After They Light The Match
The Republicans plan to hold the Biden Administration hostage over the national debt. They tried this once before — in 2011. This time around, Paul Krugman writes, things are different:…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013 via Wise Law Blog: The “Simple” Will: Not Always So Simple http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-simple-will-not-always-so-simple.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Deconstructing Loblaw’s inept self-justification
Loblaw’s inept efforts on social media to justify its super-sized inflation-fueling profits provide an opportune moment to remind shoppers of the crucial economic facts regarding supermarket profitability. Photo from Flickr.…
Canada: One of the ‘biggest gangsters in Haiti’
Canadian Soldiers in Haiti. Photo courtesy Combat Camera/DND/Flickr. The Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), founded in 1981, works in solidarity with people standing up for self-determination, social justice and for…
Time, Tide and Schreiner.
It is too bad the Toronto School Board wants to switch Grade 12 literature from Shakespeare and Dickens to native Canadian writers. There will just be another demarcation in where…
"Abandoned to violence" – Ottawa People’s Commission first report
The Public Order Emergency Commission report is due this month, but already we have an initial report from the Ottawa People’s Commission — a community initiative set up last June…
Britain stumbles
Britain (and I suppose Canada) will soon celebrate a brand new king. Charles III will bring another new face to eleven centuries of English royalty. The nation, however, needs much…
Warning: Blog may be offensive to nobody
Late last year, Stanford University (one of those ritzy U.S. colleges that parents spend fortunes to send their kids to so they can brag their kid went to Stanford), issued…
New one. Iceland at 10:30 sunrise.
Iceland. New one. Had to get it out, and I did. pic.twitter.com/f9i8u1ZxvA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 2, 2023
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nicoletta Lanese reports on a new analysis showing that COVID-19 has become a leading cause of death among U.S. children. Ewen Callaway…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 2, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: 899 people received care from fake nurse at B.C. Women’s Hospital, health authority says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3Hx6VeX – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Can I make my own Will using an online form?
Beware. If you use an online form instead of a lawyer: 1. You aren’t getting personalized advice from a lawyer who has assessed your needs and interests. 2. Nobody is…
Is The Tide Turning?
Canadians have known economic pain for quite a while now. Glen Pearson writes: Canadians continue to feel that the ongoing impacts of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are having detrimental effects on…
More Trees Means Less Death
In the cold of winter you might not be thinking of the nice hot summer days as a negative thing. In the winter when temperatures get really low people suffer…
My latest: deploy, not defund
Defund the police. Those three words became a rallying cry in the Summer of 2020, when a Minneapolis man named George Floyd was brutally murdered by members of that…
Compassion in an age of anxiety and disillusionment
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté Knopf Canada, 2022 Published in September 2022, Canadian physician and author Gabor Maté’s…
The Peaking of Poilievre.
We used to worry in political campaigns about when we peaked. This was a point when you could not get any further up the hill and had started going back…
Athabasca University President fired after long-running disagreement with UCP over institution’s role in Athabasca Town
After months of scrapping with the United Conservative Party government over the role Athabasca University should play in economic development for the Town of Athabasca, university president Peter Scott has…
Former premier, CMOH – both battered by the winds of COVID controversy – find soft post-pandemic landings
Surely it was mere coincidence that two of the principal actors in Alberta’s COVID-19 drama had soft post-pandemic landings announced yesterday. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Former…
Will Frances Widdowson get her job back?
Frances Widdowson was not Miss Popularity at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Over 6,000 people signed a petition calling for her firing. They wanted her gone. And gone she was.…