Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jill Lepore writes that the COVID pandemic has left no room for doubt that there is such a thing as society reflecting mutual…
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Legal Tweet of the Day: November 29, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: A mother got children’s aid involved over her ex’s smoking. But is second-hand smoke grounds for intervention? via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Talking the arrival of Omicron on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Josh Zanin. We discussed the arrival of the Omicron COVID-19 variant,…
Canada’s Biggest Port All Backed Up
A port is really just a dock. It’s a place where cargo is transferred from a ship to a rail car or a flatbed truck for delivery to a waiting…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of November 29, 2021
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How Long?
Justin Trudeau came back to parliament with an agenda. But events, Chantal Hebert writes, could alter that agenda: Part of the Liberal rationale for holding a snap election was the…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 29, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 29, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Rittenhouse’s Counsel: Defending a Client, Not a Cause Austria Imposes Lockdown and…
The BC NDP ain’t what it used to be.
The BC NDP ain’t what it used to be. The level of environmental neglect and economic idiocy is unequalled in our history. The two faced claim of supporting **UNDRIP **is…
The challenge in the choosing!
We were puzzled the other day to hear that Ontario liberal leader Steven Del Duca has pre-picked ridings that will have a female liberal candidate in the coming provincial election.…
It’s my birthday (sort of)
I celebrated a birthday earlier this week and in the Soapbox household birthday celebrations go on forever. Which is why there is no blog today. I’ll be back next week.…
On Trying to Find Peace with Prem Rawat
Since falling into a pandemic funk, I’ve tried a variety of books and videos to try to get a little inner stillness in order to continue to function. Omicron and…
Nathan Cullen Gets the Bums Rush
NDP MLA Nathan Cullen has been given his marching orders by the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs. Members of the Gitxsan Huwilp Government posted the notice of eviction outside the…
Albert St. tunnel
Under one of the longest bridges spanning the shortest span of water.
COVID-19 PSA
A virus cannot mutate if it cannot incubate. We know how to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but we conflate and complicate perceived rights and freedoms w/ public health mandates…
But What About the Cattle?
It will be a while before we have an accurate figure but the flooding in southwest British Columbia has taken a toll of livestock in the Fraser Valley. Some cattle…
Is Erin O’Toole Losing His Battle To Remain Con Leader?
In the last few days Erin O'Toole and his ugly Cons have been going practically wild, trying to stop the government from bringing back a hybrid Parliament. And it has…
It’s All A Matter Of Perspective, I Guess
Some people are losing good union jobs because of their ‘beliefs’. No doubt those being fired from well-paid positions at Toronto’s TTC, from various hospitals, etc. see themselves as principled…
KINSELLACAST 187: Lilley, Mraz on the new menace – and feminist grrrrl punk rock!
The post KINSELLACAST 187: Lilley, Mraz on the new menace – and feminist grrrrl punk rock! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
What Do You Want for Christmas, Johnny?
Well it sure as hell ain’t water up to my arse and a new virus.