Wise Law’s Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of December 20, 2021
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December 2021
Not A Government In Waiting
The Conservative caucus is not a collection of happy campers. Althia Raj writes: The brewing tensions of the past three months, since the Conservatives’ disappointing election loss, came to a…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 20, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 20, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Unusual Request: Allow Anonymous Defense Witnesses Lawyer accused of threat…
Del Duca’s dubious desire.
The Toronto Star is all aflutter about liberal leader Steven Del Duca’s promise to resign as premier if he does not immediately change Ontario voting to ranked ballots. It strikes…
Chaotic implementation of free rapid COVID test distribution shows a government that can’t plan, or doesn’t
If the announcement last week of plans to distribute a half million free rapid COVID-19 tests to Albertans starting on Friday was supposed to give the Kenney Government a boost,…
Another Term You’ll Have to Learn – "Breakthrough"
Breakthrough describes Covid infections among the fully vaccinated. It’s our new reality. In the United States, so-called breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated — were less common before Omicron,…
A New One for the Climate Books – "Atmospheric Lakes"
By now most of us are aware of atmospheric rivers that usually take the form of a rapid succession of deluges that can cause flash flooding and widespread devastation of…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
A choir is singing something vaguely classical on the radio. Rudy the rescue dog is chilling in front of the Christmas tree. And the Soapbox family is almost ready for…
How Many Canadians Will the Con Anti-Vaxxers Kill?
It's hard to get away from it. The sinking feeling that we've been here before. Two long years ago. The feeling that all that suffering went for nothing, and that…
Plague Update: Sports Canary
CBC reported this morning there are 5 fewer NHL teams, yet the league is trying to soldier on instead of responding to the writing on the wall. What's up with…
Is It Time to Show Anti-Vaxxers the Door?
The British Columbia government’s Covid update page has some powerful data. To date, 89.2 per cent of eligible adults have received two vaccine shots. 16 per cent also have had…
Saturday Photo: Christmas Lights
Lots of lights around here this year. I think people are fed up with darkness. This is my little contribution.
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dr. Katharine Smart highlights the crucial choices which need to be made to avoid a calamitous fifth COVID-19 wave, while Chelsea Nash…
Nader On Trump
The outline for a fascist takeover in the United States is clear for all to see. Ralph Nader writes: Getting ready for 2024, the Georgia GOP legislature has stripped the…
Omelas and the moral catastrophe of climate change
An illustrated map of the city of Omelas, the setting of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, a work of short fiction by science fiction writer Ursula K. Le…
Did the PM Do Nothing?
In the roll-out of Justin Trudeau’s recent interview with Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star, he complains about what he calls ‘casual cynicism.’ He says it comes from the left…
We won.
We have beaten Bernier: it’s official, now. No appeal. Thanks to the only @DaisyGrp folks who made it happen – John, Jon, Zach, Rob, Logan, Emily, Jan, Ben. — Warren…
Pfizer Says…
Do you think you can stand another three years of Covid? Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) on Friday forecast that the COVID-19 pandemic would not be behind us until 2024 and said…
2024 – America’s Night of the Long Knives?
Three retired US generals have taken to the Washington Post warning of a potential coup in 2024. A number of today’s serving generals, they fear, could go rogue. The signs…
MP Leah Gazan introduces UBI bill to House of Commons
While not a solution to all of the problems of Canadian political economy, a truly universal UBI program does have potential to increase the quality of life for many of…