Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of September 11, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of September 11, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
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Why is Britain Moving Towards a 2-Child Policy?
While a royal family can embrace a third child, Britain is instituting a de facto 2-child policy for the poor. This is classist, racist, anti-feminist, misogynist, anti-human, inhumane and it…
The Decarie Report 2017-09-11 10:26:00
Yes. I know I have said twice that I am taking a break for two weeks. But the Saturday edition of the irving press was infuriating for its disregard of…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 11, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 11, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: OCA upholds contempt finding against lawyer | Law Times Prominent Republicans Urge…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – George Monbiot offers his suggestion for a new political narrative to build a better world than the one currently dominated by neoliberalism: (B)y…
On Systemic Police Racism
I have avoided writing on incidents of police brutality and racism for some time now, not because they are on the decline (check out some of their recent antics, and…
Drowning In Ignorance
Just before Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida, Rush Limbaugh raged at climate scientists. Paul Krugman writes: On Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh accused weather scientists of inventing Irma’s threat for political and…
Another rain drawing
Surrendering to Zen Brush app Sumi style storms. Filed under: art
This week’s column: an open letter to Messrs. Trudeau and Morneau
Dear Messrs. Trudeau and Morneau: So, small businesses. Almost twelve years ago, I started one. It was quite a thing. Before that, I’d been special assistant to Jean Chretien on…
Saving Knowledge From Going Extinct
Ultimology is a new field of thought which may help is in the future when we need it the most and don’t realize it. It’s the study of of extinct…
Well, Well, Well
Quelle surprise. H/t Tomthunkit Recommend this Post
Summoners War game Tips & Tricks
Boom Beach has an interesting app. The gamer, regulating an unnamed military seeks to liberate a stunning archipelago from the evil Blackguard, an army that has actually inhabited the area…
The reluctant reformers!
It must have confused Justin Trudeau’s campaign team in the 2015 federal election when they realized that Thomas Mulcair and his New Democratic Party were running to the political right…
Andrew Scheer’s Shameful Flim-Flam Act
We know that Andrew Scheer is a sinister religious fanatic. We know that he is a crass misogynist, and an anti-gay and anti-Muslim bigot.We know that he is a creepy…
Outraged when Rebel was shut out, Alberta Legislature Press Gallery won’t help with role it said government must drop
PHOTOS: The Alberta Legislature … no sign of the Press Gallery. Below: Retired journalist Heather Boyd, author of last year’s report on journalist accreditation at the Alberta Legislature; Cheryl Oates,…
"Not" Racist WCAI Leadership And Supporters Finding It Unusually Difficult To Actually NOT Be Racist
Yesterday Jesse Wielenga had been scheduled to be holding a rally in Winnipeg. A week or so before the event was to take place, Wielenga suggested that he and the…
Edmonton Election Candidate Update: 34 days left until E-Day
Photo: Edmonton City Hall in the cold and dark depths of winter. There are only 34 days left until Edmontonians go to the polls to vote in this year’s municipal…
One NDPer’s Position on the Leadership Contest
Photo by Alex Tétreault The NDP leadership race is best described as a marathon. There have been nine debates, countless meet-and-greets, and numerous telephone and digital town halls. All those…
Archbishop Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence on Myanmar’s genocidal violence against Rohingya Muslims
This week, retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu released a letter condemning fellow Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s continuing silence on the genocidal violence being perpetrated against Rohingya…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 34: Dear Earth …
Dear Earth: This is a difficult letter for us to write, but something has to be said. Are you mad at us? I mean, seriously, seriously angry? It sure seems…