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January 2022
Benito’s Nephew. Where Did They Get That Idea?
Although some have seen the resemblance. QAnon has been peddling some nonsense about the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump, as the son of legendary general, George S. Patton; nephew to…
Climate action is someone else’s job
Kantar Public, part of an international consulting company, advises on public policy, services and communications. Analysts examined attitudes toward taking climate actions, What they found might be paraphrased as, “We…
Well That Was One Very Brief Life Sentence
Robert Durst will go down in the books as one of the most successful murderers to elude justice in American history. The heir to a New York real estate fortune…
Also, if you think it might be ice, it’s almost always ice
Here’s a cautionary tweet. That mess on my @KaliCanada helmet is where my head would have hit the ice, at about 30kph, had I not been wearing it. Elbow, knee…
Understanding Canadian imperialism
Canadian postage stamp celebrating the vastness of the British empire, December 25, 1898. Imperialism is not only instantiated in military force and unilateral sanctions deployed to influence the sovereign political…
It’s Time to Talk About Wage Theft
Over at Popular Information they juxtapose two crimes that happened last year: the stealing of retail goods by one person valued between $200-$950 and the other crime by one corporation…
Did You Hear the News? The Seven Hottest Years on Record are the Last Seven Years!!
It makes you wonder what the future holds except that most Canadians would rather have their wisdom teeth out than dwell on that question. The last seven years were the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes that the U.S.’ Omicron COVID wave looks far more severe than Europe’s – even if it isn’t being met with…
Breaking up Families: How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People [Fifth Estate]
Breaking up Families How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People by Marieke Bivar Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021 a review of Fighting for A Hand to Hold:…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 10, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Maj.-Gen. Fortin’s appeal of decision around reinstatement to vaccine task force to go ahead #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
The Reality of Denial and the Denial of Reality [Cured Quail Journal]
Antithesi / cognord Download PDF This text was written and published in Greek in September 2021. It was meant as a polemic intervention in a debate around the questions of…
‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong [ClimateAndCapitalism.com]
Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book. Introduction It’s not often that a book by radical authors gets reviewed — let alone…
Free the Fujian Six! Open Letter from a Young Maoist Awaiting Prison [Chuang]
Just as 2022 began, the world received news that delivery worker and organizer Chen Guojiang, known as Mengzhu (??), had been freed after nearly a year in detention. But Mengzhu’s…
A Stalinist school of development? [Workers Weekly]
Paul Flewers looks back at the flawed but insightful theory of state collectivism presented by John Fantham and Moshé Machover in the late 1970s The discussion around the nature of…
An Apt Follow-Up
This editorial cartoon by Michael De Adder seems an apt follow-up to yesterday’s post: Recommend this Post
Do recent mandate letters signal a new direction in the opioid crisis?
A memorial to people who have died of overdoses in Vancouver. Photo by Dan Toulgoet/North Shore News. As new Parliaments take shape, so too do new cabinets. In December, Prime…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of January 10, 2022
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The Minister of Housing’s Mandate Letter
On 16 December 2021, mandate letters for Canada’s federal ministers were made public. The letter for Canada’s Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion contains an important set of marching…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 10, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 10, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: How one B.C. woman’s fall in a roadside snowbank could push Toronto…