Trustee Campaigning: An Expensive, Two-Month Long Job Interview
A friend asked me, You don’t put your own money into doing this, do you, and deliver all the fliers to each door yourself?? Short answer: Yup! Running for trustee…
September 2022
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Laura Ungar reports on the message from experts that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. And Jon Kamp discusses the reality that…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates September 6, 2022
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Timothy Snyder’s Talk on The Road to Unfreedom
I haven’t read the book yet, but I stumbled on Timothy Snyder’s talk about it from four years ago. Unfortunately, it’s all still very relevant! “The things that are happening…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 12, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario youth activists set to fight Doug Ford’s emissions targets in court #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3d9R1fk – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Vote now, vote often!
Choose wisely, Canada! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 12, 2022
The Transformation Is Complete
With Pierre Poilievre the newly anointed leader of the CPC, Canadians can take a step back and breathe a sight of relief – the masquerade is over. Ever since its…
Monarchs belong in the dustbin of history
“Off With Her Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in…
Woman’s Nose Evolved Into Skin Swab Test for Parkinson’s
When Joy Milne‘s husband started to smell bad, she thought something was wrong. Her concern was met with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s, which is a neurological condition impacting hundreds of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 12, 2022
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 12, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 12, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge grants Trump bid for special master in Mar-a-Lago case New CNE…
Darkness Falls.
They say that bad luck runs in threes. The Queen died last week. Justin Trudeau said he was staying as leader of the liberals for the next election. And Pierre…
From my Bookmarks
As I scroll Twitter, I often bookmark interesting comments and funny tweets. But I don’t always get the opportunity to include them in my nightly blog post — sometimes they…
A Community of Healing
It has been just a week since the James Smith Cree Nation was shattered. After the death of Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien, it seems like the world has…
So, some things seem to have changed in the past couple of days: We’ll have something to say about that!
NEW YORK It’s been a few days since I’ve been able to file any commentary on this blog. Times Square at supper time tonight (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). While I…
Danielle Smith and the Free Alberta Strategy
We’ve been so focused on the unconstitutionality of Danielle Smith’s central campaign promise, the passage of the Alberta Sovereignty Act (ASA), that we’ve forgotten that the ASA is part of…
Ten years after the Marikana massacre, we must recognize Canada’s role in empowering mining companies in South Africa
Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of the Marikana massacre. Photo by Andreas Georghiou/Flickr. On August 16, 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on striking miners…
Carbon capture and storage: a necessary evil?
Photo by Scott Butner/Flickr We are in the middle of an historic energy crisis. Recently, news headlines have been overwhelmed by commentaries on the price of energy across Europe resulting…
Ditch the monarchy
Elizabeth II and Prince Charles formally open parliament in 2015. Photo courtesy UK Parliament/Flickr. For all the great things Elizabeth Windsor was supposed to have done in her life, and…