Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jonathan Lambert discusses how politicized messages have been used to weaponize uncertainty and changing information during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jonathan…
March 2023
The Value Of Self-Censorship
I am one who firmly believes that far too many people are far too easily offended today, whether it is reflected in demands to tear down statues because of historical…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 3, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: B.C. will make contraception free — a first in Canada #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3KQjJ3i – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
My latest: are we a serious country?
The facts of the election interference are well known, by now. A hostile foreign power, acting on the direct orders of its leader, conspired with sympathizers — and traitors, frankly…
Biden’s Climate Plan
Paul Krugman believes that Joe Biden’s climate plan is a big deal — for two reasons: The first reason to believe that Biden’s policy may be a big deal is…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from November 10, 2005
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from November 10, 2005 via Wise Law Blog: Child Support in Canada – “Days do Not Equal Dollars” http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2005/11/child-support-in-canada-days-do-not.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
BC’s logging industry is using mill closures as a political tool in its fight against regulation
Timber harvesting in British Columbia. Photo from iStock. Two narratives about BC’s disappearing forests and logging industry have made national news over the last few months. On the one hand,…
Mitzie For Mayor!
Not knowing liberal MPP Mitzie Hunter, she has already earned my support for mayor of Toronto. Mitzie is planning to be in Hamilton for the liberal party annual convention on…
Pierre Poilievre’s Nazi Nightmare
Pierre Poilievre has been crawling through the right-wing sewer from a very early age. He hung out with kooky weirdos even before he joined the bigots of the Reform Party.He…
Pierre Poilievre’s Nazi Nightmare
Pierre Poilievre has been crawling through the right-wing sewer from a very early age. He hung out with kooky weirdos even before he joined the bigots of the Reform Party.He…
Pierre Poilievre’s Nazi Nightmare
Pierre Poilievre has been crawling through the right-wing sewer from a very early age. He hung out with kooky weirdos even before he joined the bigots of the Reform Party.…
Conservatives and the CBC
Pierre Poilievre has trotted out a recurrent theme in Conservative election platforms—he will “defund” the CBC. (Is “defund” a steal from woke-speak?) This is hardly surprising. The CBC is the…
Understanding Long Covid
A couple days ago, Martin Kulldorff, a Swedish biostatistician, was at a White House roundtable discussing Covid when he said, “We knew about since 430 BC, since the Athenian plague…
The girl name list, from Aabish to Zunaira
Last week, as you recall (I hope), I issued my annual deep dive into baby boy names of 2022 in Alberta. This week, let’s check out the ‘babies born as…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Stanford responds to the alt-right’s demonization of liveable communities by pointing out what a 15-minute city actually means. And Monika Korzun…
Forty-seven signs of the Apocalypse (#47)
From the Book of Renovations: And lo, there will come a time of Great Home Improvement and truly, it will be a time of Wailing… The post Forty-seven signs of…
Why news of population decline and economic slowdown isn’t necessarily a bad thing
On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000 people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 2, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto condo owner shocked when hit with $27,000 insurance bill #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/41D7IEa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away?
What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift to “my children”, does that include…
What Have We Learned?
Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan look back over the last ten years and make the following observations: As we look back over the past decade, there are a number of…