Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elaine Godfrey writes about Iowa’s disastrous COVID-19 spread as a prime example of what happens when a government chooses to do nothing about…
December 2020
COVID vaccines: Calling the shots
The public-private development of a vaccine for COVID-19 is not designed to prioritize global access. It is designed to maximize profits. Photo by Prasesh Shiwakoti/Unsplash. Before the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed…
Stop your bitching, I’m back.
I know, I promised you something scintillating about Trump yesterday. I lied. I just had more important things to do. I promised myself that I would start anew today, but…
Building An Alternate Universe
There is a long tradition in the United States of former presidents building libraries to contain the history of their presidencies. Donald Trump, Karen Tumulty writes, is doing something entirely…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of December 7, 2020
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of December 7, 2020. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
How Pandemic Life is Changing Transportation for the Better
Traffic is the worst and when people start to regularly work from offices we are bound to see an abundance of traffic. Nobody wants this, yet for the last century…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 7, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 7, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: US DOJ rule change would allow some executions by firing squad and…
The Good Old Days #nlpoli
Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a big Christmas tree in…
The Good Old Days #nlpoli
Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a big Christmas tree in…
The Good Old Days #nlpoli
Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a big Christmas tree in…
Democracy Watch combines Good Intent with an oddly poor understanding of the Canadian Constitution to Ill Effect
Democracy Watch Logo Recently I learned that an organization called Democracy Watch was going to sue the New Brunswick government over its decision to call an early election back in…
Australian state’s four-point plan to eliminate COVID-19 worked; Alberta did the opposite on every count
A few Albertans may still remember Stephen Duckett, the remarkably undiplomatic Australian health economist hired by Premier Ed Stelmach’s Progressive Conservative government to run the then-just-created Alberta Health Services in…
Episode 64: Pandemic, Partisanship, and Post-Secondary Education in Alberta
Melanee Thomas joined Dave Cournoyer for a deep dive into Alberta’s politics during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the relationship between the provincial and federal governments, and how Albertans’ political self-identification…
Remembering the Montreal Massacre
As the days darken, and the pandemic surges, I sometimes have trouble remembering what day of the week it is, let alone the date. But I never forget this date:…
Kenny: Rights and Responsibilities During a Pandemic
Last week when Alberta’s covid infection rate spiked to record highs, the positive-test rate climbed to 10.5%, and doctors across the province begged for more restrictive public health measures to…
North Cowichan Chief Administrative Officer Tops Out At $200,000-Plus
Originally published by https://sixmountains.ca Chief Administrative Officer Ted Swabey earned $195,949 plus $9,870 in expenses — highest in the Municipality of North Cowichan — last year, according to the 2019…
Mark Donnelly performs at rally, claims Canucks firing is censorship
Mark Donnelly, who has been the anthem singer for the Vancouver Canucks NHL hockey team since 2001, performs O Canada at a protest against measures taken by public health authorities…
Covid Journal, December 6, 2020
A couple of stories that explore how lockdown efforts are benefitting some – but not most – people on this planet.
wondering what to do with all that privilege and surplus good luck? try #write4rights 2020
Here we are in the middle of a global pandemic, and I feel (to paraphrase my favourite baseball player) like the luckiest person on the face of the earth.* I’m…