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…
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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:…
Talking Canada’s COVID Vaccine Donations with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Canada’s donation of COVID-19 vaccines to developing…
Simran Bakshi on Family Law
Spouses reminded that there are no free lunches when it comes to Property acquired during a Common Law Relationship: The Court of Appeal in Walters v Nusseiri, 2020 ONCA 615…
Ending the Gender Gap in Transportation
There is a gender gap in our cities and it’s all thanks to car-centric design. Everybody knows that cars destroy urban centers and cause a lot of harm to public…
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…
Simon sets a standard.
This is a mean trick to play on a useful person. Frankly I could care less that Mary Simon is the first aboriginal person on the job. It is a…
What possessed a prominent social conservative lawyer to hire a private investigator to follow a judge around?
What were John Carpay and the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms he heads trying to achieve when they hired a private detective to snoop on the chief justice of…
Hitchhiking imperialism: The case of Scandinavia shows how Europe shared the spoils of colonialism
For many of the most successful imperialist countries, empire was just not worth the trouble. from Pocket https://ift.tt/3kaPu9S via IFTTT
July 12: The murdering bastards we call capitalists
I’m pretty old. Some day soon I’m going to die. I look forward to it. Our lives are governed by thieving, murderous, greedy people. And that came to me with…
Understaffed and Unprepared
Canada’s pandemic early warning system was not ready to meet the threat when Covid-19 hit our shores early last year. Canada’s Global Public Health Information System languished during the Liberals’…
Justin Trudeau and the Countdown to the Election
It was great to get back to Canada, and see Justin Trudeau having a White Spot lunch with his NDP friend John Horgan. And looking so good on the eve…
The Peace and Justice Project with Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers
Habibti Please interviewed Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers in advance of ‘Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled,’ an upcoming event hosted by Egypt Watch and Jeremy…
Council Wants to Give Away Our Parkland to Strangers
On July 29, 2020, Councillor Jeffrey (the Queen of the Unlimited Expense Account), seconded by Councillor Hamelin made a motion to give away a very large piece of Harbourview Park…
On mood disorders
Summer is the time for reruns. And when your local political columnist keeps repeating the same patently false assertions about public opinion in the face of actual evidence, well… How…
Narrowing Our Focus
There was a time when we had the luxury of worrying over where the Soviets were positioning their tank armies or how fast their newest bombers flew. We had time…
A Disturbing Following in Manitoba
We are living in crazy days folks. I’ve seen a lot in my career in politics, but it seems that this year things keep happening that manage to catch me…
The Transformation of Digital Spaces and Digital Life
Responding to a survey: Please tell us how you imagine this transformation of digital spaces and digital life will take place: What reforms or initiatives may have the biggest impact?…
Shaping Our Kids’ Future
It’s hard to scrounge up money for climate change adaptation when you need those tens of billions for more important things, pipelines. Just look at Justin Trudeau’s eager beavers driving…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian draws from Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics to make the case that plagues and the associated responses are invariably…