Now This Is How You Make A Commercial
Just a change of pace for today. Besides, have you ever seen Samuel L. Jackson give a bad performance? Recommend this Post
A Backbenchers’ Theoretical Power: Private Members’ Business
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…
We Should Be Ashamed
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…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Dying without a Last Will
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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Ding, dong the efficiencies defence is dead
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…
Myths We Live By, and Die By
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…
Come Blow Your Horn.
You have to admit, Little Boy Blue got a lot of attention from the media with his speech to the conservative convention recently. It was neither modesty nor myopia, nor…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Exhausted cats.
One Faction of the "Save the Children" Convoy Set To Leave September 20, 2023
Most people (as well as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network) have been rightfully focused on the "1 Million March 4 Children" planned for September 20 as well as helping to drum…
One Faction of the "Save the Children" Convoy Set To Leave September 20, 2023
Most people (as well as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network) have been rightfully focused on the "1 Million March 4 Children" planned for September 20 as well as helping to drum…
One Faction of the "Save the Children" Convoy Set To Leave September 20, 2023
Most people (as well as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network) have been rightfully focused on the “1 Million March 4 Children” planned for September 20 as well as helping to drum…
My take on this week’s big story
Look, sorry to be a lawyer and all that, but if another country murdered a citizen of this country who was in this country, I don’t give a sweet shit…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Borg discusses how the climate breakdown is compressing planetary changes which would normally take millions of years into individual lifetimes –…
Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare
“Business is Booming.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of US and NATO bombing, was overthrown…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 19, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario court dismisses sex workers’ Charter challenge #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4rswssf6 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Covid or Climate: Can’t it be both?
In a local school board meeting from last June, in which they discussed their plan to remove HEPAs in rooms that had mechanical ventilation added (as if it’s and either/or…
“You’re what this war is all about”—or not
A boy looking at an Israeli soldier in front of the West Bank barrier. Photo by Justin McIntosh/Wikimedia Commons. While reading Focus. Click. Wind., a new Canadian novel by writer…
Liberals Cannot Count.
It looks as though the Ontario liberals have almost doubled their membership. And they are busy arguing about it. I would be more impressed and might even care if people…
American attitudes toward climate change
A 2022 study1 by investigators from Yale and George Mason universities reported survey results after Americans were questioned about climate change. I suspect ignorance would be lower and expressions of…