Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 19, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 19, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Toronto judge was wrong to toss sex assault case because woman refused to testify via Zoom, court rules How could a serial killer prey on Toronto’s Gay Village for so long? A landmark
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Actor Within.
We were puzzling the other day as to what training our current leaders had that prepared them for their political roles. If all you have to base your conclusion on is their set-piece biography, the answers are not all that easy to deduce. It is therefore best to do some
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Challenging the Despotism Paradigm – Democracy in Animals (T.Roper & L.Conradt)
Neo liberal capitalistic societies tend to promote narratives that reinforce their preferred system of rules and expectations. Examining counter examples and counter-narratives is a necessary task of those who not only want to change society, but also for those who wish to improve the societal conditions in which they exist.
Continue readingScripturient: Why Master Sun Matters Today
Master Sun was a wise man. So wise that his famous treatise, The Art of War (aka The Art of Warfare), has been read, written about, critiqued, and discussed for roughly 2,400 years. It has been used as a model of strategy and leadership for the military, for business, romance,
Continue readingIn-Sights: R.I.P. NDP principles
Shortly after June 30, 2017, John Horgan revealed his true self and buried BC NDP political perspectives alongside its principles. He is duplicating BC Liberal policies in important matters.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Washington Post Calls for Doug Ford to Resign
Doug Ford needs to go – now. Washington Post columnist and Ottawa U. professor, David Moscrop makes a compelling argument for an immediate change in provincial leadership. As Ontario Premier Doug Ford sat down at a Friday afternoon news conference to announce his plans to extend the province’s covid-19
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: A Man of Half-Measures
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”—Winston Churchill. Lives and… When he’s not on the front line fighting covid, Dr Joe Vipond is busy analyzing the data and
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I got the shot
Booked my AstraZenica shot. Had the sweats, nausea, headaches and an unsettling surge of anxiety. However, when I turned off the Justin Trudeau press conference and got the shot, I felt way better. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 18, 2021
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Two takes on whiteness
shakemyheadhollow Some decades ago on a daytime TV talk show – I’ll never find it – the African-American public intellectual, Cornel West, was seated next to some Ku Klux Klan members, and the host said something about the KKK representing white people. West gestured at the white supremacists next to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Over 25 years, world’s wealthiest 5% behind over one-third of global emissions growth: Study
The wealthiest one percent of the world’s population is responsible for emitting more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorest 50 percent of humanity combined. Photo by Chalo Garcia/Pexels. As world leaders prepare for this November’s United Nations Climate Conference in Scotland, a new report from the Cambridge
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: On Cynicism
John Lennon was a millionaire, though he talked about having no possessions; Thomas Jefferson had slaves; and Martin Luther King Jr. was a philanderer, true enough, but I think it is a bad idea to mock and attack people who are doing, or have done, generally very positive, important things
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Conspiracy Theory
Anyone with a functioning brain should immediately stop using the term conspiracy theory. It only shuts down debate and precludes intelligent, critical thought. There are facts, based in evidence, and there are perceived facts that are contradicted by evidence. There are various theories and views, and the intelligent and democratic
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: It’s a Matter of Supply and Demand
Pity the United States where they’re awash in Covid-19 vaccines but can’t drum up demand. The proportion of the population who’ve received at least one dose is almost twice as high as in Canada, and it’s 10 times higher for the fully vaccinated. The vaccine supply in most states has
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Freedom of Speech: What Is To Be Done?
What is to be done about the issue of freedom of speech, and the current, deeply ominous trend of the closing down of Western society, and the inevitably linked rise of authoritarianism? The first thing to be done is to remind the people that there are, as Chomsky has said,
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Coming Apart at the Seams at Queen’s Park?
Tomorrow the eyes of political Canada are ready to be fixed on Ottawa, with the presentation of the first Federal Budget in over two years. With all the implications for the next Federal election (whenever it comes), it would be extremely hard to pry the attention of Canadians from what
Continue readingIn This Corner: Sorry, Ernest, but I just don’t get you
While scrolling through the TV listings last week (I spent almost as much time looking for something to watch as actually watching), I came upon a new Ken Burns documentary on PBS. (Insert nerd joke here.) I love documentaries, and a Ken Burns doc is an event. Burns is arguably
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Lozinski discusses the confusing and conflicting messages from Scott Moe which are making it difficult for well-intentioned residents to know what exactly they’re supposed to do. Christo Aivalis weighs in on Doug Ford’s choice to attack civil rights rather than taking
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