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Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 22, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 22, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Tribunal dismisses appeal of former Toronto cop who was fired after tweeting workplace harassment allegations ‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Is Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter Trump’s historic hush money trial begins with jury selection
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bill Maher – I Think He Is Starting to Get It.
The queering of our culture needs to stop. It has flown under the radar as “inclusion” and “diversity” but its goal is neither. Queer identity is an identity without an essence, it exists in opposition to every norm in society. Some norms in society DO need changing, but not all
Continue readingAlberta Politics: How did Danielle Smith know about an anonymous letter alleging dirty deeds at the city of Edmonton before it arrived?
Albertans are being asked to believe the provincial government doesn’t keep copies of every piece of correspondence it receives, including some it formally acts upon. Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). To say this strains credulity understates the matter considerably. Yet this is precisely what Alberta Premier
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: April is the Cruelest Month
A few snowflakes this morning, but the ponds at the Technoparc were clear and the geese were cruising. Still, spring seems a long way off,,,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: It’s About Over-Extraction
The Liberals say that their budget is about restoring generational fairness. Some economists say that the problem is over-extraction. Evan Dyer writes: “Income matters less than it used to. Access to secure housing matters so much more,” said Paul Kershaw, a professor at the UBC School of Population and Public
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Support for Ukraine and Israel
(And read to the end for a Trump fart joke!) Today I was very glad to see the US support for Ukraine and for Israel approved by the House — now only was it great to see the aid approved itself, but also it was a demonstration that Trump and
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: Sea Smoke Restaurant and Bar in Halifax
For lunch I walked over to another spot on my recommended list, on the Halifax waterfront at Bishop’s Landing a stone’s throw from The Bicycle Thief: Sea Smoke Restaurant and Bar. Unlike my late night dinner at The Bicycle Thief, it was daylight and I was shown to a cozy table
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the Israel-haters embrace terror tactics
The anti-Israel side is getting more aggressive, experts and police agencies warn. And, now, some groups are openly embracing terror groups and their tactics – and becoming far more radical. This week, Western democracies were provided with more evidence. On Monday, Chicago’s O’Hare airport was shut down by anti-Israel and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Absolute State of the CBC – Unbalanced, Biased, and Incurious
Don’t believe me, go check it out yourself. Try searching up the Cass Report, WPATH, or the Tavistock Clinic. The memory hole is real over in CBC land.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Mnusical interlude
Iva Olo – Remnants
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Cass Review and the WPATH SOC
The Cass Review draws some astonishing conclusions about the WPATH Standards of Care (SOC). More or less, the basic upshot of the Cass Review's analysis is that the SOC is "based on shaky evidence". They attempt to buttress this by applying the AGREE II framework to assess various SOC like frameworks
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens and Sean Tucker discuss how the corporate fossil fuel sector is blocking workers from pursuing sustainable jobs as part of a just transition. And Kate Yoder writes that there’s an entirely plausible basis to hold big oil accountable for
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 19, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge orders shared custody of pet dog under new B.C. law #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4xz7j6k5 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: They Sing As One.
Quite predictably, the rich have reacted with great bitterness to the new budget, in particular the part requiring them to pay more tax on capital gains that exceed $250 thousand. To hear their tune, sung in unison, financial Armageddon is upon the country. A chorus of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Let’s Talk About Data Quality For a Moment
The recently released Cass Review Final Report (Cass Review) has criticized the absence of “high quality evidence” supporting the use of puberty blockers to treat transgender youth (as well as in other areas of transgender research). The systemic reviews performed as part of the Cass Review applied a “modified” version
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