More Musings on Shakespeare
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (edited by Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, Penguin Books, 2002) has a short but insightful essay on the texts of Shakespeare that illustrates the choices…
2021
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 7, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: ‘There Was a Big Battle in Here’: Lawyers Tour Capitol as a Crime Scene via The New York Times – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Circular Unreasoning
It was just earlier this week that I pointed to the shenanigans being played between the Liberals and the Conservatives when it comes to Bill C-19, the governments proposed temporary…
Jason Kenney’s epic fail
The spectacular failures of Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party government in Alberta are almost too frequent to enumerate. Image by Canadian Dimension. Many on the social medias have given Alberta…
Timely And Relevant
A nice follow-up to yesterday’s post: H/t Theo Moudakis As well, Bob Coupland of Oakville expresses some timely sentiments: Ford government’s planning entrenches sprawl at expense of environment I just…
Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain: A history of Canada’s medical colonialism against Indigenous people and why it needs to be recognized as genocide
This op-ed by Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain, author of Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada, was originally published in the Toronto Star on…
Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists: Book Launch & Discussion [VIDEO]
This is a recording of the April 29, 2021 book launch for There is Nothing so Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists, available now! The…
The Saga Of Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani is in it deep — really deep. George Conway writes in The Washington Post: In law and in life, things have a way of coming full circle. The…
#FlashbackFriday: Wise Law Blog: Post #3500 – On Milestones, Law Blogging, the Marketing Classes and Vulgar Talking Yams
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 22, 2016 via Wise Law Blog: Wise Law Blog: Post #3500 – On Milestones, Law Blogging, the Marketing Classes and Vulgar Talking Yams…
Trumpeting for the Trumpers.
Those provincial premiers from Alberta and Ontario must be taking all their cues from former U.S. president Donald Trump. They have both got their asses in a sling as they…
CBC: “Maxime Bernier uttered racist slur about Jagmeet Singh”
"When Mr. Singh entered the foyer, Mr. Bernier said, referring to Mr. Singh, 'Il ne se fera jamais élire avec ce torchon sur sa tête,'" wrote Conway. He translated the…
Your humble scribe planned to take a night off from blogging – then this happened blocks from his house
Unionized public employees from all over Alberta’s Capital Region raced to the neighbouring city of St. Albert last night, willing to put themselves in harm’s way to save lives and…
Premier Kenney encounters contrary constituents
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, dating back to his college days, has never been comfortable with people who hold divergent views. Perhaps chief among the views he despises the most are…
BC NDP arming opponents
Like BC Liberals before them, BC NDP is dishonest about BC Hydro operations and the Site C megaproject. Government joins BC Hydro and continues lying about demand growth. At the…
North Cowichan considers suite of measures to stop tree poaching
Mayor confirms carbon credits an option for forest reserve CBC’s The National visited Stoney Hill to witness first-hand where sixmountains.ca discovered the stumps of a couple of valuable western red…
Musing on the Authorship Question Again
The “authorship question” — who wrote Shakespeare’s works, aside that is, from Shakespeare himself — is a conspiracy that seems a metaphor for modern society. It contains the seeds of…
Twitter Spaces on C-10!
Twitter Spaces townhall tonight at 7pm EST! Like this post and I'll post a reminder link for you below! Retweet this post so that @s_guilbeault tunes in! pic.twitter.com/wMJCOaGPQy — Stephen…
Something I think about a lot these days
The pandemic has caused a total collapse in citizens’ trust in communications by government. I’ve never seen anything like it. In wartime, public opinion coalesces. During the pandemic, it has…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Leyland Cecco discusses how a combination of feckless government and decades of carefully-stoked anti-science sentiment has turned Alberta into North America’s COVID-19…
They Myth of China, the Climate Champion
If you think of China as leading the fight against climate catastrophe, you might want to think again. China now contributes 27 per cent of global carbon emissions. The United…