Professors and Bias
A Reader wrote: I have seen the shift in politics over the last two years and find myself fundamentally disagreeing with many of my professor’s views more often than not.…
August 2021
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 3, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Syrian Doctor Indicted in Germany for Crimes Against Humanity via The New York Times Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet08022021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
The Hot Nasties: get your tunes here!
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This week’s Sparky: no-jab jerks
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friends and family reunion road trip: day eleven: mostly waiting to see a vet, with some family time
Yesterday Cookie woke up with what appeared to be an eye infection. I was concerned that it might be conjunctivitis, which is highly contagious. We had a full day of…
My latest: to vaccinate or not?
To vaccinate, or not to vaccinate? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With all apologies due to Shakespeare and Hamlet, that isn’t the question. Or…
How The Right Defines Freedom
Lots of Canadians used to winter in Florida. Not so much these days. Florida is not a healthy place to spend your time. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, has a lot…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of August 3, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of August 3, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 3, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 3, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Residential school survivors demand Sask. court release Catholic compensation document Federal law…
Welcome to the UCP’s Alberta, where everything is going sideways in a hurry
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Photo courtesy the Government of Alberta/Flickr. It was weird. Here was Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in June, explaining to incredulous reporters that he has never supported…
Emancipation Day?
For a guy who pays close attention to politics in this country, I should admit I’m embarrassed. I was so busy celebrating Simcoe Day in Ontario I had no idea…
Unifor uses Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney to target ‘the new 2021 O’Toole’
With election fever running high throughout the land, Unifor’s new third-party political advertisement started showing up on social media yesterday and it was too good not to share in the…
I’m wierd.
I planned to write my blog on Sunday night. But I, who never sleep from 7 to 12, was out cold from 7 to 12. That’s what happens to us…
Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight – Devin Zane Shaw [ThreeWayFight]
By Devin Zane Shaw The seven theses I propose here were first published as part of a preface to T. Derbent’s German Communist Resistance 1933–1945, published by Foreign Languages Press…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jonathan Howard writes that the recognition of higher COVID-19 risks in adults has been used as a means of misleadingly minimizing the risks…
Solidarity with Cuba more crucial than ever
Protesters attend a pro-government rally in Havana, July 11, 2021. Photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa. The United States is escalating its sixty-year war on Cuba. Both Democrats and Republicans are braying…
Party Of None: Many People Have Been Asking
Well, no, I just made that up, but for those of a certain faction, the following should set their hearts and minds at ease. Guess this hale and hardy young…
Another WTF Were They Smoking Moment From Council
I read this in CollingwoodToday: At Monday night’s council meeting, Coun. Deb Doherty got support from her council colleagues to ask staff to investigate the feasibility of creating a Healing Forest…
Danger signs on the road to a post-pandemic future
A post-pandemic austerity regime, coupled with the intensifying climate crisis, will demand new and bold forms of organizing, writes CD columnist John Clarke. Photo by Santiago Sito/Flickr. In my April…
The Power Elite: What Every Thinking Person Needs To Know
C. Wright Mills’, The Power Elite, is unquestionably one of the most important books ever written in sociology, social theory, social philosophy, social psychology or political-economy – and it of…