Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?
What is an Executor? An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and…
Governments are to blame for the Winnipeg landfill blockade
Protesters at the Brady Road landfill south of Winnipeg. Photo by Anne-Charlotte Carignan/SRC. The City of Winnipeg is poised to secure an injunction enabling police to remove the families and…
Ottawa blinks on Bill C-18 as Postmedia-Nordstar merger talks mercifully break off
Before a sudden about-face over the weekend, Canada’s media seemed to be imploding. Photo from 123RF. What a difference a week makes on the Canadian media rollercoaster. The last time…
Time to Move Away from Suburbia
Generic car focussed housing development. The future is 15 minutes away and it’s high time we get there. With the climate crisis in full swing we need to rethink unsustainable…
"They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival in an Indian Residential School" by Bev Sellars
{This article originally appeared in the July edition of the Anahim-Nimpo Lake Messenger . It was submitted in June 2023.}There is one book that everybody in the Cariboo-Chilcotin should read:…
"They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival in an Indian Residential School" by Bev Sellars
{This article originally appeared in the July edition of the Anahim-Nimpo Lake Messenger . It was submitted in June 2023.}There is one book that everybody in the Cariboo-Chilcotin should read:…
"They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival in an Indian Residential School" by Bev Sellars
{This article originally appeared in the Anahim-Nimpo Lake Messenger in July 2023}. There is one book that everybody in the Cariboo-Chilcotin should read: Bev Sellars’s They Called Me Number One:…
What Do We Tell the Kids?
A couple weeks ago, Obama, interviewed by Hasan Minaj, explained his thoughts on climate change (at 5:37 and 10:25, and 15:29): “If you’re not stressed about climate change at a…
Protecting Provincial Powers.
The other day, I mentioned that Oliver Mowat, Ontario’s premier for much of our country’s formative years back at the end of the 19th Century, fought with prime minister John…
UCP to loosen reins on unions … charitably
Alberta’s UCP government likes to keep a tight rein on labour unions. One of the first pieces of legislation brought in after their election in 2019 was the infamous Bill…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with friends.
Protecting the protected, abusing the abused
Amanda Follett Hosgood, northern BC reporter for The Tyee, has done a thorough job of detailing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal examination of RCMP conduct after a staff member of…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Puthussery et al. study the feasibility of real-time, location-based air sampling to identify the presence of COVID-19, while Jennifer La Grassa…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 11, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada’s backlogged civil and family courts in ‘crisis,’ according to lawyers group #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4ep4vewc – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Atticus Said It Best
Interestingly, that is exactly what Marlon Brando was talking about in 1972, when he refused the Oscar for Best Actor (The Godfather). He was opposing the portrayal of Native Americans…
Snowflakes Important to Political Organizing
vote You’re likely thinking “oh no, not another political thing about snowflakes”, but I assure you this one is different. These snowflakes are conceptual and not the stereotype of a…
Crazytown
We are about to discover just how crazy Republicans in the House of Representatives are. Eugene Robinson writes: I’ll admit I was surprised when Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) got the…
AFN’s turfing of RoseAnne Archibald undermines good Indigenous governance
Former AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald. Photo from Facebook. On June 28, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) held a virtual Special Chiefs Assembly to address the findings of a…
Landlords are profiting from Canada’s rental shortage
Condo towers in downtown Toronto. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. In their corporate reports and amongst themselves, Canada’s largest landlords are remarkably honest about where their revenue comes from—from gouging and…
Intersecting Crises: The Winning Mindset
An article from a year ago came my way, about how the super-rich ‘preppers’ are planning to save themselves from the apocalypse. Douglas Rushkoff was hired by some über rich…