Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of October 24, 2022
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 24, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 24, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Here’s who is testifying next at Emergencies Act public inquiry Canadian gets…
Could Google, Meta quit Canada over Bill C-18?
Entrance sign at Meta’s headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The high-stakes game of chicken that is the Online News Act reached a new, dangerous level…
Financial war and its discontents
Panorama of Moscow Kremlin from Bolshoi Kamenny bridge. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Power and money go together. First the Dutch, then the British, and more recently the Americans, have succeeded…
Policing Police.
There is more than one benefit of the inquiry into the use of the emergencies act by Justice Paul Rouleau. It is showing how antiquated and inefficient our approach to…
Today’s News: Ukraine update
I will be travelling over the next few days so I may not be able to put up more posts this week Tonight, I am trying to figure out the…
Vaccine-skeptical slate sympathetic to Danielle Smith’s public health views captures all 9 contested positions on UCP board
So what happens now that half the 18 elected members of the United Conservative Party board are vaccine-skeptical allies of Premier Danielle Smith? Mount Royal University political science professor Duane…
Disruptive action on the climate deserves our support
Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” Screenshot from Twitter. Earlier this month, a pair of young activists with a group called Just Stop Oil threw soup on…
The Price One Pays: Liquidation of the Uncompetitive
I’m saving this excellent thread by Dr. Satoshi Akima FRACP. It’s tongue-in-cheek, but of course some are sharing bits of it as proof that we need to let ‘er rip!…
From The Land Of Make Believe
That would be Ontario, though I suppose, in truth, it is far more widespread: a rising number of deaths from Covid (this week was the worst since last May, despite…
Very Uncomfortable
Susan Delacourt writes that the Freedom Convoy was a big deal: Witnesses at the public inquiry into last winter’s convoy protest in Canada may already be running out of ways…
Disqualified candidate’s response to BC NDP leadership
Beyond matters of NDP policies that could easily be those of the BC Liberal party, Appadurai unloaded on Elizabeth Cull and NDP insiders for bias, hostility, unfairness, and back-dating of…
Bring Back Boris?
It must be the bookies who are running the United Kingdom these days. They are giving 2-to-1 odds on Boris Johnson returning to 10 Downing Street. The Truss solution did…
A tale of two speeches: Rachel Notley and Danielle Smith mark informal start of campaign leading to 2023 election
Members of Alberta’s only two political parties with MLAs in the Legislature met in convention yesterday – the governing United Conservatives in Edmonton and Opposition New Democrats in Calgary –…
More great stuff
What a week — we really need some great stuff right now, don’t we, and I’ve got some. But first, let’s consider the nominees for this week’s “Christ, what an…
Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bob Becken discusses the use of “no smell” complaints about scented candles as a sad substitute for meaningful public reporting of ongoing COVID…
Loyalty oath shows inconsistencies in Canadian democracy
Should Canadians still pledge their allegiance to the monarch? Photo from iStock. It is not often that I find myself agreeing with Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, whose ethno-nationalist,…
Boo! Now that I have your attention, here are some scary movie suggestions.
The month of October – where we in Alberta begin the gloomy wait for the first cold snap (which might last five months) – has over the past few years…
It’s not progressive to label pacifists ‘Putin stooges’
Street art depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed at Filatorigát, a legal graffiti wall in Budapest. Photo courtesy Hungary Today. Promoting a proxy war with Russia isn’t progressive. It’s time…