Poilievre, Smith Playing With CPP Fire
Canadians need to be mad that any politician – especially Poilievre – is playing games with OUR CPP. The post Poilievre, Smith Playing With CPP Fire first appeared on Excited…
Confounding the Critics.
The other day, a friend proposed a blog on how Ontario premier Doug Ford is hoping to get even with the critics who don’t want him making his friends rich…
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joins Alberta pension plan uproar, proffers weak endorsement of Canada Pension Plan
In an obvious effort to inoculate himself against being identified as an enemy of the Canada Pension Plan, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday inserted himself into the open-letter uproar…
Canada is one of the world’s leaders
Canada a world leader? Sometimes that headline is good news. This time it is not…
COVID-19 death toll: 7 million, 18 million, 27 million or 33 million?
The Economist, a 180-year-old newspaper published in Britain, has been tracking deaths from COVID-19. They examine fatalities reported by official sources, but also look for how many people have actually…
Musical interlude
Nors Kode feat. Michelle Featherstone – I’m On Fire
Suck on it, Covidiots
Just got my seventh Covid shot. Never had it. (Have had 23 flu shots over 23 years. Never got that, either.) Oh, and here are my Dr. Fauci pins that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sigal Samuel discusses the potential to better target investments toward well-being – though it seems odd to criticize measures of health as a…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 20, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario may bring in new rules to make it harder to place a lien on your home #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mtnab586 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Forestry for the Future campaign reveals the corruption of Canadian news media
A 2018 study by Montréal-based Union des Consommateurs found “serious ethical problems” with native advertising in Canada, including “the erosion of the impenetrable wall that, in the news media, must…
Free Liberal talking points
Because I’m always trying to be helpful, here are my recommended talking points for the Trudeau government. 1. Hamas ≠ Innocent Palestinians. 2. Kill, destroy, wipe out Hamas. There you…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from November 23, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from November 23, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Reflections on the Articling Debate That Was https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/reflections-on-articling-debate-that-was.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Improving Air Quality for Children Act
Our children are mandated to be in school. It should also be mandated that the building have clean air for children to breathe! Chandra Pasma, MPP for Ottawa-West and Nepean,…
Boundless, scalable, clean energy
Decarbonization is a catchword used by the fossil fuel and nuclear power industries. But each of those groups cannot eliminate inherent dangers. Unless we develop safe, carbon-free energy sources, we…
Betrayal of the Father.
It was the balance that Pierre Trudeau brought to the use of language in Canada that his eldest son betrayed. In Bill C-13’s enactment by parliament in June of this…
Will Danielle Smith’s pension scheme drive a wedge right into the heart of Conservative support?
In the past few hours, a lot of metaphorical ink has been spilled on the duelling open letters about the Alberta Government’s scheme to pull the province’s still-skeptical population out…
A loss for illiberalism, a gain for democracy
Generations of Communism is not the best training for democracy. So perhaps we shouldn’t have expected that when the Soviet Union collapsed under its own dead weight, the countries that…
We get letters: a Hamas fan writes in
This is the kind of stuff I’ve been getting – although usually I’m just accused of genocide and supporting apartheid, etc. (Yes, I blocked him.)