, as he has beenreleased (time served!). If you send to Hridindu Roychowdhury, he has been transferred:Hridindu Roychowdhury #51111-510FCI MarionPost…
Yesterday, the law finally caught up with Donald Trump. Dana Milbank writes: After the jury convicted him Thursday evening on 34 felony counts in the hush money case, he stood…
