Saturday Photo: None, Because We Were Playing…
Taking a break this week because our youngest grandchild came for a visit. Lots of activity, and no time to think blog.
July 2023
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 10, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers — and shoppers who despise receipt checks #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/5ejzyks3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Will Kindergarteners be Better at Fact Checking than Boomers?
Figure 1 from Cook, Ellerton, and Kinkead 2018. CC BY 3.0 We tach kids how to read so why not teach them to understand how to critique what they read?…
Journalists abandoned Julian Assange and slit their own throats
“When Goliaths Infiltrate the Fourth Estate.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act…
A Quick Speculation On Titan Submersible
I’m mostly putting this up as a way to keep a record of my own own speculation on the sequence of events that happened with the Titan Submersible when it…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of July 10, 2023
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 10, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 10, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Prisons head said process to notify minister of Bernardo transfer was followed…
On Training Children
I have some nuanced or maybe fence-sitting views about Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) that I’ll try to sort out below. As a trustee, I went to a PD session in…
Waiting for Some Leadership.
This is not to complain about John Fraser’s performance as interim Ontario liberal leader at Queen’s Park. John has been doing his usual good job without much resources. It is…
U.N. “climate change is out of control”
Regardless of science, the corporate world and governments in Canada remain determined to increase fossil fuel production and consumption. Under the NDP, British Columbia continues to provide direct and indirect…
Harper’s Handshake
Recently former prime minister Stephen Harper tweeted about the “importance of centre-right parties strengthening their collaboration” The tweet was accompanied by a photo of Harper shaking hands with the Hungarian…
Harper reveals new conservative colours
Stephen Harper has recently been promoting closer ties between Canadian conservatives and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. Harper is chair of the International Democrat Union, a global alliance of…
‘Tech Giants’ vs ‘Media Giants’: Who Do We Want to Win?
There is a vicious false narrative spreading in the context of Bill C-18 and Bil C-11, blaming ‘tech giants’ for not playing ball with our sycophantic ‘local’ (but foreign-owned) media.…
Are You Listening, Mr. DeSantis?
Of course you aren’t. H/t Michael Warburton Recommend this Post
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Pomeroy writes that the establishment’s refusal to stop the transmission of COVID-19 has created a desperate need to account for the…
Then and now: the Asianadian and the radical spirit of community care
The Asianadian, a quarterly publication that ran from 1978 to 1985, established a national platform for then-emerging Asian-Canadian writers, artists, musicians, activists, and scholars like Sky Lee, Jim Wong-Chu, Joy…
Emperor’s New Clothes 2.0
Paul Krugman wrote about how someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes such “a crank”: “One sad but true fact of life is that most of the time conventional wisdom…
Is Brown on the In or Out?
You are never sure who is in with Ontario premier Doug Ford. Here he is breaking up the confusion over who does what for whom in Peel Region. He is…
Premier’s meeting with PM sparks petulantly hyperbolic ‘readout,’ Postmedia hysteria
Danielle Smith’s petulant afternoon “readout” from Friday’s Calgary Stampede meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests Alberta’s premier didn’t get very far trying to bully the feds into abandoning their…