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Legal Tweet of the Day: May 25, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: GordonSondland, key impeachment witness sues Pompeo over $1.8 million in unpaid legalfees via CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
This is a massive scandal
Just unbelievable. Thread. Thread 1/6 Feds @PrivyCouncilCA conceal 992,000 records on pandemic mismanagement, Commons committee told. “Who in gov’t is responsible?” https://t.co/wdS0SQ7xI7 @DonDavies @Steve_B_Lucas @GovCanHealth @CanadianPM @PattyHajdu #cdnpoli So far,…
Erin O’Toole and his Foul Foreign Collaborators
From the moment Erin O'Toole seized control of the Conservative party, I have watched his attack ads with a growing sense of horror, and revulsion. Horror because of the way…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich offers some lessons we need to draw from the coronavirus pandemic – including the recognition that while billionaires won’t save…
I’m a former Jewish Federation CEO—and I oppose Israel’s actions against Palestinians
Separation wall between Israel and the West Bank near Jerusalem. Photo by Mazur Travel/Shutterstock. The last ten years of my career were spent running Jewish communities as an executive in…
what i’m reading: true story by kate reed petty
Kate Reed Petty’s True Story is one of the most impressive debut novels you’ll ever read. It is both a riveting page-turner and a narrative puzzle, twisting and turning in…
More Lessons From COVID
COVID should have taught us many lessons. Andrew Nikiforuk has enumerated 10 of them. Robert Reich has added another 8. Here are three of the most important: 1. Workers are…
We’re Doomed. Doomed, I tell you.
While walking our dog recently, we encountered another couple “our age” (somewhere between 65 and 90) also walking their dog. While the two pets sniffed and frolicked, we chatted with…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 25, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 25, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: How a workplace investigation at York University has left this Black professor…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of May 25, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of May 25, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Happy Victoria Day
Happy Victoria Day! It is amazing how much difference a year makes. This time last May Canada was still coming to terms with what fighting Covid-19 would look like (even…
Tomorrow! Tune in to hear about the #C10 disaster!
@kinsellawarren, @timothydenton and Daniel Bernhard from @friendscb will be our expert panelists this Tuesday evening on #UnpublishedTV with host @EdHandMedia, as we dig into Bill C-10 and its impact on…
Post-Covid Educational Reform
I try to restrain any excitement that bubbles up over the prospect that education will be different when all this ends, assuming it will end. Teachers have suddenly had to…
Hedges on Israel – No Surprises There
Chris Hedges is an outspoken, full throated supporter of Palestine and its people. You won’t find a shred of neutrality in him but he would say exactly the same about…
It’ll Take More Than Solar Panels and Electric Cars
At some level most of us probably know that solar panels and electric cars won’t be enough to avert a climate catastrophe. Yet they do appeal to our inner “lazy…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jenna Gettings et al. study the massive effect masking and improved ventilation have in reducing the spread of the coronavirus in elementary schools.…
As Long As They’re Here, They Might as Well Make Themselves Useful.
Next month, the US will release a report on everything (almost) the government knows about UFOs, now called UAPs or Unmanned Aerial Phenomenon. The report is expected to include scores…
New Titles Now Available at LeftWingBook.net!
Not Without Laughter The Souls of Black Folk Full Surrogacy Now The Selected Works of Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Autobiography of…
A Fine Day For The Stupid
Continuing with a theme, I found these videos of more stupid people, this group enjoying yesterday’s fine weather in Toronto. While thousands of parents were lined up with their kids…