Collision 2023 Day 1
I’m at Collision conference today in Toronto looking for some cool new good things to share. I’ll update this post as I find stuff. A record-breaking 30 percent of startups…
June 2023
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Henrietta Cook reports on new data as to the number of people dying in hospitals as a result of the spread of…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 27, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Olivia Chow elected mayor of Toronto, CP24 declares #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mtxk43wb – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
The rise of global class struggle
Intersyndicale parading during a demonstration for the defense of public services, Dijon, France, May 22, 2018. Photo by Haldu/Wikimedia Commons. After years of passivity in the face of upper class…
Teaching in the Face of a Bleak Future
I can’t imagine teaching right now. This post is a mishmash of thought around teaching at such a momentous time in history. Well, momentous for us. I’ve only been retired…
Leadership Lost.
Canadians climb mountains seeking leadership. We have seen the problems at all levels. In our communities, in our provinces and across our country, we feel the same frustrations. But resolutions…
Today’s edition of "Christ, what an asshole!"
Today’s edition of Christ What An Asshole is American cycling cheater Lance Armstrong, who wrote a widely-read anti-trans tweet thread this weekend which has been universally panned. Lance Armstrong is…
Yes, Danielle Smith can just apologize and shrug off her ethical failings – so it’s time for a new NDP strategy
Irfan Sabir, the NDP Opposition’s justice critic, wasn’t wrong when he complained on Saturday that Danielle Smith shouldn’t be able to rattle off a meaningless apology in the Legislature and…
#TOpoli
@anabailaoTO's team ran a terrific campaign. @oliviachow ran a winning one. Congrats to all, win or lose. #topoli pic.twitter.com/D7iMiVxBbX — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 27, 2023
Predicting the Best and Worst of Digital Life By 2035
From: Elon-Pew’s Predicting the Best and Worst of Digital Life By 2035. Stephen Downes, an expert with the Digital Technologies Research Centre of the National Research Council of Canada, wrote,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Dearing, Gregory Cooper and Simon Willcock discuss the doom loop which is seeing worse-than-predicted effects of the climate breakdown resulting in vicious…
Preaching misogyny
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the biggest Protestant denomination in the US, descending from Baptists who settled in the American colonies in the 17th century. The southerners broke away…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 26, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto heads to the polls to elect a new mayor today. Here’s what to know #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mw3kb7ew – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Speed Cameras = Safer Streets
I live in a city where the police stopped enforcing traffic laws, so we’ve seen increased harm done by car drivers on people outside of cars. When the laws of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of June 26, 2023
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
A Pup Tent In Their Own Backyard
Chantal Hebert writes that Pierre Poilievre’s performance has not been stellar. He appears to be taking the same road that his two predecessors took: Nine months into his tenure, there…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 26, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 26, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Barrie’s homelessness plan is being called ‘a clear violation of basic human…
Frankl’s Logotherapy
The second half of Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning was added in 1962 to provide greater detail of Logotherapy, in which patients must hear difficult things in contrast to psychoanalysts…
The Justin Shuffle.
The other day writer Althia Raj wrote an opinion piece in the Toronto Star about a possible cabinet shuffle by Justin Trudeau. I was pleased to see the research that…
How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change
Make Big Oil Pay march, San Francisco, 2010. Photo by Steve Rhodes/Flickr. In medieval times, gamekeepers trained dogs to the hunt by setting them on the trail of a dead…