Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 24, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge who won’t marry same-sex couples cites Supreme Court ruling for Christian…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge who won’t marry same-sex couples cites Supreme Court ruling for Christian…
We know that having friends can help with reducing risk of dementia in old age, but what do people with small (or nonexistent ) social circles do? They can take…
A residential building in the city of Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, heavily damaged during the Russian occupation. Photo by Jesco Denzel/Bundesregierung. Few people came out of America’s 20-year war…
After Shaw acquired Freedom Mobile in 2016, the company targeted Rogers, Bell and Telus, including in this 2019 ad campaign depicting the big three as ‘monolithic wireless.’ Photo courtesy Freedom…
He received the Order of Canada, profoundly helped many people with addiction on the streets of Vancouver, and is much loved and admired, but some of Dr. Gabor Maté’s claims…
Not being on the inside with the conservatives, I do not make accusations about things that I cannot prove. Knowing Patrick Brown, as I do, and having followed Pierre Poilievre…
Times might be tough for many in British Columbia, but executives managing public pension funds are doing okay. Even better than okay. The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCi) looks…
This thread of comments of how Covid is affecting younger people encapsulates many of the attitudes affecting the people most affected – and general ableism. I used pseudonyms, and I’m…
In 1966, the original director of the Godzilla series, Ishiro Honda, left to do other projects and left the next film — Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, aka Godzilla vs…
My interest in Taylor Swift's oeuvre is less than zero. But when Canada's Prime Minister begged her to come here, and she did not even dignify it with a response,…
When Anti-Flag's lead singer was credibly accused of rape, and the rest of the band said precisely nothing, that was it for me. Burned my AF stuff. They probably don't…
There is a common assumption that Adolf Hitler was elected to the position of Chancellor of Germany. That isn’t strictly correct. In 1933, the Nazi Party held the most seats…
What if I have 5,001 friends? pic.twitter.com/5K2qwEPMTP — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 23, 2023
Maybe 20 years go when I began transforming out little lawn into a wild garden, I bought three hosta plants. They did extremely well, and I’ve transplanted them to several…
Can a movie featuring aliens, dinosaurs, spaceships, one of the main actors from Star Wars, and a giant asteroid about to crash into the planet be bad? Sadly, yes. The…
“Witness.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Films about war, shorn of the bone crushing fear, the putrid stench of the corpses, the deafening noise of explosions, the constant exhaustion and the…
It all started with the conservative Ontario attorney general. He and some of his fellow conservative lawyers in Ontario wanted to be able to use the ‘King’s Counsel’ designation. It…
Irritated by a question from an impertinent reporter about the makeup of her “expert panel” on Alberta’s energy future led by former Wildrose Party president David Yager, Premier Danielle Smith…
A bit more on Cov-AIDS from Daniel Brittain Dugger because people need to be aware of the similarities between these diseases to, just maybe, provoke them to do everything they…