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…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tinker Ready discusses how the decision to let COVID-19 spread unabated in the name of “business as usual” has lead to an…
I Am At A Loss For Words
Some days, I truly despair, and words fail me. “He’s definitely been chosen by God,” said Marie Zere, a commercial real estate broker from Long Island who attended the Conservative…
Housing As A Right
Should housing be a right. That is the question. But the real question is what would that mean and how do we make it more than a token right but…
Housing As A Right
Should housing be a right. That is the question. But the real question is what would that mean and how do we make it more than a token right but…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Discrimination in the Workplace
Ontario employers are prohibited from discrimination in the workplace against any employee. Employers may not discriminate on the basis of – Race – Religion – Citizenship – Gender – Sexual…
Powerful stories
Destruction in Gaza following an Israeli bombing raid. Photo courtesy Fars News Agency/Wikimedia Commons. Red lines In his State of the Union address, delivered on March 7, US President Joe…
Latest transfer of 2,000-pound bombs from US to Israel not newsworthy to the New York Times
The New York Times Building in Manhattan. Photo by Haxorjoe/Wikimedia Commons. When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of…
My latest: the Lawfare warriors
Who are you going to call? It’s not a Ghostbusters reference – although, the mission is similar: to defeat evil. If you’re Jewish – or if you’re a supporter of…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Aaron Wherry discusses the deadly-serious consequences of climate denialism which is driven by frivolous rhetoric. And Andre Mayer points out the numerous ways…