Fernbank Road Pond Photo Versions
Slideshow of photos taken along the Fernbank Road Pond in Stittsville in July 2023 with my Panasonic Lumix FZ100 camera and edited with Photoshop Elements 2023, Simply Good Pictures 5,…
August 2023
Accelerating climate change
Eliminating methane emissions offers huge potential for quick, affordable climate action. Modern technology makes identification of leakage relatively simple, but industry and governments are dedicated to increased fossil fuel production.…
Kagarlitsky: Letter from prison
Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist. Photo by Alexander Demyanchuk/TASS. Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally renowned scholar and political activist, was arrested on July 25 by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michelle Gamage and Katie Hyslop report on the grassroots push for better anti-COVID-19 planning in British Columbia schools. And in case there’s…
My latest: we love covfefe
BOSTON – A few years back, Jean Chrétien said this: “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 29, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Parents must be fully involved’ in student’s decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yc7e5rh8 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Bailey’s Baaaack … and He’s Pissed
Apparently, J. Michael Bailey is “back”, and he wants to make himself out as another Jordan Peterson – beset by the onslaught of “woke” attacking his work. Bailey’s the same…
Bike Riding is Not Just a Phase
Every cyclists knows that riding a bike equals freedom, you can go where you want when you want and don’t need trillions of dollars of infrastructure to operate one. Electric…
Postmedia uses junk science to make its case for digital millions
Image from Pixabay Non-scholars tend to be impressed by studies that are seemingly scientific but on closer inspection simply don’t hold water. They are often offered by our news media…
We See What We Want to See
Lots of people still don’t quite understand how Covid spreads or how serious it is, causing mass disabilities and continuing to cause significantly more deaths that traffic collisions, although traffic…
Singh’s Song.
New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh’s turbans might be bright and colorful but his beard is graying. It is also showing a little more trimming, in contravention of the dictates…
Conservatives Turned Into a Soft-core Hate Party So Gradually, I Hardly Noticed
How in the ever-loving Eff could someone not realize that the Conservative Party of Canada was now a party willing to weaponize hatred to gain support, money, and Internet trolls?…
Ford government fails to respond to 72% increase in COVID inpatient days, deepening the capacity crisis
COVID infections continue to drive up hospital costs and inpatient hospitalizations in Ontario. For the most recent fiscal year (April 1, 2022- March 31, 2023) hospital stays related to COVID…
28% increase in COVID hospitalizations compounds Ontario hospital capacity crisis
COVID infections continue to drive up hospital costs and inpatient hospitalizations in Ontario. For the most recent fiscal year (April 1, 2022- March 31, 2023) hospital stays related to COVID…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Apoora Mandavilli writes that cleaner air is essential to avoid the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Elizabeth Hlavinka discusses the severe impact of…
BRICS: Getting bigger, but is it any stronger?
From left, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 28, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge temporarily blocks Texas ban on gender-affirming care for most minors #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://tinyurl.com/y5et222a – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Homelessness among Indigenous peoples
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness and have just released Chapter 6, which focuses on homelessness experienced by Indigenous peoples—especially in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. A ‘top…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of August 28, 2023
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Monumental Cowardice
Today, a judge in Washington will set the date for Donald Trump’s trial for attempting to overthrow the government of the United States. Instead of being appalled by what Trump…