Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 8, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 8, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Georgia Judge Rejects Trump’s Effort to Short-Circuit Election Case Trump Employee Released…
On Barbie
I saw Barbie, and it was fun, particularly for those of us who love a good choreographed dance number, life-size Barbie decor, and tons of costume changes and hairstyles. The…
Picking a Liberal Winner.
Sorry, there will be no Morning Line from me on the current liberal leadership contest in Ontario. The opinion piece in the Toronto Star by Bob Hepburn last week tended…
Danielle Smith in damage-control mode as freeze on new renewable electricity generation projects sparks hostility
The nearly universally hostile reaction to Alberta Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf’s announcement last Thursday that the province had imposed a seven-month freeze on new renewable electricity generation projects over one…
Collapse of modern society
University of Manchester’s Dr. Kevin Anderson is a visiting researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at Sweden’s Uppsala University. Anderson warns that continuing on our current path will result…
‘Specialized Prosecution Unit’ will work only in Calgary and Edmonton, Deputy Premier Mike Ellis tells talk-show caller
Thanks to yesterday’s airing of the Global News/Corus Entertainment Your Province, Your Premier radio show, we now have a little more insight into the United Conservative Party’s plan to create…
Justin Trudeau triggers homophobic conservative men with his Barbie tweet and we love him for it!
Justin Trudeau has such a knack for triggering homophobic conservative men who make up the bulk of his irrational opposition. It’s hilarious and sad this simple photo of a father…
Reading the latest Indictment of Donald Trump for his criminal attempts to thwart American democracy is a cathartic experience in this increasingly crazy world
The madness that the narcissistic man-child criminal rapist sociopath Donald Trump has unleashed on this world has always been hugely unwelcome by sane, reasonable, rational human beings who know far…
Canada’s newspaper chains badly overplayed their hand in attempted tech shakedown
Photo by Sue Thompson/Flickr As the staredown continues between the Trudeau government and digital giants Meta and Google, the awful reality seems to be finally sinking in that the Online…
When Education Becomes Perverted
“If you’re not straight, white, and conservative, it doesn’t feel safe” – Raineesha Day, California teacher. Having had a career as a teacher, I have always believed in educations’s mitigating…
The Trump Of The North
According to a recent Abacus poll, a large number of Canadians don’t like any of the party leaders. Michael Harris writes: Here are the numbers: 33 per cent Liberal; 22…
Unspent Billions Exacerbating our Healthcare Crisis
From MPP Catherine Fife: “Ontario’s Budget Officer has found that the Ford government failed to spend $7.2 billion of its budget last year, including $1.7 billion unspent on health as…
Stupid Polls.
It is often worth a minute or so to answer the polls run by our local Barrie Today Internet Newspaper. The publication hardly gives the Toronto Star or Globe and…
Ain’t we havin’ some fun now!
Seems like its been one of those crazy weeks, so I found some interesting comments to share. First,Trump just cannot seem to shut up, and everyone is down for it:…
Eating off the Hill: Is VIA finally upping its catering game?
As I’ve mentioned I am a frequent train traveler, usually between Ottawa and Toronto. With them extending the eligibility during COVID I was able to achieve the highest tier of…
Community-powered energy
Over the years, clean renewable power costs have decreased steadily and efficiencies have improved. The British Columbia government and the main public utility offer few incentives for creation of energy…
Why does the UCP want to create a ‘special prosecution unit’ for Alberta cities when the evidence suggests it’s not needed?
Does the United Conservative Party Government’s intention to create a “specialized prosecution unit to address deteriorating safety in Alberta’s major urban centres” indicate there’s problem with the Alberta Crown Prosecution…
Quantum Thinking in a World in Hot Water
Where are we going, and why are we in a hand basket? This is the summer that we can say climate change is affecting our lives, wherever we are in…
Hope or Doom: Can’t it be Both?
There’s a new type of minimizer article out about climate change: concern with it indicates a mental health disorder! It’s the same tactic people use to get the public to…