July 2021

Short Term Politics

Robert Asselin writes that we have been cursed by what he calls “short term politics:” It’s my belief that the professionalization of partisan politics — by which I refer to…

Promises, promises.

Christmas might come early this year. Prime minister Justin Trudeau is so obviously weighing the pros and cons of just when to call the election. Summer elections are rather unpredictable.…

The Last Thing

Grief is an oscillation between want and have, between need and want, between here and gone. It does strange things to a person. When my mother died I kept saying…

Hell on Earth. It’s Arrived.

“Climate change has loaded the weather dice against us,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy. “These extremes are something…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kit Yates offers a reminder of ignoring the exponential growth of COVID-19 as the Delta variant puts many jurisdictions back on that…

Legal tweet of the Day: July 13, 2021

#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Lawyer files misconduct complaint after private investigator hired to follow Manitoba chief justice via CBC Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet07132021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…

Under The Dome

Rebecca Gordon reports that life under the heat dome is pretty nasty: In San Francisco, we’re finally starting to put away our masks. With 74% of the city’s residents over…

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