Accurately Capturing the Social Cost of Carbon
When policy makers think about climate change they sometimes take into consideration the whole impact of carbon regulation and reduction. The commonly held myth is that reducing carbon emissions will…
June 2023
The Bonnie And Clyde Factor
Donald Trump will be indicted for a second time today. Michael Harris isn’t convinced that he’ll ever face justice. To begin with, a judge who twice ruled in Trump’s favour…
When Hospitals Remove Protections
Dr. Kashif Pirzada wrote yesterday about this graphic from Robbie Meriales from the perspective of a doctor in a hospital in Toronto that’s lifting all mask mandates. “So much truth…
Resigning is Always an Option.
It was not realistic to expect David Johnston to resign as special rapporteur. It was always an option and I considered what it would imply once the conservatives made him…
With half of UCP Caucus in cabinet, more MLA perks to come, we get a glimpse of Danielle Smith’s unity strategy
As of right now, fully half of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Caucus is in cabinet. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). A cabinet with 24 members (25…
Conservatives clash over housing
What do I know about Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre? He hates our prime minister. He loves cryptocurrency. If he’s elected PM, he will fire the governor of the Bank of…
So what did David Johnston actually say?
We’re watching history being rewritten in real time. The discredited election interference allegations are now supposedly “credible” and the Johnston report that proved they were exaggerations or lies is now…
New issue – check it out!
Check it out! https://t.co/dgQcPvmarB — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 12, 2023
Dangerous actors — corporate and political
Progressive punishment is not enough to regulate behaviour when an offender has extraordinary wealth. To a corporation like Teck Resources Ltd. — market capitalization $29 billion — inconsequential fines are…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that the same plutocrats who have chosen to value the lives of most of humanity at nil are pouring…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 12, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Corrections defends Bernardo’s privacy, as it faces calls to detail transfer reason #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/4j9j8vns – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of June 12, 2023
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Rural and Urban Areas Have Less Depressions
Where you live matters in almost every way imaginable, and there’s now more evidence that your location impacts your mental health. We now know that what has been colloquially known…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 12, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 12, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Prince Harry a no-show at court hearing in suit against tabloid publisher…
Ideology and Indoctination
We’ve got marches and rallies surfacing, sometimes right outside of schools, with people chanting, “Leave the kids alone” in order to put an end to “gender ideology.” What does this…
Ford Flails at Foes.
We won’t have Ontario premier Doug Ford to kick around much this summer. He will be up polluting the air in Muskoka on his gas-guzzling water craft. Before he fled…
Google and Facebook may be stealing, but not from news media
Google and Facebook are stealing money, but they’re not taking it from newspapers—they have been stealing from their own customers. Photo from Flickr. Are Google and Facebook stealing? It seems…
The Politicization of the Beast
Welcome to “Life in a Conservative Province” also known as “they say the wackiest things.” “They” being conservative premiers who say idiotic things when asked: how do you reconcile your…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Press reports that the Ford PCs’ COVID negligence includes shutting down a rapid test program still distributing hundreds of thousands…