Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare
“Business is Booming.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of US and NATO bombing, was overthrown…
September 2023
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 19, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario court dismisses sex workers’ Charter challenge #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4rswssf6 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Covid or Climate: Can’t it be both?
In a local school board meeting from last June, in which they discussed their plan to remove HEPAs in rooms that had mechanical ventilation added (as if it’s and either/or…
“You’re what this war is all about”—or not
A boy looking at an Israeli soldier in front of the West Bank barrier. Photo by Justin McIntosh/Wikimedia Commons. While reading Focus. Click. Wind., a new Canadian novel by writer…
Liberals Cannot Count.
It looks as though the Ontario liberals have almost doubled their membership. And they are busy arguing about it. I would be more impressed and might even care if people…
American attitudes toward climate change
A 2022 study1 by investigators from Yale and George Mason universities reported survey results after Americans were questioned about climate change. I suspect ignorance would be lower and expressions of…
Round of Accommodations for All!
Last fall, when I started back to school for the first time in a couple decades, WLU had mask mandates, which was such a relief for anyone trying to avoid…
India is no ally
Trudeau reaching out to Poilievre and Singh on the Indian-ordered assassination is how Parliament is supposed to work. Looks good on all of them.
Precarious times
If we paid more attention to impacts of climate change, we would demand our governments take immediate and effective action, not offer promises that solutions will somehow be in place…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Will Stone discusses what’s still a limited state of knowledge around long COVID even as it continues to strike – and cause devastating…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 18, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheday: TikTok hit with hefty fine in Europe for past failings safeguarding youth privacy #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4ysets56 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
iNaturalist Goes Its Own Way
Way back in 2011 we took at a new app that helps to identify the world around, back then it was to help the California redwoods. That app is iNaturalist…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 18, 2023
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Housing
The only way to solve the housing crisis is to cap foreign and corporate investment in Canadian residential properties. The post Housing first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 18, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 18, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump Seeks Recusal of Judge in Federal Elections Case These are the…
No Ties That Bind.
We note that the majority of Canadians have realized that there is no reason for Canada to continue to have a monarch. Charley definitely does not cut it. His wife…
Today’s News: Brandolini’s Law and the Gish Gallop and existential stupidity
As Samwise says, Well, I’m back! Lately I have been trying to figure out why everything in American politics has become such a shit-show — the Trump disaster, abortion rights,…
Political Leadership in Crisis
“We’d like to know why we have not heard from you. Surely the suffering of our children merits more communication than a single tweet.” – Open letter to Danielle Smith…
The Weirdness of Now
This morning I listened to a Naomi Klein interview from this week about her very different type of book, while reading a prescient Geroge Monbiot article that he reposted from…
Save the date: London (UK) in May 2024
I’m pleased to share a ‘save the date’ for study tour: London (UK) in May 2024. Here’s the link: https://cihcanada.ca/calendar-by-month/calendar-by-list/ For this particular event, there will be two components: a…