Compassion as the Antidote for Capitalism
A Taylor Swift fan took the brave position of calling out the beloved superstar, and everyone else involved, for the death of Ana Clara and many in need of medical…
Profits, paycheques and the financialization of Canada’s grocery chains
Photo by Stephen Weppler/Flickr The news that workers at more than a dozen No Frills stores in Ontario could be on strike if wage demands aren’t met is becoming a…
Promises, Promises.
You can compare the current leadership race for the Ontario liberals to a schoolyard race. There is still time for somebody to get tripped. It’s a mixed race. It’s the…
H * l y S h * t! Who could possibly have known why China picked on those Two Michaels back in 2020?
A few days less than three years ago, I asked in this space: “Why did China’s government pluck the Two Michaels from among 300,000 Canadians in China?” Michael Kovrig (Photo:…
Here’s a great Doonesbury cartoon
Isn’t this hilarious? Post by @beingliberal View on Threads Here is the link to the comic on Go Comics: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/11/12
Building grassroots tenant power in Toronto’s Oakwood-Vaughan
Organizers from the Oakwood-Vaughan Tenant Union protest at Toronto City Hall. Photo by Samantha Ponting. Oakwood-Vaughan, otherwise known as Oakwood Village, is a vibrant and diverse neighbourhood located in midtown…
Council’s First Year, Part 4
The final piece in the series in CollingwoodToday begins with an egregious error: “Collingwood’s Town Council, elected one year ago on Oct. 24, 2022, is celebrating their first year in…
My latest: what haters deserve
Yumna was fifteen years old. At the school she went to in London, Ont., she painted a big floor-to-ceiling mural. On it, she’d put the Earth in space, alongside the…
Party Like It’s 1699
It feels like there are three realities out there. It’s not just three separate groups of people, because lots of people straddle a couple or even all these realities. One…
The State of the Statues.
There are stupid people in this world who think they can upset long-standing statues with impunity. My favourite statue at Queen’s Park in Toronto is that of King Edward VII…
Musical interlude
Lastlings – Far From Falling
Are Canadians surrendering to climate change?
Maybe federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is on to something. He shows little interest in the overarching issue of the day—climate change—while trashing the carbon tax, a key instrument in…
Why The Globalist Technocracy Will Fail
The globalist corporate elite have announced their plans for the world, via the WEF, the World Economic Forum’s publicly released vision for 2030, among other venues. Their plan is most…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 17, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge says Ottawa listing plastic items as toxic was ‘unreasonable and unconstitutional’ #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/h35cymet – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
How Did You Think Gazans Would Respond?
The dispute between Israel and the Palestinian people has been in and out of the news cycle my entire life. For years, the narrative in the news has been very…
Living and Writing in the Anthropocene
I don't need to imagine a dystopian future. The Anthropocene epoch is already here. Extreme weather events are happening right now where I live in South America. Right now, there…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 23, 2015
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 23, 2015 via Wise Law Blog: Tips on Law Blogging http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2015/01/slawtips-tips-on-law-blogging.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Living and Writing in the Anthropocene
I don’t need to imagine a dystopian future. The Anthropocene epoch is already here. Extreme weather events are happening right now where I live in South America. Right now, there…
What Sane Person?
The Republican Party is a collection of vile and incompetent people. Leading their parade is Donald Trump. But close behind him is Marjorie Taylor Greene. Dana Milbank writes: After eight…