How to Free Yourself from Gas at Home
When it comes to emissions we often think of cars and factories, but we can’t ignore the impact we can make at home. In much of the northern hemisphere houses…
January 2022
The Circular Firing Squad
The Democratic Party is forming a circular firing squad. Paul Waldman writes in The Washington Post: Faced with voting rights legislation felled by Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten…
Platinum Jubilee News
We are officially in the 70th year of Her Majesty’s reign.While events won’t likely get started till the summer I wanted to go over what we know so far. Event…
On NATO all parties agree—follow orders without question
NATO flag flies in Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, July 2017. Photo courtesy the Presidential Administration of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons. NATO’s proponents often claim…
Government Giving in to Greed.
It’s the greed that keeps on growing. Premier Doug Ford wants Ontario to step up its gambling. If the pandemic keeps the casinos closed, feel free to try your luck…
Kenney benches Justice Minister Kaycee Madu after revelation he phoned Edmonton police chief about traffic ticket
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney put his justice minister on the bench last night after a CBC story revealed one of the first things Kaycee Madu did after a traffic cop…
Andrew Nikiforuk Takes Jordan Peterson to the Woodshed for a Damn Good Thrashing
I’m sure that quite a few of us have had our fill of the rightwing dandy and pompous git, Jordan Peterson. Recently JP attempted to revive his flagging celebrity with…
we movie to canada: wmtc’s annual movie awards is retired, replaced with best-of list
Last year, I realized that the new format of my annual movie awards was problematic. Beginning with 2018-19, rather than grouping movies by rating (all the 5s together, all the…
"Social Murder" – How the Wealthy and Politically Connected are Engineering Ecological Collapse
Why do our governments, elected to office by ordinary citizens, abet those who would harm us? Chris Hedges accuses them of “social murder.” It’s mass murder. The global catastrophe that…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 17, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Novak Djokovic loses chance to defend Australian Open title as court upholds deportation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anthony Fernandez-Castaneda et al. examine the long-term neurological and cognitive damage caused even by “mild” cases of COVID. Sally Cutler discusses the implications…
Socrates and Saunderson
In Plato’s dialogue Gorgias, Socrates debates with three sophists — Gorgias the rhetorician and his pupils Polus, and Callicles — about justice, power, morality, and virtue. Socrates also questions the…
My 2022 so far
1. Winter bike can’t bike in winter2. Heat pump can’t generate heat in cold3. Snowblower can’t blow snow in snowstorm The universe is sending a message to Warren. — Warren…
A Northern Trump
Susan Riley writes that Trumpism has infected Canadian politics: Something strange has been happening in Canadian politics since the Trump contagion to the south. Voters elect a mostly reasonable, often…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of January 17, 2022
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People Live Longer in Non-Profits
The COVID pandemic has revealed problems in our society which we will need to fix. Thankfully researchers are identifying what problems are fixable by looking for the cause. Long term…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 17, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 17, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Lawyer accused of sending harassing emails to BigLaw opponents had previously filed…
most useless and annoying advice ever: it’s cheaper if you make it yourself
I did not make this myself. Ever since moving to Canada, people have been telling me how I could make something myself for less money than I paid for it.…
‘Twin Peaks’ and the end of history
Kyle MacLachlan plays FBI Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks: The Return. Photo courtesy Showtime. Oh now it’s gone, gone And I am who I am Who I was, I’ll…
It’s a ‘Tear Down”?
Oh, how easy it is to cast aside our history. Don’t get me wrong but Ottawa is a nice city. That is all that it is. It is just a…