Wheres there’s smoke…
#ldnont, #cars, #fire
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Were You Termination with Cause
It is very difficult for employers to prove "just cause" for termination, unless there is evidence of gross or willful misconduct like theft, fraud, or intentional dereliction of duties.To establish…
Alberta separatists want to have their cake and eat it too
Yep, let's move fast and break things. This is NOT what Canada needs to deal with right now, but I guess we don't have any choice: An Alberta separatist group…
Convenience at a cost: Online food delivery apps are doing more harm than good
Food delivery worker in New York City. Photo by Julia Justo/Flickr. Beef rendang, a Malaysian classic, is one of my favourite dishes to cook. Traditionally served during Ramadan, this hearty,…
Danielle Smith and the Alberta Prosperity Project: Who’s pulling whose strings?
So, is Danielle Smith pulling the Alberta Prosperity Project’s strings, or are the pushers of the prosperity project pulling the premier’s? Yesterday, a separatist sub-faction of the Alberta conservative movement’s…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon discusses the problem with the concentration of power in the hands of a few tycoons who see no purpose for most human…
Keeping Up The Pressure
Despite their president's avowals that Canada has nothing the U.S. needs, many Americans are discovering (much to their shock, I'm sure) otherwise. As I have written before, Trump's threats to…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 12, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 12, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Former Judges Condemn Trump Administration’s Arrest of Wisconsin JudgeCompetition Bureau takes Canada's Wonderland…
AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? (PART 1)
I just had a piece published by Alberta Views here on hope and optimism and their opposites. As happens with magazine pieces, much changed between writing and publication: the frightening…
Some thoughts on that shocking 36% of Albertans we’re told by a pollster would like the province to separate from Canada
Where there’s smoke, the martyred American president John F. Kennedy famously and accurately observed, there’s often a smoke-making machine. Whatever can be said about the accuracy of the notorious Angus…
Canada’s corporate subsidies mostly enrich shareholders of multinationals
Bay Street, Toronto. Photo by Brian Carson/Flickr. At The Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums Laurent Carbonneau Sutherland House, 2025 Like most s...
day 13: kansas city: baseball and barbecue
Last night, after Allan came back from Gardner's, we weren't in the mood for much of anything, but we did need to eat dinner. I looked up restaurants in the…
day 13: kansas city: baseball and barbecue
Last night, after Allan came back from Gardner's, we weren't in the mood for much of anything, but we did need to eat dinner. I looked up restaurants in the…
The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz
The Beautiful Mess by John PavlovitzMother's Day.For many people, that means flowers and handmade cards and Sunday brunches and waves of laughter. It means celebration and gratitude and warm embraces…
The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz
The Beautiful Mess by John PavlovitzMother's Day.For many people, that means flowers and handmade cards and Sunday brunches and waves of laughter. It means celebration and gratitude and warm embraces…
Leo XIV—a new pope with some new/old ideas
So, an American pope. A first. Now both the world’s most powerful political leader and... The post Leo XIV—a new pope with some new/old ideas first appeared on Views from…
The opposition
#Scheer #opposition #CPC
Conservatives Embracing ‘The Big Lie’
It’s been nearly two weeks since Canadian voters looked warily south of the border and decided collectively that we do not subscribe to MAGAism; that basing our country on fear,…