Canadian military support for nukes must be met with popular resistance
No nuclear weapons have been based in Canada since 1984, but we actively participate in the nuclear defense of North America not only through membership in NATO, but also in…
November 2020
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Armine Yalnizyan discusses the prospect of a shift in how we approach our economy as our usual monetary and fiscal policy assumptions have…
all eyes on the united states: election day and beyond: the dark side laid bare
Election day in the U.S. tomorrow. My American family and friends are all quietly freaking out. The whole world is quietly freaking out. The massive turnout through mail-in voting and…
Awash In Morons
The gloves are off between Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci. Venay Menon writes: To be America’s top infectious disease specialist right now must be maddening. This pandemic is like an…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of November 2, 2020
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of November 2, 2020. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Learn Faster by Knowing Less
People learn when they can experiment with whatever they are working with, be it something physical like carpentry or something mental like philosophy. Teachers can even encourage faster learning by…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 2, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 2, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: This RCMP corporal has been on medical leave for 17 years. Could…
My latest: why Trump should lose
They’ll tell you. When you talk to American voters – and this writer recently has, hundreds of times, from New Hampshire to Florida to California – you’ll be told three…
Emperor Trump is naked.
Does it take a child to recognize what we all know about Emperor Trump? If he parades before the world, naked, unadorned with privilege or power? Will he be the…
The hard truth of reconciliation #nlpoli
Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock ImagesReconciliation is a very popular word these days. It comes out of the commission appointed to investigate what happened to Indigenous people in…
The hard truth of reconciliation #nlpoli
Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock ImagesReconciliation is a very popular word these days. It comes out of the commission appointed to investigate what happened to Indigenous people in…
The hard truth of reconciliation #nlpoli
Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Reconciliation is a very popular word these days. It comes out of the commission appointed to investigate what happened to Indigenous people…
Say what? Conservative Alberta MP’s riding association buys pro-life transit ads in Vancouver
Regardless of exactly how Garnett Genuis’s Vancouver bus advertisement asking how there can be too many children was paid for, the Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan MP well known for his vocal…
O’Toole says some good stuff
Watching the vicious political battle taking place south of the border, it is refreshing to see signs of a more civilized political culture up here. Such signs were illustrated last…
Stoney Hill revealed: from perilous bluffs to churning waters
Second in an occasional series on the Six Mountains Anyone who has stood atop the bluffs of Stoney Hill Regional Park and admired the views of Salt Spring Island has…
U.S. Election – TC’s Final Call
Three Possible OutcomesThe U.S. election is imminent. This post represents my final assessment.Recently anti-Trump Republican Bill Kristol laid out three election scenarios as alternate Wednesday, November 4th headlines:1. “Trump loses…
U.S. Election – TC’s Final Call
Three Possible OutcomesThe U.S. election is imminent. This post represents my final assessment.Recently anti-Trump Republican Bill Kristol laid out three election scenarios as alternate Wednesday, November 4th headlines:1. “Trump loses…
The politics of cultural despair
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences…
U.S. Election – TC’s Final Call
Three Possible Outcomes The U.S. election is imminent. This post represents my final assessment. Recently anti-Trump Republican Bill Kristol laid out three election scenarios as alternate Wednesday, November 4th headlines:…
Deep Green Homes, Architecture & Building Design
Green transition? We remain, mainly, lost. Case in point: the talk linked below from the University of Minnessota is one more example, from the numerous examples I have seen of…