Avian Flu and You
Avian flu has jumped to cows and a person, which is a little bit bigger deal than just avoiding soft boiled eggs. H5N1 was contracted by someone in Texas who…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Is a foreign Will valid in Ontario?
This can depend on the Will itself. Some factors to consider are: 1. Does the Will intend to apply to property in Ontario? 2. Can the words of the Will…
Climate Fools
Max Fawcett writes that Conservative climate policy is a joke: There’s a growing irony in the carbon tax increase falling on April Fools’ Day every year, since it now offers…
Manitoba NDP increase policing spending by almost $30 million
In 2024-25, spending on provincial policing in Manitoba will increase by $28.6 million, from $270.6 million in 2023-24 to almost $300 million this year. Photo courtesy Wab Kinew/X. After forming…
What’s with our unhappy youth?
Why are old Canadians so happy and young Canadians so unhappy? That’s the story the World Happiness Report (WHR) tells us. Every year the report is issued by a partnership…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 3, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Woman arrested after allegedly stealing deposits from prospective tenants: police #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/2da5dzpz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Truly, Irredeemably Bad
I take this blog seriously. In it, I try to offer informed aggregation and commentary, and hope that I am never needlessly cruel or uncouth. However, in order to make…
My latest: CBC, where fairness towards Israel goes to die
Canada’s state-funded national broadcaster has a secretive committee to oversee the network’s reporting on Israel – presumably to provide balance. But Jews who work at the CBC say the network’s…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Estate Tax
There are 3 basic ways in which most simple Estates may be required to pay taxes. 1. If all or part of your state is being submitted to Probate, you’ll…
The politics of politics: my first nomination campaign
After the 2006 election, with the Liberals in opposition and Martin out as leader, Guelph MP Brenda Chamberlain let it be known that she would not run again, ultimately resigning…
Neoliberalism is Canada’s real productivity problem
The Bank of Canada complex on Ottawa’s Wellington Street. Photo courtesy the Bank of Canada Museum. It is rare for the Bank of Canada to say that we face a…
Leftists worldwide rally around Boris Kagarlitsky, call for liberation of all Russian anti-war political prisoners
Boris Kagarlitzki (second from right) appears at a hearing during his trial. Photo courtesy TASS. Below this article we have included Kagarlitsky’s most recent prison letter to his daughter in…
Remembering the ‘year of the Irish’
Statues placed at Toronto’s Ireland Park to represent the arrival of the Irish famine migrants on the city’s waterfront in 1847. Designed by Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie, they were modelled…
Rush to ‘Recovery Alberta’ mental health agency sure looks like an ideological drug-treatment hobbyhorse
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is about to carve thousands of employees and $1.13 billion out of Alberta Health Services to create what looks like a drug-treatment hobbyhorse for a…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Festive cat.
Eating off the Hill: April is Filipino Restaurant Month across Canada
I'll get back to my Halifax culinary adventures soon (think seafood) but I wanted to jump ahead because April is Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada and, last week, a friend…
Eating off the Hill: April is Filipino Restaurant Month across Canada
I'll get back to my Halifax culinary adventures soon (think seafood) but I wanted to jump ahead because April is Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada and, last week, a friend…
Eating off the Hill: April is Filipino Restaurant Month across Canada
I’ll get back to my Halifax culinary adventures soon (think seafood) but I wanted to jump ahead because April is Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada and, last week, a friend…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 2, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Attempted murder is not a priority’: Victims of tossed out cases speak out amid lower Ont. justice funding #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3va4yc89 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…