Doing Our Part
As part of our 'new' relationship with the United States, Canadians are being encouraged to vacation in our own country rather than spend our dollars in a hostile nation. For…
Good reads about big events: Carney and the Premiers; Election post-mortem; Ukraine Spider’s Web; the GIGO of AI
Carney and the Premiers Complete press conference is here and the communique is here. “We’re united, we’re going to build together, and we’re going to build for all—we’re going to…
Roadmap for an arms embargo
Israeli troops on the edge of the Gaza Strip. Photo courtesy the Israel Defense Forces/Telegram. On May 28, virtually every attendee arriving at CANSEC—North America’s largest annual arm...
Mark Carney’s energy superpower talk may not frighten the UCP, but it ought to frighten Pierre Poilievre
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – The bosses of 38 Canadian oil and gas corporations signed a letter of congratulations to Prime Minister Mark Carney after his April 28 election victory and…
what i’m watching: a complete unknown: not very profound (or kind) thoughts about this movie
Bobby, Suze, the Village, the JacketSeveral people have asked me to share my thoughts about "A Complete Unknown," James Mangold's fictional biopic about Bob Dylan in the early 1960s.Allan and…
what i’m watching: a complete unknown: not very profound (or kind) thoughts about this movie
Bobby, Suze, the Village, the JacketSeveral people have asked me to share my thoughts about "A Complete Unknown," James Mangold's fictional biopic about Bob Dylan in the early 1960s.Allan and…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Denny Carter discusses how Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez is the ultimate "kitchen table" campaigner - even as she's wrongly treated as being out-of-touch by people who…
Legal News Post of the Day: June 2, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Ontario signs deals with Saskatchewan, P.E.I. and Alberta to reduce trade barriers #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2rpnrujy - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ film festival wraps as Pride Month kicks off!
Happy Pride Month to all as we start off June! I am feeling even more proud than usual at the moment after having just seen a slate of decent queer…
Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ film festival wraps as Pride Month kicks off!
Happy Pride Month to all as we start off June! I am feeling even more proud than usual at the moment after having just seen a slate of decent queer…
My latest: words can kill, and do. Ask a Jew.
Words. In Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy staff were gunned down in the street on May 21. They were assassinated as they were leaving the Capital Jewish Museum by a…
what i’m reading: two by two favourite authors: part one: roddy doyle’s the women behind the door
I took a break from reading nonfiction to read novels by two of my favourite authors: The Women Behind the Door, by Roddy Doyle, and The Fraud, by Zadie Smith.…
what i’m reading: two by two favourite authors: part one: roddy doyle’s the women behind the door
I took a break from reading nonfiction to read novels by two of my favourite authors: The Women Behind the Door, by Roddy Doyle, and The Fraud, by Zadie Smith.…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Legal News Post for the Week of June 2, 2025
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 2, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 2, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International StudentsToronto passes bylaw to…
Ontario’s costly nuclear folly
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in 2022. Photo by Robert T. Bell/Flickr. The last time the nuclear industry got its way in Ontario, the province’s erstwhile publicly-owned electric...
Life Must Be Simple For The Simple
There are times when one almost envies the simple person who can accept things at face value. For them, there is nothing to see here:Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com· 10hBASH: Is it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- A.R. Moxon discusses our role in observing and shaping the world around us with the help of the analogy of a submarine whose…
The Independence of Parliament
The beginning of the 45th Parliament has been a showcase for the ever-declining independence of our elected representatives.