A Pariah State
With so many terrible things transpiring in today's world, it is often hard to feel any hope. Wars and injustices abound, and we are met daily with images of death,…
The left should defend democracy, not Ottawa’s bid to curb the notwithstanding clause
Supreme Court of Canada. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The federal government is intervening in the slow-moving Supreme Court case over Québec’s pre-emptive invocation of Section 33, the notwith...
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Still from the “We Are Canadian” video, featuring Nova Scotia’s Jeff Douglas. Image from YouTube. In response to the re-election of Donald Trump, the United States’ on-again, off-again tariff wa...
Jimmy Kimmel is 2025’s WTC2
Any of you who were born after, say, 1990 might not get that reference. For those who don't, when the first World Trade Center tower in NYC (WTC1) had a…
Cryptocurrency and War – Cousins in Absurdity – Challenged by AI
Cryptocurrency – a way to supposedly create wealth by wasting massive amounts of water and energy to do meaningless computer calculations that solve no actual real life problems or serve…
What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump [ThreeWayFight]
by Matthew N Lyons Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates September 16, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Why We Need A Strong Military
Poland invoked NATO Article 4 last week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace forcing a defensive military response. On the weekend, Romania reported a Russian drone violating their airspace, as…
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.