In Retreat
Sometimes it doesn’t seem like it — particularly given this weekend’s Conservative convention. But, E.J. Dionne writes that, globally, the Far Right is in retreat: There’s a long-standing habit among…
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Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of March 22, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of March 22, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
If You Thought Crip Camp Was Thrilling, You Will Love This Book
I admit it, I’ve been feeling discouraged recently. I’ve been advocating hard for people with disabilities to be prioritized for COVID19 vaccines in Canada, but still haven’t had success protecting…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of March 22, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 22, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was…
Befuddled Bureaucracy.
It happened this past weekend. The Ontario government bureaucracy lost me. I was due for my second shot of the Pfizer vaccine. Since the first shot had no adverse effects,…
Conservatives stumble over the big issue
Hanging over our heads is one overwhelming issue. It’s not the pandemic, and it’s not the economic disruption caused by the pandemic. It’s our rape of the planet, the most…
Human Brain – the next BattleField
How far have illegal Human experiments been going on?As Canadian government has a History of participation in Illegal Human Experiments, is there a strong possibility that government shielded criminals are…
Human Brain – the next BattleField
How far have illegal Human experiments been going on?As Canadian government has a History of participation in Illegal Human Experiments, is there a strong possibility that government shielded criminals are…
Human Brain – the next BattleField
How far have illegal Human experiments been going on? As Canadian government has a History of participation in Illegal Human Experiments, is there a strong possibility that government shielded criminals…
The Bigfoot Blog
“Here’s a Hollywood production that depicts an oil company … as wanting to murder children to oppose environmental progress…The NDP, that’s who they’re defending…They’ve always been against our largest industry.”…
Canada’s aid to Yemen is just a humanitarian band-aid
A man, displaced by fighting in the Yemeni city of Hodediah, cools down in the Rabat camp near Aden, July 4, 2019. Photo by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid/Flickr.…
Winners and losers of the first COVID-19 year
How did this microscopic turd bring the world to its knees? So here we are, a full year into the Coronapocalypse. It has been (choose your favourite hackneyed phrase) a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine, Cory Neudorf, Kyle Anderson and Alexander Wong each point out the desperate need for Saskatchewan to keep people healthy in…
roots and icebergs: decolonizing community spaces: a workshop
I recently attended a six-hour workshop called Decolonizing Community Spaces. The workshop was led by two facilitators, one a Native American speaking to us from her traditional territories in Montana,…
Quidnuncs on Council
A quidnunc is “a small-minded person, focused on petty things.” That’s how Gord Hume describes them in chapter five of his book, Taking Back Our Cities (Municipal World, 2011). Hume…
Change in Education and What Needs to be Done
Published as Change in Education and What Needs to be Done, 15 pages, 2020, Maysan Center for Future Studies. In recent months we as a global community have experienced a…
The Stupid Party
Chantal Hebert writes that, on Thursday, the Supreme Court will rule on the Trudeau government’s carbon tax: For Justin Trudeau’s government, the stakes could not be higher. Should the court…