Supporting Atrocities
This is an excellent 7 minute video explaining WHY the U.S. and U.K. and other wealthy nations so strongly support Israel’s current atrocities. No spoilers. Just watch it! (h/t Adlie)
Vanishing Volunteers.
A friend of mine was fired the other day. And there is no severance pay for a volunteer. He was a volunteer at Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) here in Barrie,…
Chrystia Freeland says Canada’s chief actuary will determine how much cash Alberta would actually get if it pulls out of the CPP
When we heard Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner say yesterday he’s encouraged to hear that the federal government will ask the Government of Canada’s chief actuary to determine how much…
Musical interlude
Stoto – Nostalgia
Warming in the Pipeline
There are brutal fires across Austrailia right now and horrible flooding in many places including Italy, and winds clocked over 200 mph in Acapulco, one of the strongest winds ever…
BLOWBACK – And Collapse
JFK, MLK, The CIA – And The Collapse Of The West Yes, the evidence is clear: the CIA killed JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X. They are the goons of…
Catherine Tait’s vigorous defence of the CBC and good journalism
Conservatives on the House of Commons Heritage Committee are upset with the CBC for its newsroom’s longstanding practice of not referring to attacks by non-state groups or their perpetrators as…
Powerful Political Leadership
As the war between Israel and Gaza rages on, it is almost too painful to watch the devastation that the former is inflicting on the latter. I have always been…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Himelfarb reviews Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism as a valuable account of the myths and rationalizations underlying the propagation of inequality to serve…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 3, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ford denies involvement in Greenbelt scandal, says RCMP has not contacted him amid investigation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3cdn6aeu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Israel/Palestine; Russia/Ukraine – The Politics of War
One of the key features of war in the modern era is the need to demonize the “other” in order to create a justification for military action. In the Russia/Ukraine…
The REAL Foreign Influence
Real foreign influence isn’t just China. It’s global anti-climate change oiligarchs that could care less about what’s left for the next generation of Earth’s inhabitants. The post The REAL Foreign…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 24, 2011
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 24, 2011 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Wrongful Dismissal Claims and Limitation Periods http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2011/02/ontario-employment-law-wrongful.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
The Face of Poilievre’s Monetary Policy
Who in their right mind would suggest using crypto as the backbone of our monetary policy? Oh yeah … a career politician with no real-world experience. The post The Face…
from the archives: my journey to palestinian solidarity and the myth of the self-hating jew (a three-part story)
This seems like a good time to re-post this three-part series. It remains one of the best pieces I’ve written. Part one, my Jewish identity: my journey to palestinian solidarity…
The Gall of the Geopolitics.
It is becoming clear after all these years of studying our politics, that Canadians are dealing with far more political factions and causes than are needed to govern this country.…
Super cheap electricity
Seattle based writer David Roberts reports on energy matters. Recently Roberts explored the variability of renewable energy. Opponents of wind and solar power rely on this subject to raise objections.…
As Edmonton activist Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, with the planet afire, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus at the Legislature
The way Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus inside the Chamber of the Alberta Legislature moments after Monday’s Throne Speech. The moment on…
Can unions restore a stable America?
A stable US is important to all of us. A very imperfect democracy but nonetheless by far the most important, it is the central pillar of global liberty. Recently that…
Nothing New
Studies coming out now keep repeating what we already know. Covid was at first thought to be a respiratory illness, but we know it makes its home in the bloodstream…