Boris Kagarlitzki (second from right) appears at a hearing during his trial. Photo courtesy TASS. Below this article we have included Kagarlitsky’s most recent prison letter to his daughter in which he talks about Putin’s cynical use of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack. Renowned Russian intellectual and dissident Boris
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Remembering the ‘year of the Irish’
Statues placed at Toronto’s Ireland Park to represent the arrival of the Irish famine migrants on the city’s waterfront in 1847. Designed by Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie, they were modelled on a similar Famine Memorial in Dublin for which he created seven statues of famine migrants about to embark on
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Rush to ‘Recovery Alberta’ mental health agency sure looks like an ideological drug-treatment hobbyhorse
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government is about to carve thousands of employees and $1.13 billion out of Alberta Health Services to create what looks like a drug-treatment hobbyhorse for a small group of ideologues in the office of Premier Danielle Smith. Soon-to-be Canadian Centre for Recovery Excellence CEO Kym Kaufmann
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: April is Filipino Restaurant Month across Canada
I’ll get back to my Halifax culinary adventures soon (think seafood) but I wanted to jump ahead because April is Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada and, last week, a friend at the Filipino Embassy in Ottawa invited me for the luncheon launch event. The launch was held at Sanduk, which
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Don’t Look!
This morning on my way to work, I was part of a traffic stop/diversion by city police doing a sweep for lapsed licenses/registrations. It went smoothly and I was in and out in about five minutes. The officers who were checking my deets noted my phone mounted to my windscreen/dash
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 2, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Attempted murder is not a priority’: Victims of tossed out cases speak out amid lower Ont. justice funding #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3va4yc89 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tinker Ready discusses how the decision to let COVID-19 spread unabated in the name of “business as usual” has lead to an entirely foreseeable spike in cases of long COVID. Accesswire notes that the carnage from COVID includes an increase in thyroid
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Am At A Loss For Words
Some days, I truly despair, and words fail me. “He’s definitely been chosen by God,” said Marie Zere, a commercial real estate broker from Long Island who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in February outside Washington, D.C. “He’s still surviving even though all these people are coming after him,
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Housing As A Right
Should housing be a right. That is the question. But the real question is what would that mean and how do we make it more than a token right but an actual effective right. In North America we had this mythology that everyone could own their own home. That has
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Discrimination in the Workplace
Ontario employers are prohibited from discrimination in the workplace against any employee. Employers may not discriminate on the basis of – Race – Religion – Citizenship – Gender – Sexual Orientation or Identification – Disability – Age If you are experiencing discrimination in your workplace, you may be entitled to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Powerful stories
Destruction in Gaza following an Israeli bombing raid. Photo courtesy Fars News Agency/Wikimedia Commons. Red lines In his State of the Union address, delivered on March 7, US President Joe Biden signaled an apparent shift in American policy toward the Gaza War—though so far, it has to be said, this
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Latest transfer of 2,000-pound bombs from US to Israel not newsworthy to the New York Times
The New York Times Building in Manhattan. Photo by Haxorjoe/Wikimedia Commons. When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel,” a lot of people cared. Readers of the story posted
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the Lawfare warriors
Who are you going to call? It’s not a Ghostbusters reference – although, the mission is similar: to defeat evil. If you’re Jewish – or if you’re a supporter of Israel and the Jewish community – and you’re being harassed or attacked or vilified or threatened? Then you should call
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Aaron Wherry discusses the deadly-serious consequences of climate denialism which is driven by frivolous rhetoric. And Andre Mayer points out the numerous ways in which the climate breakdown is actually responsible for the increased cost of living which is being used as an
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Fearless
Toronto Police officer facing down the Jew-hating Hamas mob. I love this photo, and how utterly fearless she looks.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 1, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Man switched at birth renews calls for N.L. government to apologize #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/tpbayzyw – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Hits Keep Coming
No doubt the PP crowd on the West Coast is all abuzz over the fact that they will soon enjoy his presence as part of his Axe The Tax tour. No word yet as to whether will be musical accompaniment, but Michael de Adder has some ‘sound ‘ideas in that regard:
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Holy, Holy, Holy
Donald Trump is hawking Bibles. Michael Harris writes: It wasn’t cologne. It wasn’t those $399 Never Surrender gold high-top running shoes. It wasn’t a T-shirt featuring Teflon Don’s mugshot. It wasn’t even dubious steaks, or third-rate wine. It was the Bible. And Pastor Trump was making it available in
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