The lost peace and the missing piece
With the end of the ideological conflict between communism and capitalism, a more positive peace order appeared attainable. Why did it fail to materialize? Image courtesy Fotosearch/Getty Images. Was a…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 22, 2015
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 22, 2015 via Wise Law Blog: Should the Public Continue to Fund Courts to Resolve Personal, Civil Disputes? http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2015/01/should-public-continue-to-fund-courts.html – Garry J. Wise,…
The Best Prime Minister We Never Had
There are few politicians that I gush over, but Ed Broadbent is one of them. We lost one of the good ones. I don’t like him because he’s NDP –…
Megaproject madness
CBC is reporting that three aluminum ships built in British Columbia during the 1990s will be sold or sent to the ship-breakers. Constructed for about 800 million in today’s dollars, the…
Edmonton mayor to ask city councillors to declare housing and homelessness emergency on Monday, ruffling UCP feathers
In a blog post published yesterday, Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said he has called a special meeting of City Council Monday to ask for a declaration of a housing and…
Petit gars
Listening to this guy at his birthday party. So is everyone else.
How Trump unleashed Iran
In 1953, Iran’s democratic government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq was toppled by a military coup backed by the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service. Mosaddeq had nationalized…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2024-01-11 16:32:00
Statement on the passing of Ed Broadbent Broadbent Institute / January 11, 2024 It is with the heaviest of hearts that the Broadbent Institute announces the passing of our founder,…
Bullseye
Well, would you look at that. “Arab of Canada” is launching a harassment campaign against me on social because I revealed that anti-Israel protestors are being paid. That tells me…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 11, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump Won’t Give Closing Argument at Fraud Trial After Judge Sets Limits #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes http://tinyurl.com/37fb2rff – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
My latest: follow the money
Follow the money. In any scandal, that’s the rule: follow the money. When you see who is paying, and who is benefiting, you learn plenty. Yesterday, this newspaper followed the…
Hawaiian Battery Better Than Coal
Hawaii just became an even better place to live thanks to cleaner air. The state recently decommissioned their coal power plant and replaced it with a much nicer looking battery…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the investment belong to you?
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the…
Events in Iraq and Niger put spotlight on Canadian troops abroad
Special Forces Operators from the Canadian Special Operations Regiment alongside soldiers from the Forces Armées Nigériennes in Niger, 2016. Photo courtesy Canadian Armed Forces/Facebook. In the latest episode of On…
Champion Of The Press?
Pierre Poilievre is suggesting that Justin Trudeau is an enemy of the press. Max Fawcett writes: Poilievre’s attempt to gaslight an entire country into believing he actually cares about things…
Vaccines are Still Part of the Solution
The XBB booster can help keep you out of the hospital! Why don’t we understand that? From Prof Raywat Deonandan, Epidemiologist & Research Chair at the University of Ottawa: “There…
A potentially deadly ‘Tyleonot’ gong show: Can Alberta’s UCP government be trusted to do anything right?
Prediction: Every remaining drop of the screwball Turkish children’s medicine bought by Alberta’s United Conservative Party last year for give or take $100 million just to own the Libs is…
TBT (early)
#TBT: the Chretien war room greets him the day after his big win, October 1993.
My latest: paid Palestine “protesters”
They’re being paid to protest. What many have suspected has now been confirmed by this newspaper and a few courageous Canadians: pro-Palestine – and, increasingly, pro-Hamas – protestors are being…
It is time for you to bear witness.
This is some of what I saw. It is horrible but some of us – perhaps you – are called to bear witness, and act. Here.