Boston’s Mayor: Free Transit for All for a Better City
The new mayor or of Boston, Michelle Wu, knows what it takes to improve life in the city. She sees free transit for everyone has a way to increase the…
2022
Today’s News: Incredible or incredibly stupid!
Incredible! Tonight has shown, beyond any shadow of doubt, that universal access to safe and affordable abortion care is incredibly popular. When Kansas votes 2:1 to support abortion care, I…
Clay, RIP
Clay Ruby was a friend, an ally, and my lawyer more than once. I was so sad to learn of his passing. He was a great and profoundly decent man.…
This Troubles Trudeau.
MP Pierre Poilievre is not Justin Trudeau’s problem. The Carleton MP is the conservative party’s problem. This extremist, poised to take over control of the conservative party, poses a smaller…
Moronic public policy
The utility that for years could not estimate demand growth accurately and missed on the Site C cost estimate by 100% knew the future danger posed by rooftop solar panels…
Call it what you like, that $227,911 paid to Alberta’s chief medical officer of health wasn’t overtime
Just to be perfectly clear, Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw’s $227,911 in “cash benefits” is not overtime and should not be called overtime. Former finance minister Travis…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats hanging on.
Sold already. Moo.
New. Moo. pic.twitter.com/s0PTg5Rm9k — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 2, 2022
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board writes that we’re being left to navigate an ongoing pandemic in the dark as governments choose…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 2, 2022
#legalTweetoftheDay: First Capitol Rioter to Face Trial Gets 7 Years, Longest Sentence So Far #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3JmWNGa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of August 2, 2022
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The Endgame
It’s time, climate scientists warn, to consider the endgame — human extinction. Damien Carrington writes: The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists…
Climate End Game
A report from PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), urges governments to take off the blinders and begin evaluating climate breakdown from a worst case scenario.Despite 30…
Climate End Game
A report from PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), urges governments to take off the blinders and begin evaluating climate breakdown from a worst case scenario.Despite 30…
Climate End Game
A report from PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), urges governments to take off the blinders and begin evaluating climate breakdown from a worst case scenario. Despite…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 2, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 2, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Why Elvis Presley’s Graceland going into default may have implications for other…
Home Town Haunting.
Barrie is beset by bad decisions this summer. The city lost a good mayor when Jeff Lehman decided to finally make the move to Queen’s Park. Poor timing on his…
Today’s News: A problem with definitions
Some chatter these days about how conservatives and progressives aren’t talking to each other very much anymore. Another day of nightmare oppression in communist Canada ?? pic.twitter.com/msNUsft7Se — Dr. Ian…
Whoever decided to pay Deena Hinshaw a 63% COVID bonus did no favours for the former cabinet ministers running to replace Jason Kenney
Who made the decision to give Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s already controversial chief medical officer of health, that eye-popping $227,911 cash bonus for 2021? It was not a good announcement for…
Say it’s so, Joe
“By a wide margin, this legislation will be the greatest pro-climate legislation that has ever been passed by Congress.” — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Everyone, except possibly Schumer,…