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2021
The Globe’s "O’Toole Paradox"
The Globe editorial board is giddy at how Tory backbenchers have gotten, “out from under the thumb of domineering party leaders who view them as little more than biotic voting…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 8, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Lawsuit filed against Travis Scott, Live Nation and others following Astroworld Festival tragedy via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Figures Don’t Lie but Liars Figure. COP 26 -"A Bit of a Fantasy."
A Washington Post investigation finds that many nations are lying about their greenhouse gas emissions. Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a…
Red State America Reaps the Whirlwind
Since Covid vaccines became widely available, death rates in Red states are roughly three times that of Blue states. The more you like Trump the more you’re apt to die…
The Art of the Possible. Is It Enough? Not Anymore.
We’re in a crisis. Any doubt of that was erased by the summer’s killer heat domes, worsening wildfires, and prairie droughts. It’s also manifest in our warming and acidifying seas,…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 8, 2021
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Get With the Program
It’s time, Susan Riley writes, to stop treating anti-vaxxers with kid gloves: It is long past time that governments, institutions, unions, corporations, school boards—especially health-care providers, but, basically, anyone who…
Roasting Coffee by the Rays of the Sun
In Italy your next cup of coffee may come from a solar roaster instead of an unsustainable source. Climate change is threatening the ability of coffee plants to survive, as…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 8, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 8, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Rogers family drama moves to courtroom Monday as both sides seek legal…
Covid Journal, Nov 8, 2021
Can we please have our urinals back? The post Covid Journal, Nov 8, 2021 first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Justin Trudeau’s smoke and mirrors climate policy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault hold a press conference at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021. Photo from Twitter. In…
Government or Frat House? Either Way Kenney Can’t Lead
Ariella Kimmel, former chief of staff to Jobs Minister Doug Schweitzer, filed a lawsuit this spring alleging the Premier’s office fostered a “poisoned work environment,” it failed to address her…
Who Started World War Two?
Well, check the web. It will say it was Hitler. But it wasn’t. At the Versailles peace meeing in 1919, it was decided there would be no penalties for World…
MAKING BIG CHANGE
I recently posted a piece I did for CCPA’s The Monitor recommending five readings on big change. Here I will try to distill some of what I gleaned about what…
KINSELLACAST 184: Mraz, Mills, Belanger on O’Terrible – plus the godlike geniuses, Chixdiggit!
The post KINSELLACAST 184: Mraz, Mills, Belanger on O’Terrible – plus the godlike geniuses, Chixdiggit! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Fancy This – a Carbon Tax on Imports.
This would have the global freetraders howling in outrage. Britain’s environment minister is floating the idea of imposing a carbon tax on imported meat products. said that in the long…
Nooo, We Don’ Wanna!
I know, let’s save the planet. Yeah… Okay, here’s what we have to do. Nooo, we don’ wanna… A study finds we all want to fight climate change – except…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Miller highlights what we can do to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the winter to come. And Pratyush Dayal reports…