The Top Doctor Who Aced the Coronavirus Test
Originally published by the New York Times Credit- Jackie Dives for The New York Times Dr. Bonnie Henry kept the disease in check in British Columbia without harsh enforcement methods.…
June 2020
Talking Tackling Racism on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed tackling racism in Canada, what governments need…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Stephen Long writes that one of the key economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic has been to push people into underemployment. And CBC…
The Divergence of the Right
The last couple of weeks in the United States has been something to witness and honestly, witness feels like the right word for it. It has been equally disturbing and…
Muhammad Ali Gives His Stance On The Vietnam War
As we face the immense changes and challenges of today a look back to this 60’s interview with Muhammad Ali and Dick Cavett seems worthwhile.
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of June 8, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of June 8, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun…
‘Policing Black Lives’ author on confronting Canada’s historical amnesia, Black expendability, and the path forward
Justice For Regis – Not Another Black Life rally and march in Toronto, May 30, 2020. Photo by Jason Hargrove/Flickr. The murder of 46 year-old George Floyd at the hands…
New Books from AK Press at Leftwingbooks.net
A few new titles just came in from AK Press, hot off the presses! (To see a complete list of AK Press titles click here — remember, we’re the cheapest…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of June 8, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 8, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: European Court rules Nestlé can’t call its plant-based burgers ‘incredible’ DOJ urges…
What To Do With The Genie?
Linda McQuaig writes that radical measures are required to get us through this pandemic. And, she argues, they should be adopted when the pandemic is over. But powerful interests are…
Torkil Lausen Interviewed on Historic.ly
Torkil Lauesen is a longtime anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989, he was full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements…
New Zealand is COVID-19 Free
After a very well managed shutdown of the country, New Zealand is free of COVID-19 and people are able to live as they did before. The country had a strict,…
Why blacks need to be extra careful about contracting Covid-19….
I’m not in favour of forced lockdown measures, anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time knows that. I just read an incredible Guardian article that…
Covid Journal, June 8, 2020
Hell’s Advent Calendar.
No, Elvis Has Not Left the Building.
Elvis is having a rebirth on social media and, in these times, his is a comforting voice. Let’s begin with “In the Ghetto.” Couple that with The King’s tribute to…
Thanks to BLM demonstrations lockdown measures are now just guidelines…
Worried about meeting up with your brother and sister for a backyard BBQ? Afraid of getting a ticket for joining up with friends at a park and not staying two…
Words to die by
This comes from a person who got it from a person who got it from a place unknown. Apologies to the original creator but I think it’s worth a look.
Hippocratic oath for policing
Sgt. Jeremiah P. Johnson of the Darien Connecticut Police Department responded to a discussion about the policing industry having its own Hippocratic Oath. Given the extent of misconduct now revealed…
Why #DeleteFacebook
Not because Mark Zuckerberg is a self-entitled white-privileged frat boy who based Facebook on an app he developed called Facemash to rate students “hotness”. Not because of Facebook’s Predatory Business…