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August 2022
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Maggie O’Farrell offers her experience as to the devastating effects of long COVID. And Jose Manuel Aburto et al. study the particularly insidious…
Making the invisible visible: an interview with Megan Linton about the harms of the institutional system, COVID-19, and disability justice
A ward at the Manitoba School for Mental Defectives, later named the Manitoba Developmental Centre. In the 1960s and 1970s, children as young as six were admitted to the centre.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 26, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Uvalde school board fires police chief after mass shooting #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3wzTSod – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Will global inflation subside?
Photo by Christopher Hollis/Wikimedia Commons Is the global inflationary spiral peaking? And if it is and inflation is set to fall over the next year, then has the inflation scare…
Reducing Student Debt
A few days ago, Joe Biden announced a plan to reduce student debt. The Right went bonkers. It’ll fuel inflation, they howled. Paul Krugman writes: What you need to have…
Sometimes, Justice Really Does Happen
The following is self-explanatory; there is no need to watch TizzyEnt‘s original video posting, as the one below reveals all we need to know about the crimes, and the arrest…
Writing the B.S.
In a career in public relations, I wrote for many clients. And I occasionally advised against some things clients thought I should write for them. What was critical in every…
Today’s News: This you?
Its sorta hysterical, really. So yesterday Biden announced $10,000 student-loan forgiveness policies, which are a great thing that will help millions of people. And predictably, some Republicans went nuts about…
One culture war, two cities, three statues, and two levels of government: a tale of two solitudes, perhaps
Throughout history public art has been controversial, and no form of art is more public than sculpture. Edmonton’s iconic Walterdale Bridge seen from the south, where artist Ken Lum’s sculptures…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the dangers of treating public health care systems as resources to be plundered by corporate raiders rather than…
Sweatships on troubled waters
Symphony of the Seas, an Oasis-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International. It was the largest cruise ship in the world by gross tonnage when built in…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 25, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Kobe Bryant’s widow awarded $16M US in trial over crash photos #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3PRJPSa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Eating off the Hill: New McDonalds chicken sandwich, the McCrispy
I’m always on the look-out for chicken sammy updates, and so when I heard McDonald’s had a new chicken sandwich I knew I had to try it out for lunch…
Morning
Mother’s Beach morning. pic.twitter.com/Bk8a36mVJa — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 25, 2022
Dougie In Paradise
Doug Ford is in the cat bird’s seat. Linda McQuaig writes: With our health-care system reeling, Ford is charging ahead with plans for further privatization — Ontario health care is…
Ye of Little Hope.
It is being called ‘The Chill on the Hill.’ It’s the assumption that MP Pierre Poilievre is going to win the brass ring on the merry-go-round of the conservative leadership.…
Six months of war in Ukraine
Here are a few selections from the New York Times collection of Ukraine photos during 6 months of war Dusk in Kyiv Feb 24 (Brendan Hoffman) A volunteer fighter at…
Today’s tonic: “Charlie Crist Speaks After Winning Florida Democratic Primary For Governor” to take on Republican fascist Ron DeSantis this November…
Today’s tonic: “Charlie Crist Speaks After Winning Florida Democratic Primary For Governor” to take on Republican fascist Ron DeSantis in this November’s midterm elections https://youtu.be/Z12qCYpTr2g via @YouTube #uspoli #FloridaPrimary #DeSantisDestroysFlorida…
Jason Kenney’s strange obsessions: Winston Churchill, John A. Macdonald, and needlessly stirring up division
There was probably a time it made sense to erect statues of Winston Churchill in Canada. Lame duck premier Jason Kenney and Mark Milke, a former political aide who is…