Effective Altruism
Coming out of the Silicon Valley libertarian sphere, Effective Altrusim is basically little more than 1980s era Reaganomics with a side order of philanthropy to paper over the rotting stench…
November 2023
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 13, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 13, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Donald Trump takes the stand to defend his business empire in New…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 13, 2023
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We Need to Backtrack and Explain the Disease
Kaveri Roy is an Assistant Professor of Nursing, and she explained how Covid works to her first year students last year in very simple terms, like this: “I teach patho…
Warnings issued and ignored years ago
Had they paid attention to science years ago, political and industrial leaders would have known the world was heading for a crisis. Climate change is widely recognized as an existential…
Trying Trump.
The trial that Donald Trump and his co-defendants are currently undergoing in New York City is not a question of guilt or innocence. The State of New York knows that…
Oddities and funny stuff: from the Valeriepieris circle to a bull riding a motorcycle
First up, the Valeriepieris circle, which is sorta fascinating. Out of a total world population of 8 billion, there are 4.2 billion living in this circle. And this is fascinating…
Here We Go Again: Restructuring AHS
According to Danielle Smith, AHS isn’t “truly accountable” and it’s been a “management problem” for quite some time. So she’s going to blow it up. This week some brave soul…
How It Began
When it all started, I immediately started reading news from China and Italy, figuring that what was happening there could easily happen here, and we should be prepared. Esther Hopkins…
Communications Constricted.
Ontario premier Doug Ford tends to bluster. Take the recent meeting of the premiers in Nova Scotia, where he claimed that the federal carbon levy was “the worst tax ever.”…
Chris Hedges: Letter to the children of Gaza
“Children of Gaza.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the…
Saturday Photo: Early Snow…
Snow this week, the second flurry of the year. My birthday is November 8, and last year was the first year since I arrived in Montreal decades ago that it…
My latest: charge them, prosecute them, convict them – then jail them
What is hate, and what isn’t? What words are against the law, and what words are allowed? Actions are easier to judge. When a six-year-old boy is stabbed to death…
as genocide continues in gaza: 11.11
The Palestine Project I almost missed my annual Remembrance Day post. While a handful of countries commemorate the most pointless and horrific of wars to end all wars, a genocide…
Council’s First Year Considered
I did a few facepalms while reading CollingwoodToday’s four-part piece on Collingwood Council’s first year in office. CwoodToday approached each of them with questions “about their accomplishments so far, to…
Remebrance Day 2023
In a world increasingly obsessed with Imperial Dreams, we must remember the cost of those dreams. Image: Saugeen Times
Caring, Grieving and Remembering When the World’s On Fire
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Caring, Grieving and Remembering When the World’s On Fire
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Culture of Uncare or Pandemic of Inhumanity
Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe coined the term “culture of uncare” to explain intentional efforts to sever links from one another and from the environment. She calls it “severing links,” but the…