Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Al Jazeera reports on the World Meteorological Organization’s analysis showing that greenhouse gas emissions reached yet another new high in 2022. Fiona…
November 2023
My latest: two wars, two different responses
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin’s regime immediately commenced brutally killing Ukrainian civilians on a massive scale. Russia committed war crimes. It committed acts of rape and infanticide.…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 16, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: UK Plan to Send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda Is Unlawful, Supreme Court Says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/5n96xmaz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
The Frustrating Run-Around on Filtration Units in Schools
This is a long but very informative video about what happened when people tried to improve air quality in schools. This is a very loose collection of things said that…
The food police
A Winnipeg Police cruiser outside a No Frills grocery store on Goulet Avenue in Winnipeg. Photo courtesy CTV News. When you head to your local Winnipeg grocery store, what do…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Is a foreign Will valid in Ontario?
This can depend on the Will itself. Some factors to consider are: 1. Does the Will intend to apply to property in Ontario? 2. Can the words of the Will…
The inhumanity of Pakistan’s forced deportation of Afghan refugees
Refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan, near Islamabad, 2018. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Canada recently passed a milestone by announcing the resettlement of more than 40,000 Afghan refugees since the fall…
Whose Mess Is It?
It was no fun. I recently spent some time digging into what the pollsters have been telling us. They can be such a dreary bunch. And if they don’t like…
Preston Manning’s pandemic panel report wants more politicians, fewer docs calling public health shots
Have I got this straight? Preston Manning just made a recommendation to give politicians absolute authority over public health that was so excellent the Alberta government accepted it a week…
Such Elequence!
This took place at a school board meeting in Virginia. The rest is self-explanatory. Recommend this Post
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Francesca Paris examines the cognitive disability facing many younger American adults (among others) as a result of long COVID. – Trish Hennessy discusses…
Ed Mead Joins the Ancestors
“Regardless of when a general change in political consciousness may come to the U.S., the fact remains that the march of history and the forces of progress are on our…
Back to Red Onion State Prison — The Site of Entrenched Racism and Past Abuse (2023) by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
This piece was originally posted to RashidMoD.com on November 10, 2023. On October 30,2023, I was transferred to Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), a Virgina prison with an extensive history…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates November 14, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
I’m Getting Tired
The woes of the world are wearing me down. I therefore choose to change channels completely today and focus on comedy, one of the few escapes this world permits almost…
The ever-increasing dichotomy of America
Seven years ago, Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States. And he’s trying to come back for another round. The forces that brought him to power in…
On Legislating Kindness
If kind, other-centred behaviour isn’t entirely natural to us, then should it be legislated (more than it already is)? Many old timey philosophers agree that happiness is predicated on an…
Historic setback for complainants against police abuse in Québec
From the series “#ACAB” by Québecois photographer Benoit Paillé. Remember 2020? That year, the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer sparked a protest movement across North America,…