Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours [ThreeWayFight]
Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours (guest post) by Linda Mann Editors’ note: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its eleventh month, and the war has no end in sight.…
January 2023
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chinta Sidharthan discusses new research on COVID-19 reinfections, showing that subsequent infections tend to produce similar immediate effects to a first one but…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 10, 2023
NOTE: If you send the updates to Casey Brezik, he has been moved: Casey Brezik Western Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center 3401 Faraon St. Joseph, Missouri 64506 Click here for…
Dirty Air
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that we still haven’t learned important lessons from COVID: The past tells us plagues generally end messily; conclude at different times for different classes and regions; and…
Cutting the Trans Mountain Ribbon?
You did know that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is to be completed in the second half of 2023? It only cost the Canadian government $4.7 billion, when it was…
Danielle Smith to Alberta at first newer of 2023: ‘We haven’t made a decision to invoke the Sovereignty Act on anything’
Judging from Premier Danielle Smith’s first formal news conference of 2023 in Calgary yesterday, no one needs to worry too much about her using the deceptively named Alberta Sovereignty within…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Fluffy cats.
My latest: your Royal Hypocrite-ness
When you’ve concluded that the media are “destroying our mental health,” is it a good idea to then do multi-platform media interviews on multiple continents? When “public pressure” about your…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 10, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Dress code ordered after Oakville teacher wears prosthetic breasts #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3ZoZw9s – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
America’s theatre of the absurd
“Macdeath.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Desmon interviews Ziyad Al-Aly about the reality that anybody infected with COVID-19 faces a substantial risk of heart problems as a…
Catching Illegal Fishers
Many people reduce their meat intake (which is good!) by swapping it with another animal protein source of fish. The problem here lies in how fishing is done around the…
Conning on Electoral Reform.
You can prove just about anything with polls. I was laughing the other day at a poll for Fair Vote Canada that claimed 76 per cent of Canadians wanted a…
Think tanks to Canadians: Do what we say or be prepared to freeze in the dark!
Without decisive changes in public and government attitudes, “Canada faces a decline in living standards and a crippling dependence on foreign fuels within the next 10 years.” That Trudeau guy…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erin Durkin writes about the failure of the U.S.’ government to deal with the growing impact of long COVID – and the likelihood…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 9, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: After 6-Year-Old Is Accused in Shooting, a Murky Legal Path #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3VXM3m4 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Canada’s airline industry doesn’t need more competition. It needs a public alternative
Air Canada Boeing 737-8 Max aircraft parked at the Marana Pinal Airpark, Tucson, Arizona. Photo from Flickr. Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s recent statement that increasing competition in Canada’s airline…
Pompeii Powered by Polymer Panels
Historic sites that attract a lot of tourists know that if they loose their historical look that the tourists will stop coming, so how do you locally produce renewable energy…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of January 9, 2023
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net