Today’s News: "Abortion is a fundamental right"
(Photo of Supreme Court protest today, by Jabin Botsford, WashPost) Today lots of comments and discussions about how the United States is criminalizing abortion again. I’m not sure which Justice…
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Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cuddly cats.
Lake Mead Gives Up Her Dead
Lake Mead, the source of freshwater for some 25 million Americans, is at levels as low as it has been since the construction of the Hoover Dam. How low? Low…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Elisabeth McClymont et al. study the risks COVID-19 creates for maternal and perinatal outcomes, while Jessica Widdifield et al. find that vaccines…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows #law #legal #lawtwitter via @politico https://politi.co/3ybdtwH – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Paltry Offerings
I can’t remember a time when I have been less inspired about an election. Here in Ontario, where we go to the polls on June 2, we have Conservative Doug…
Ford ramping up privatization of Ontario health care system
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s announces the release of a report by an advisory council on improving health care and ending hallway medicine, January 2019. Photo from Twitter. In Ontario, real…
Simran Bakshi on Family Law: Spouses reminded that there are no free lunches when it comes to Property acquired during a Common Law Relationship
The Court of Appeal in Walters v Nusseiri, 2020 ONCA 615 affirmed that a common law spouse who does not contribute towards a property, may not have an entitlement to…
Inflation: austerity is not the solution, it’s the problem
SURELY WE HAVE ENOUGH TO worry about without renewed warnings about runaway inflation. But even amid all our various crises, inflation continues to make its way into the headlines: “Canada’s…
Have They Got Him?
It looks like New York’s District Attorney will give Donald Trump a Get Out Of Jail Free Card. But, in Atlanta, Trump faces another kind of district attorney. Norm Eisen…
My latest: abortion is back
Think the U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw abortion is irrelevant to Canada? Think again. Because Politico’s bombshell revelation Monday night — a leak of a draft opinion of America’s…
How Drones Logistics Redefined Blood Delivery in Rwanda
Delivering good is always a challenge, and it’s a particularly hard challenge in a mountainous country like Rwanda. An ambitious company known as Zipline noticed that drones could solve this…
The Needed and the Needy.
A friend sent me an ad for a Brit t-shirt company known for their political opinions that certainly sums up the Ford administration in Ontario. They cost almost as much…
Today’s News: It’s the end of choice in America
A draft SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe V Wade on a 5-4 vote leaked tonight, and of course we saw the usual pearl-clutching toonight about how unseemly it is to…
Open Letter from 58 researchers and docs assails safe drug supply study prepared for Alberta Legislature committee
A damning open letter signed by 58 physicians and research scientists assails a study commissioned by an Alberta Legislature committee examining safe supply programs for users of addictive drugs as…
"The conversation must include apology. But it must not stop there"
Tonight I wanted to conclude my coverage of the visit to Saskatchewan by the Archbishop of Canterbury the Reverend Justin Welby, and his apology for the residential schools. The Anglican…
Roe v. Wade Overturned?
Claiming to have received a leaked copy of the majority decision of the US Supreme Court, Politico is reporting that the court will strike down the landmark decision on women’s…
When judges play politics, it never works out the way they expect
@POTUS now has no choice but to enlarge #SCOTUS. After using its abortion ruling to pulverize the GOP in the midterms, that is. #USPolitics pic.twitter.com/2QaM0HBO6O — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May…
The Seas Are Becoming Saltier.
One impact of the climate emergency is our broken hydrologic cycle. The oceans are warming, sea ice is in decline and the waters are becoming ever more acidic. Warming oceans…