About eating meat
The Colorado River and those who depend on it are in trouble. A once-in-a-millennium drought now entering its third decade is shrinking water levels to disturbing numbers. The seven states…
March 2023
Coddling kids does them no good
I’m glad I’m not raising kids today, and not just because I am old enough to be a grandfather by now. I am worried that the new generation, the kids…
Not the Chaucer You’re Looking For
I received a couple of new Chaucer books recently and, despite my love of reading Chaucer, frankly, I was disappointed by both. My expectations for both greatly exceeded what little…
WHAT KIND OF VOTER WILL YOU BE IN MAY?
We are all starting to come to grips with the importance of the May Alberta election. According to polls, it is very difficult to say now if the UCP or…
WHAT KIND OF VOTER WILL YOU BE IN MAY?
We are all starting to come to grips with the importance of the May Alberta election. According to polls, it is very difficult to say now if the UCP or…
WHAT KIND OF VOTER WILL YOU BE IN MAY?
We are all starting to come to grips with the importance of the May Alberta election. According to polls, it is very difficult to say now if the UCP or…
60,000 can’t be all wrong! Well, they can, I guess.
60,000 followers. Watch out, @taylorswift13. I'm in your rear view. pic.twitter.com/JTG1HLRXuF — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 17, 2023
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 17, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa says Human Rights Commission discriminated against its Black employees #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3mYxm6A – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Ukraine’s death by proxy
“Proxyboy.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. There are many ways for a state to project power and weaken adversaries, but proxy wars are one of the most cynical. Proxy wars devour…
The Will Rogers Of Politics
Despite all of the green virtue-signaling that comes from Ottawa on a regular basis, those who follow such things know that it is largely empty rhetoric that hides some very,…
Complete Insanity
Republicans have been threatening to default on the national debt. Developments this week underscore how insane that idea is. Catherine Rempel writes: Recent financial-market turmoil — in regional U.S. banks,…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from July 24, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from July 24, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Developments in Access to Legal Information Online https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/developments-in-access-to-legal.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Truth, At Last.
It has really been annoying me. Instead of spending money cleaning up its act, this so-called Pathways Alliance of tar sands exploiters is spending large amounts of money telling us…
National and international groups call for governments to take action against OceanaGold
Land defenders erect a barricade against OceanaGold mining operations in Barangay Didipio, the Philippines. Photo courtesy J. Bonifacio/Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment. On March 1, seventy-seven national and international…
what i’m reading: empire of pain, the secret history of the sackler family
Buried on page 364 of the hardcover edition of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty — almost two-thirds into the book — is one sentence that,…
Making Sense of World Events
Making sense of world events is always a challenge. Corporate media reports are usually superficial and misleading, lack historical perspective and are hobbled by ideological blinkers that prevent alternative, critical…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rosemary Boyton and Daniel Altman discuss how any immunity from prior COVID-19 infection is waning as time passes and ever-changing variants circulate…
Today’s News: David Johnston to the rescue
I do keep wondering what, exactly, this China scandal is all about: Seriously. Watching journalists in Canada is like watching 7 year olds playing soccer. Just a gaggle of kids…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 16, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Major General Dany Fortin, military officer acquitted of sexual assault, sues government, PM for $6M #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3JIbAwK – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
The ‘1.5 million’ homes meme must stop
The ‘we need 1.5 million homes’ meme is a lie that helps justify plowing over perfectly good farmland and natural spaces. The post The ‘1.5 million’ homes meme must stop…