#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Khalden Dhatsenpa and Gavin Armitage-Ackerman write about the need to treat housing as a human right rather than a commodity. – PressProgress…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Cory Neudorf writes about the need for layers of COVID-19 protection now to avoid extreme measures like lockdowns due to the collapse of…
How Justin Trudeau Regained his Big Mo
I think Justin Trudeau has been stunned by how difficult it has been to get his message across to Canadians. Stunned by the way violent Con mobs have tried to…
How The Cons Are Trying To Steal The Election
Ever since the campaign began the Cons have been trying to drown out Justin Trudeau's message to Canadians, anyway they can. They have directed their monstrous supporters to try to…
The Lancet. Focus on PM 2.5
The Lancet Planetary Health has devoted its latest volume, “Breathing Fire,” to the growing threat of wildfire smoke, the dangerous PM 2.5 that threatens the health, perhaps even survival, of…
Lest We Forget
We don’t remember very well. It’s human nature to forget even the not so distant past and, instead, consider the present as normal. There’s a term for it – “creeping…
Saudi Fingerprints Were All Over the 9/11 Attacks
It’s hard to know how this will play out but it could be a corner stone to Joe Biden’s presidential legacy. Late Saturday night, Biden took the lid off a…
MB Podcast – The Final Week
The latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, Cam & Alise talk about the latest developments from the 44th General Election, the last leaders’…
David Frum – Dems Need to Open Their Doors to Old-School Republicans
They have only themselves to blame but there’s no point dwelling on that. Old School or what I call patrician Republicans are realizing that, even with Trump gone, the GOP…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates September 7, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: PDF NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
Are We Becoming Ungovernable?
Like the jackass who threw gravel at Justin Trudeau we’re plainly becoming unruly but that’s not the point. Are we, as a nation, a society, becoming ungovernable? Are we disposed…
In Which an Anti-Vaxxer Ethics Professor Falls Far Short Of The Mark
Dr. Julie Ponesse, erstwhile professor of ethics at Western University, has been terminated for her refusal to adhere to the Covid vaccination mandate at her school. The following is a…
Time for craft brewery workers to organize
Kim Sturdavant, brewmaster at the now-defunct Social Kitchen & Brewery in San Francisco. Photo from Facebook. Over the past four months, the craft brewing industry has been rocked by revelations…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of September 13, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of September 13, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Hedges on 9/11
On the anniversary of 9/11, Chris Hedges offered these thoughts: The explosions and collapse of the towers, however, were, to me, intimately familiar. I had seen it before. This was…
A Kenyan Factory Turns Plastic Waste into Bricks
Nzambi Matee got tired of waiting for a solution to all the plastic waste she saw, so she created a company to deal with it. The material engineer opened a…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 13, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 13, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Drug possession charges dropped across Ontario at an unprecedented rate Lawyer Rankin…
A Bigot’s Endorsement.
Dammit Justin, can’t you get anything right? You were supposed to trash the Bloc’s Blanchet in the French-language debate. In the English-language debate your targets were conservative Erin O’Toole and…
Election Follies and Funnies #22: Trudeau’s remarkable speech
Today on the campaign: Trudeau made an impassioned speech about Canadians coming together to help each other out during the pandemic. Singh had a zinger tweet. O’Toole fell on his…