Is the Ocean Losing Its Memory?
A new report claims our oceans are losing their memory, something that may impair our ability to predict climate extremes and our ability to manage fisheries. The study is tough…
2022
Jesus, endless war, and the rise of American fascism
“With this Ring.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Democratic Party—which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full…
Monbiot – The Earth Beneath Our Feet
Forget flat screen TVs and broken supply chains. How secure is the global food supply? Hint: it’s not secure, not at all. If you haven’t got enough to eat, biblical…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 9, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Twitter over ban via @cnn #law #legal #lawtwitter https://cnn.it/3MYp72b – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sheryl Gay Stoberg discusses how concerns about pharmaceutical profiteering and a lack of access in the developing world are developing for COVID-19 treatments…
Inflation: Wages versus profits
Illustration by American labour cartoonist Fred Wright, updated to reflect increases in corporate profits, prices and wages over the past two years. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Governor of the…
A Distorted Reality
I will readily admit to holding a long-time smugness about Canada and its citizens; a deep feeling of superiority seemed inevitable when comparing us with the United States, a country…
“Abortion, the Christian right, and antifascism” – Matthew N Lyons [Three Way Fight]
By Matthew N Lyons | Saturday, May 07, 2022 It’s time for antifascists to stop treating the Christian right as a secondary threat. When the U.S. Supreme Court scraps legal…
Anti-Democratic Justices
The Supreme Court of the United States is anti-democratic. E.J. Dionne writes: If the Supreme Court adopts the substance of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s draft ruling ending the constitutional…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of May 9, 2022
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Biden vacillates as Venezuela’s Maduro gains ground
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s repeated calls for dialogue with the United States in order to normalize relations seem to be paying off. His openness to rapprochement contrasts with the Biden…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 9, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 9, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows –…
Save Forests by Removing Just One Item From Your Diet
We are what we eat, and right now many of us need to change who we are. Changing one’s diet can be one of the biggest things one does for…
Doug Ford, meet Mike Harris.
It’s unusual for a premier, who wants to continue as premier, to criticize a former premier of the same political party. Not that Ontario premier Doug Ford gives a damn.…
Today’s news: One of those days
Yes, it was Mother’s Day. And lots of political tweets that relate: Are we still calling it Mother’s Day or is it now just Domestic Infant Supplier Day? — Keri…
Oil, guns and ethics
Promoters of the Alberta tar sands suggest customers for the product almost have a moral obligation to buy it. Their term is “ethical oil.” We hear the refrain from an…
More on Kenney’s Leadership Review (God, it never ends)
Have you noticed how corrupt and mediocre our government has become? Yesterday we learned that Elections Alberta is investigating the bulk buying of UCP memberships—4,000 new memberships were purchased by…
Read ‘Ten Lost Years’ (if you can find it) and stop your belly-aching
It’s safe to say that these are not the best of times. For two years, we have been stalked by an invisible, shape-shifting enemy who has sickened and killed millions,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Yan Wang et al. examine the feasibility of a zero COVID policy, and find that the even the development of the Omicron…