It isn’t the ice on the moguls that endanger our prime minister on his downhill run. It is the heat he generates among his detractors. Even the pollsters are noting that he is having trouble attracting voters among men. In a recent poll quoted by Susan Delacourt in the Toronto
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Diagolon and Trolling: How To Minimize Platforming the Far-Right and Instead Provide Context
Over the years there has been a lot of discussion about the danger of platforming right wing extremists. It's an issue that I've wrestled with for years myself here on the blog and also on Twitter. On the one hand I've always believed that it was important to share information
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman faces over 30 charges in rental fraud investigation on Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3LE5mPW – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The lord of chaos
“We’re Number One.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Two decades ago, I sabotaged my career at the New York Times. It was a conscious choice. I had spent seven years in the Middle East, four of them as the Middle East Bureau Chief. I was an Arabic speaker. I believed, like
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: You Do NOT Roll Over For Fascists
So, on Saturday, Jen Gerson published a column in the Globe and Mail titled “The Backlash Against Drag Artists Is Unfair, But It’s No Mystery Why It’s Happening”. I read it on Saturday, it’s taken me the last couple of days to calm down enough to write a response to
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Why They Hate Trudeau
There are lots of Canadians who have a viscerally negative reaction to the name Trudeau — father and son. Susan Delacourt writes: Justin Trudeau has now said it twice — there are Canadians, he admits, who won’t believe him, no matter what he says. Who are these Canadians? They are
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Never-ending Depravity of Pierre Poilievre
I always knew that Pierre Poilievre would take us to a very dark and very dirty place. I knew that he's a cold cruel Con who gets his kooky thrills by destroying things rather than creating them. A ghastly bully who enjoys the pain of others. I knew that his creepy
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Twenty years ago
…Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Poilievre’s Patience Pales.
It looks like the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in parliament has lost it. His frustration is obvious. If he is ever going to sit in the prime minister’s office, the best chance is if there is an election in the next five months. In politics, we say he
Continue readingAlberta Politics: ‘Tylenot’ is here at last, premier and health minister proclaim, just in time for no one to want to buy the stuff
Ridiculed for their weirdly incompetent response to last fall’s shortage of children’s fever medication, which has ended up costing Albertans $80 million for 750,000 bottles of a non-standard product that can’t be bought off the shelf, Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government decided to brazen it out instead. NDP Children’s
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Latest. Yum.
New one. Been there? Will be at show at @thepilot_to April 3! pic.twitter.com/trCJ5YpkXO — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 20, 2023
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates March 21, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 20, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: How Donald Trump Would Be Arrested #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3yPATqm – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 20, 2023
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Very Bad Place
Michael Harris writes that populism is destroying our politics: Opposition politics has always been the process of casting the appropriate lights and shadows over the other guy’s record—and the facts. No surprise there. The job of opposition is to oppose, so the characterization of incumbent governments has almost never been
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of March 20, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 20, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Canadian regulator seizes assets of Toronto branch of Silicon Valley Bank More than 22,000 arrested in Iran’s protests pardoned, judiciary chief says DoNotPay doesn’t live up to its billing as a ‘robot lawyer,’
Continue readingThings Are Good: Open Source, 3D Printed, Pollution Monitoring
Efforts to monitor pollution levels around the world aren’t new, but what is new is a system created by MIT’s Senseable City Lab that anyone can make. Called Flatburn, the system is designed to be put on a vehicle to monitor pollution levels throughout a city, which will provide more
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Bakhmut and the limits of historical parallels
Photo by the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army showing a destroyed Bakhmut during the winter of February 2023. Photo courtesy the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Facebook/Wikimedia Commons. The media loves historical parallels. They can supercharge an argument through their suggestion that history might repeat itself. They are also emotionally
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