LGBTQ2 rights supporters gather in Montréal, September 20, 2023. Photo by Kalden Rangdrol Dhatsenpa. The rapidity with which attacks against trans people have increased this year is a dark sign…
I week I wrote that we don’t need to know all the specifics about different variants. It just confuses people. What the public needs to know is that there are…
When politicians fail to tell the truth, when the Internet is littered with individual versions of truth, and print media is failing to survive, where do you look for truth?…
Somewhat surprisingly, we have an issue which all three major parties have agreed on. A housing crisis. There is even agreement on how to deal with it. Both the governing…
Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University is the most cited scholar in the world in megaproject management. One of his studies included this: “Underestimation cannot be explained by error and is…
Apparently I said this 11 years ago. Someone on Facebook found it. Sounds like me. “If you must know, Star Trek is really the best politics series: fly in, convert…
Let's call a spade a spade.Gender-non-conforming kids and queer kids in our schools are extremely vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, harassment, and violence. This was my experience as a gay youth…
Let's call a spade a spade.Gender-non-conforming kids and queer kids in our schools are extremely vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, harassment, and violence. This was my experience as a gay youth…
Let’s call a spade a space. Gender-non-conforming kids and queer kids in our schools are extremely vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, harassment, and violence. This was my experience as a gay…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chris Hedges interviews Matt Kennard about the hostile corporate takeover of democracy. And Adam King highlights how Canada’s oil industry is profiteering at…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trudeau Accuses India in Killing of Canadian Sikh Leader #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/bde9cj25 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Sometimes it’s difficult to know what is going on in the mind and motivation of Ontario premier Doug Ford. Is he merely a benighted soul who embraces a simple mantra…
You’re on the Internet. You express opinions. You write a letter. You show up at a meeting. If you’re Irish and Catholic, let’s say, you express sympathy for those who…
Just a change of pace for today. Besides, have you ever seen Samuel L. Jackson give a bad performance? Recommend this Post
One would assume that one of a Members of Parliament’s primary responsibilities is to bring forward, discuss, debate, and pass legislation. In reality, individual MPs have the technical power to…
The news services are abuzz with Justin Trudeau’s accusation that the Indian government was involved in the murder of a Canadian citizen. But, on that subject, something happened in the…
There’s a popular misconception that if I die without a last will everything goes to the government. That’s actually not true. If you die without a last will in Ontario…
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Most of Canada’s major industries, such as banking, oil and gas, media and retail, have long ago become dominated by oligopolies of a few dominant firms which exert inordinate market…
A brief but poignant thread by T. Ryan Gregory: It’s painful to think about how much damage these myths have caused. Myth #1: Droplet vs airborne transmission. Myth #2: Pathogens…
