Guernica, now and then
“Guernica” is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most powerful anti-war painting…
The Politics Of School Boards
Having worked as a teacher for 30 years, I am well-aware of the politics that pervades and blights education. The higher one goes up the ladder, the more one is…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the day: Did you sign a non-competition agreement?
If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your employer or soliciting its customers after you leave, those restrictions may not be enforceable. NOn-competition agreements are generally unenforceable against…
Merkelism is collapsing in Europe. What will succeed it?
Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won 37 seats in the Netherlands’ 150-seat legislature, the largest single bloc, after an historic election win last week. Photo from Flickr. The victory of…
Living On A Different Planet
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes much deeper than that. It’s as…
Living On A Different Planet
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes much deeper than that. It’s as…
Living On A Different Planet
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one. There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the periphery. It goes much deeper than that. It’s as…
Fracking Hell!
Sunday was the busiest day ever for air travel in the U.S. Almost 3 million people were screened at airports across the country. Meanwhile, Gianluca Grimalda lost his job doing…
Not an Organized Party.
We used to joke that we are not members of an organized political party. We are liberals. And it was never more obvious than when the wife and I went…
#Kudatah? Not quite – even Danielle Smith admits this Sovereignty Act stuff is mostly performative fluff
“Alberta’s government will not put Albertans and their businesses at risk of freezing in the dark at -30 C due to the federal government’s proposed unaffordable, unreliable and unconstitutional Clean…
Empty promises and unmet pledges
The 28th United Nations Climate Change conference begins this week in a middle east petrostate. UAE hired a team of lobbyists to “inoculate” COP28 and Sultan al-Jaber from “any potential…
The most dangerous expansion of fossil fuel in the world
In November 2023, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkeley, along with more than 60 congressional colleagues, asked the U.S. Department of Energy to reconsider liquified natural gas (LNG) policies because those…
How to Know
We need to fight back on the idea that there’s nothing we can really know. When I taught, more and more I’d run up against the claim that there’s nothing…
five years on: reflections on the big life change
The Port Hardy skylineSince starting this blog in 2004, I've experienced three Big Life Changes. The first, of course, was emigrating to Canada. The second was becoming a librarian. More…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the 10 inescapable laws of pandemics – and the grim future they portend in light of our pitiful response to…
five years on: reflections on the big life change
The Port Hardy skyline Since starting this blog in 2004, I’ve experienced three Big Life Changes. The first, of course, was emigrating to Canada. The second was becoming a librarian.…
The Heart Of The Perennial Wisdom
Or, The Heart Of The Perennial Philosophy The Crux, Or Core Of The Matter: What is the nature of good and evil, being and reality? An open letter to two…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 27, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Stayed charge for Mountie who kneeled on man’s neck ‘erodes trust’ in police and justice, says expert #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/yfdbzab7 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
My latest: why aren’t the police doing their job?
The street my parents lived on – and where I was born – was Coolbrook Avenue in Montreal. It was previously home to poorer Irish Catholics, but is now home…
To Increase Equality Tell People the Rich Don’t Have to Work
The rich keep getting richer because we think they work for it. The thing is, they don’t work for their wealth that separates the wealthy from everyone else. What allows…