Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Gurney writes about what continues to be a woeful response to COVID in Ontario among other provinces, while Jason Herring reports…
December 2021
What Went Wrong?
I have been thinking a great deal about the recent shootings at Oxford High School in Michigan that saw four students killed and seven injured, including one teacher. Despite very…
Plastic Words
Andrew Nikifiouk writes that we refuse to face the cascading crises in front of us: Two weeks ago, I gave a talk at the University of Victoria arguing that our…
Do Not Go Gentle.
It would appear that conservative leader Erin O’Toole does not intend to “Go gentle into that good night.” He does not seem to be Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ sort of…
Why It’s Important to Remember the Montreal Massacre
It's been 32 years since their young lives ended so suddenly and so brutally. If they had lived some of them could could be grandmothers today, with daughters attending the…
Pay attention to MLA Dan Williams’ attacks on Alberta Health Services – he’s likely saying exactly what Jason Kenney thinks
Peace River MLA Dan Williams’ member’s statement in the Legislature last Thursday attacking Alberta Health Services leadership for trying to require employees to be vaccinated against the disease that has…
It’s only class war when it looks like we might hit back
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread” –Anatole France We are…
The Communist Family
From each according to his abilityTo each according to his needs* If you did not know the source of this you could easily mistake it for a description of the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 6, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge tosses Peel cop’s gun case over racial profiling. It’s the fourth time a judge has rejected the officer’s evidence via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Is America’s Radical Right Rallying for a New Offensive?
Conservative extremism isn’t easy. It’s exhausting although it’s always rewarding when you can tilt an entire country’s political keel. You know it’s working when leaders such as Florida governor, Rick…
The Disaffected Lib Mk. II 2021-12-06 13:13:00
Could there be a Litmus Test for democracy? Many years ago, the CBC’s Patrick Watson produced a multi-part series on democracy, what it meant to this people or that and…
Oh Dear, the Institute of Hate.
(Remember, when you do the hand thing, keep the hand tilted a bit) They’re your typical radical right outfit – anti-immigrant, anti-vaxx, white nationalist/supremacy. And now the German government might…
This Is No Party at All. Maxwell Stands Alone.
Chris Hedges thinks there are a few people missing at the Ghyslaine Maxwell trial: Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, former New Mexico Bill Richardson, former…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Supriya Dwivedi writes about the Groundhog Day-style loop we’re trapped in due to a pandemic which is being allowed to continue and evolve.…
December 6th: it’s been two generations
I confess to being at loss for words this year as I commemorate the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique in Montréal. So much stuff — so many incidents of male…
December 6th: it’s been two generations
I confess to being at loss for words this year as I commemorate the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique in Montréal. So much stuff — so many incidents of male…
No There
Republicans have been obstructionist for a long time. Paul Krugman writes that last week’s attempt to shut down the government is merely another in a long line of manufactured crises:…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of December 6, 2021
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 6, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 6, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Begins in the Shadow of Jeffrey Epstein DOJ Accuses…