Oh, Carey
(apologies to Steve Perry) You shouldn’t have posted Knowing how Montrealers feel And you should’ve known Dec. 6 and what it means Oh, I must’ve been a dreamer And I…
December 2022
Regina has a plan to end homelessness, so what’s stopping it?
Regina, Saskatchewan skyline as seen from Wascana Hill. Photo by Daniel Paquet/Wikimedia Commons. A Regina city councillor is taking his own municipality to court. It is not quite a man-bites-dog…
Plague Update: Can’t Handle The Truth
One of the best doctors in the country, not only for the health services he provides, but for his outreach regarding the climate crisis, is Dr. Joe Vipond. Here he…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 5, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Iran Has Abolished Morality Police, Official Suggests, After Months of Protests #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3FrNWm1 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Will Steffan on What a Four Degrees Temperature Rise Looks Like in the Age of Ecological Disorder
For a trifecta of depressing posts for this Monday morning, I want to save this video here. It’s Will Steffan, an American chemist who became the executive director of the…
What Going on With Kids Today? This is What "No Mitigations" Looks Like
Dr. Jeff Gilchrist’s thread on what’s going on with kids today. He does biomedical research. (I didn’t indent it because it’s long, but this is entirely his words:) “This virus…
Biden and the Progressive Caucus smash labour strike on behalf of railway barons
NQR line, New York. Photo by Stephen Rees/Flickr. “Working together, we have spared this country a Christmas catastrophe in our grocery stores, in our workplaces, and in our communities,” said…
Those Darn Hibernating Viruses!
Many viruses stay in the body, all sneaky-like, for years after a first infection. Chicken pox, which spreads from contact with blisters or mucus, shows up with flu-like symptoms and…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of December 5, 2022
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A Dead End
Michael Harris believes that Danielle Smith won’t be Alberta’s premier for long: As premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith is a political mayfly; not long for the job. By May 29,…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 5, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 5, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Man facing 23 charges of uttering threats against Toronto Metropolitan University members…
Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill 23, aka the ‘Bulldozer Bill’
Corruption, criminal disregard for the environment, tyrannical blocking of local councils. These are just a few issues with Bill 23 from Ontario’s Bolsonaro. The post Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill…
Help Wanted, Ontario.
We need a leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition for Ontario. Applicants must have qualifications and strong desire to replace current incompetent as premier. Political leaning should be to the…
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From TG, this is the funniest summary ever of the #TwitterGate #TwitterFiles Musk-Tabbi story. I’m so glad somebody invented emojis: I am doing this as an image, rather than embedding…
Danielle Smith’s Bill 1: The Wrecking Ball Effect
Wrecking ball: A heavy steel ball hung from a crane, used to demolish large buildings. Commonly used during the 1950s and 1960s. Considered one of the most common forms of…
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The OECD issues a report on the importance of avoiding climate tipping points – and the reality that we’re on pace to…
What is the future of Venezuela’s communes?
A man walks past a mural depicting Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chávez, Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. Photo by Marco Bello. One…
Opposition NDP won’t allow itself to get sucked into the UCP’s desperate effort to fix the unfixable ASWAUCA
Alberta’s New Democratic Party has refused to allow itself to get sucked into the vortex Government’s effort to fix its unfixable Sovereignty Act. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr).…
Five Questions for the Minister of Health
Dr. Christopher Leighton, MD, FRCPC, wrote the following letter to the Minister of Health, and encourages other to do likewise in order to “document the gross negligence of our government.…