About Those Expanded Beer Sales
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 those attacking Doug Ford for saying the truth
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…
Truth in advertising? Forget about it, says the UCP, assailing Bill C-59 ‘gag order’ in overwrought screed
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…
Alberta could start small….
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…
Musical interlude
PVRIS – Mirrors
Friday Afternoon Links
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…
Rich polluters pay for their sins
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…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 31, 2024
#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…
Release trapped emotions today!
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…
My latest: ten points about the Mango Mussolini, convicted crook
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…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 28, 2024
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…
Finally
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…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 30, 2006
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 30, 2006 via Wise Law Blog: N.B. Court: Same-Sex Adultery is Ground for Divorce http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2006/04/nb-court-same-sex-adultery-is-ground.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
What do I know
The people who are saying to me that Trump would never ever be convicted are the same people now saying the conviction will help him win. Why don’t I listen…
Peter Rosenthal fought for justice in a tough place—the courtroom
Peter Rosenthal in 1983. Photo from Medium. An obituary announcing Peter Rosenthal’s death on May 25 describes him as “an esteemed mathematician, lawyer, and political activist with an unwavering passion…
Guilty X 34 = two solitudes in America
In Canada in the 1940s, we were experiencing what we described as Two Solitudes between our French-speaking and English-speaking peoples:...two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and…
Guilty X 34 = two solitudes in America
In Canada in the 1940s, we were experiencing what we described as Two Solitudes between our French-speaking and English-speaking peoples: …two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend…
7 years ago, the NDP announced the location of a South Edmonton Hospital; thanks to the UCP, it will probably never be built
Seven years ago yesterday, Alberta’s NDP government announced the location of a desperately needed new hospital in South Edmonton. Keep your eye on this still-empty field, where no hospital will…
GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES
Woooot!
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lauren Chadwick reports on the WHO’s findings that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a multi-year drop in life expectancy and undone a…