The Times They are A-Changin’
Doing another degree has been eye opening to see how much university has changed over the past 20 years since my last Masters. TL;DR: It’s a lot more like high…
February 2023
Religious Bigotry
Justin Trudeau returns to Parliament this week having backtracked on a couple of issues. Althia Raj writes: For the Liberals, the return of Parliament this week was marked by a…
John Tory and Doug Ford’s vision of ‘safety’ is anti-Black
On Tuesday, January 24, hundreds gathered outside Toronto City Hall to protest John Tory’s proposed $48.3 million police budget increase. Photo by Phillip Dwight Morgan. If you follow the Toronto…
Fighting Past Battles.
With due respect for the Toronto Star’s Chantal Hébert, we should only fight past battles with tiny toy soldiers. I was sorrily disappointed the other day when Chantal waded once…
Today’s Great Stuff: Thoughtful, interesting, funny
I noticed some of the kids from down the block coming home from school yesterday and one of them was wearing shorts …. Here’s some thoughtful, interesting, and funny stuff…
Musical interlude
Everything But The Girl – Five Fathoms
He’s Not Wrong … But He Kind Of Is
Over on Twitter, I found the following comment: He’s sort of right. A rental unit is a rental unit, and yes, people should be able to live there. There’s a…
"The System Itself Is Broken"
So says Politics Girl about American law enforcement, an assertion underscored by the recent murder of Tyre Nichols, one of an untold number of victims of out-of-control police. American slavery…
Emergency facilities for people experiencing homelessness
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness. Chapter 4 has just been published. A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/emergency-facilities/ The full chapter is available…
Carlson On Canada
Recently, Tucker Carlson suggested that the United States should “liberate” Canada. Max Fawcett writes: Carlson may have been joking about the idea of “liberating” Canada, but he’s probably dead serious…
Saturday Photo: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
After a winter that so far has been warmer than usual, we are in the deep freeze. Windows were frosted over this morning. Glad I was inside and not out…
Tanks not troops
A Leopard 2A4 tank from Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) travels on the Black Route of the 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Garrison Wainwright Training Centre in preparation for Exercise…
Putting It to the Man.
As a youngster growing up in Toronto, hard on the heels of the Second World War, we had to take our lessons in bigotry in very large doses. And we…
Firing at Athabasca U suggests there are now two classes of public board members in Alberta – those appointed by the UCP and those not
Writing in The Tyee Thursday, Alberta-based investigative journalist Charles Rusnell reported that Athabasca University’s president was fired Wednesday without a vote of the institution’s entire board of governors. Athabasca University…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes about the continued excess mortality in the U.S. beyond the million-plus deaths already attributed to COVID-19. Blair Williams calls out…
I’ve Got Nothing Today
…except my contempt for willful stupidity. H/t Wu-Tang is for the Children Recommend this Post
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 3, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into how his laptop contents were released #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3HEdegW – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
After They Light The Match
The Republicans plan to hold the Biden Administration hostage over the national debt. They tried this once before — in 2011. This time around, Paul Krugman writes, things are different:…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013 via Wise Law Blog: The “Simple” Will: Not Always So Simple http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-simple-will-not-always-so-simple.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Deconstructing Loblaw’s inept self-justification
Loblaw’s inept efforts on social media to justify its super-sized inflation-fueling profits provide an opportune moment to remind shoppers of the crucial economic facts regarding supermarket profitability. Photo from Flickr.…