Today’s News: Updates from all over
Uvalde Massacre update: The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning. pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX — mrs.LHS ????☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022 We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just…
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AHS drops mandatory COVID-19 immunization for health care employees; pressure from UCP widely assumed
Alberta Health Services rescinded its mandatory COVID-19 immunization requirement for all employees yesterday, effective immediately. Alberta Health Services interim CEO Mauro Chies (Photo: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology). In a…
Olympics, a money loser for the general public
July 18, the Globe and Mail headlined, “The Olympics are a great party. But they’re not worth billions in public money.” The editorial added, “Hosting a huge party takes a…
Alberta ‘children assigned female at birth’ names 2021: From Aabha to Zyrie
Last week, we looked at Alberta baby boy names for 2021. This week, let’s look at baby girl names, or, as the Postmedia story stated with an apparently straight face,…
Also: my guy, Biden, now looks weak
The degree to which Americans have just shrugged and done essentially nothing about the gutting of Roe v. Wade amazes me, and then I remember all the school shootings. They’ve…
3QD: Tossing the Canon in a Cannon
I’ve started contributing to 3 Quarks Daily once each month. Here’s my first: Tossing the Canon in a Cannon – about choosing philosophers to read that aren’t posthumously tainted by…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 18, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King released on bail with conditions #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3OcRtpv – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Humanity Heading for "Collective Suicide"
The warnings just get ever more dire even as our leaders show an incredible capacity to ignore them. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, says humanity is on the fast lane…
Anger Merchant
Michael Harris writes that Pierre Poilievre is an anger merchant. The Conservative Party appears to believe that he will be their ticket to power: The CPC has managed to convince…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of July 18, 2022
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Prices, Inflation and Greed & How to Use Abandoned Malls
Just another day of price hikes and shoulder shrugs for monopolies in Canada … The post Prices, Inflation and Greed & How to Use Abandoned Malls first appeared on Excited…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 18, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 18, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Could Twitter Force Musk to Close the Deal? Here’s What We Know…
The ‘Deplorables’ are in play.
Nobody ever said that Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre was not a man on a mission. He will do anything to move himself along on the road to the prime minister’s…
Weekend: Music, and Animal Crackers
Hey, Gangnam Style was 10 years old as of Friday! And Psy is still going stong – he has now released 9 albums and is on tour again this summer.…
UCP leadership candidate calls appointment of Collin May as Human Rights chief ‘a significant problem’
United Conservative Party leadership candidate Rajan Sawhney yesterday issued a statement saying “it is a significant problem” that the new chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission made “pejorative comments…
Have the Cons Finally Blown Up Their Party?
It was yet another perfect blue sky day, and I was feeling even sunnier than usual. So I thought that instead of writing about the ugliness of the Cons, I…
Canada joins US in militarizing the Pacific
Ships from the US Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy during Annual Exercise (ANNUALEX) 19. US Navy photo courtesy of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force/Flickr.…
2022 ‘mining risk index’ takes aim at left wing governments in Latin America
Pedro Castillo, the president of Peru, speaks during a rally in Lima. Photo from Shutterstock. On July 7, 2022, Florida-based market research firm Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) released a report…
KINSELLACAST 219: Lilley, Agar, Mraz on fist bumps and fisticuffs – plus GBV, Tacocat, Colleen Green
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates July 12, 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…