This from Professor Michael E. Mann: Sagan rightly feared the “celebration of ignorance”. He didn’t quite anticipate, however, the *weaponization* of ignorance that we are now seeing. Carl Sagan predicted…
Neighbourhoods in Canada are trying to change the world by focussing on their own street. Across the country there are streets of houses proving that a transition from using fossil…
Democracy has been under persistent attack around the world. The man who began the trend — Donald Trump — is still leading the attack. Michael Harris writes: Trump . .…
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 13, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: B.C. set to introduce legislation targeting revenge porn Ontario’s top court strikes…
What have the Province of Ontario and the State of Israel in common? They have political leaders who want to rewrite the law. They want to be the law. Neither…
Photo by Hamza Butt/Flickr The new health accord between Ottawa and the provinces provides more money, but it could also easily bring an even faster rollout of for-profit provision of…
Some folks think social media is a toxic cesspool and avoid it. Other search for valuable content and find it. Many have found Zachery Dereniowski, creator of this video, which…
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley gave a rip-roaring speech to the party faithful in Edmonton Saturday, but a consensus is emerging among the commentariat and many voters that the Opposition…
There was a mystery haunting our Supreme Court throughout February. Justice Russell Brown wasn’t showing up for work. Last week the mystery was solved. The judge has been suspended with…
Ms Soapbox is on week six of an eight week renovation. The sad little room in the photo is what is left of her writing room. She’s taken to working…
A Repugnance of Republicans. A Sycophancy of Saundersonites. A Conspiracy of Conservatives. A Misanthropy of MAGA-Hatters. A Cowardice of Councillors. A Laziness of Reporters. A Slyness of Staff. A Corruption…
Beautiful sunshine today, with temperature below freezing. Things are melting in the sun, nevertheless, and the days of sledding are numbered. Winter is drawing to a close.
Condo towers in Toronto. Photo courtesy PARTISANS Projects/Flickr. Last November, Gaétan Héroux and I wrote an article for Canadian Dimension on an emerging struggle to prevent the construction of a…
Jagmeet Singh is not happy with Justin Trudeau. Althia Rag writes: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had tough words for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week. “It seems like the prime…
Photo by Kurt Bauschardt/Flickr Rent control is back. Or rather, it never really left. We’ve just started paying attention again. For decades, we were told by policymakers that rent control…
Like wise writers everywhere, it is great fun to drop the bomb in your last paragraph. Chantel Hébert did it the other day in the Toronto Star. In a story…
Its the weekend, so here we go with some random stuff from the lighter side. BBC News posted an very odd tweet about how the pandemic hadn’t really affected anyone’s…
Vowing to reinvest in education, make “bold reforms” necessary to fix health care, and put an end to plans to fire the RCMP and gamble with Albertans’ pensions, NDP Leader…
