Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 9, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 9, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: U.K. court rules against Johnny Depp in libel action Highly anticipated challenge…
2020
A note to a busy Joe Biden.
It was an impressive speech the other night from Delaware. It was the right tone to take with the Trump supporters. You offered them the olive branch and left it…
Paging Dr. Freud #nlpoli
Moya Greene, head of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Team, told municipal leaders last week that the provincial government spends almost $2.0 billion less on health care than it actually does.…
Paging Dr. Freud #nlpoli
Moya Greene, head of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Team, told municipal leaders last week that the provincial government spends almost $2.0 billion less on health care than it actually does.…
Paging Dr. Freud #nlpoli
Moya Greene, head of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Team, told municipal leaders last week that the provincial government spends almost $2.0 billion less on health care than it actually does.…
U.S. election exposes ‘Triple-E’ Senate myth once and for all as a democratic disaster
Does anyone recall the Reform Party of Canada’s campaign starting in the late 1980s to impose on our country a “Triple-E Senate” – that is to say elected, effective, and,…
The Auditor General’s Report: $1.6 Billion is NOT a Rounding Error
By a miraculous coincidence the Auditor General’s report on the Kenney government’s first year in office landed smack in the middle of the American election. Well, the election is over.…
Sparky party!
Sparky party! pic.twitter.com/5Xa8HGMg2k — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 8, 2020
‘Don’t come unless you have a death wish’: Nurses describe pandemic’s toll on Winnipeg hospital
St. Boniface General Hospital, Manitoba’s second-largest health centre, continues to struggle with outbreaks of COVID-19 on three units. Photo by Mike Deal/Winnipeg Free Press “At this point, I would not…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer another look (PDF) at the growth of income and wealth inequality in the U.S. Andrew Jackson…
Covid Journal, November 8, 2020
A concession speech worth reading; a look at the urban/rural divide with voting; if education is a basic human right, are Ford and Lecce in breach of that commitment?
From Atlantic fisheries to Alberta classrooms, we must confront the denial of settler violence
Two people hold the Mohawk Warrior Society Flag during the All Eyes on Mi’kma’ki Rally in front of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Saskatoon, October 23, 2020. Photo…
first celebrate, then organize: good things that happened in the 2020 u.s. election
United States Vice Presidents After the positive result in the US election, so many of my fellow leftists refuse to find joy in the occasion. They seem determined to not…
What Will The Republicans Do?
In a column for Policy Magazine, Robin Sears asks this question. He points to an article in The New Yorker: A marvellous piece of analysis, by revered American political journalist,…
To listen and to learn in Ottawa.
Yesterday it was noted how quiet the Ottawa scene has been while history is made in America. But we ignore Ottawa at our peril. You have to listen to buzz…
Biden Beats Trump
U.S. election results: Live, real-time election results as Joe Biden set to become president #SNL you shady bitch pic.twitter.com/72vlKD0tsy — ChildishOcean (ALSO VOTE!! BLUE!!) (@Kidfromqueens1) November 8, 2020 This is…
Taoist Political Philosophy – Or, How To Not Make The World Worse, By Good Intentions Gone terribly Wrong
The modern world, and particularly the modern Western world, which has now, as of these past few decades, successfully, and tragically, exported itself to become the basis and norm of…