Taming plastics
What would we do without plastics? Perhaps the greatest material humanity ever invented. They are used for everything from furniture to DVDs to heart valves to wind turbines, widely used…
November 2023
Mnusical interlude
Grace – Not Over Yet
And the winner is
Personal ranking of the five most irritating groups on social media, in descending order: 5. All partisans – all 4. Pro-convoy loons 3. “Anti-Zionist” haters 2. Anti-vax nutcases 1. TruAnon…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 24, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: 2,000 parents sign letter expressing concerns of ‘escalating incidents of antisemitism’ at Toronto schools #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/2ka3x7yk – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
A Brief History of Letting it Rip
Something, at some time, eventually, will be the last straw that finally gets people everywhere to change their behaviour around Covid. This is where I live, and I rarely see…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-health-care-reform-sex-offenders-and.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Just One Vote, Thank You.
Isn’t it generous of the nebbishes who think they run the liberal party in Ontario? They are letting us suckers tell them our second, third and even fourth choice for…
Between the sea and the Jordan …
Being an admirer of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I read with interest a recent column of his in The New York Times about the Palestine situation. One thing that particularly…
Emissions gap is really an emissions canyon
Progress in dealing with climate change is too slow to meet stated climate goals. The world is on course to see global temperatures rise as much as 2.9°C above preindustrial…
Premature PP Blew It
Leader of the Official Opposition shared Fox News BS in Parliament. Premature PP blew it.He got tricked by far-right Fox News propaganda and declared a terrorist incident when a spectacularly…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray examines how COVID-19 can cause lasting damage to the brain even without causing severe initial symptoms, while the British Heart…
Yasir Naqvi would lead the Ontario Liberals to disaster, so Nate Erskine-Smith’s alliance with him has pushed me to vote #1 for Bonnie Crombie
Liberal leadership candidate, MP and former Kathleen Wynne cabinet minister Yasir Naqvi doesn’t mean most of what he says. I simply do not think highly of the man nor of…
Can Wab Kinew mark a new dawn for Manitoba under self-imposed constraints?
Manitoba premier-elect Wab Kinew with his family on election night, October 3, 2023. Photo by Wab Kinew/X. The Manitoba election results on October 3, 2023 were historic and of fundamental…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 23, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: U.S. officials say ‘no indication’ Rainbow Bridge vehicle explosion was terrorist attack, after Canadian caution #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3fa6weec – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
We Know How This Story Ends
Recent polls suggest that Pierre Poilievre will be our next prime minister. Bob Hepburn writes that’s because neither the Liberals nor the NDP have figured out how to deal with…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale…
A Genius of a Virus
We’re starting to see more effects of Covid. Yesterday, biorisk consultant Conor Browne wrote about something many have been screaming into the void for some time now: “A core part…
Ed Broadbent: Canada’s most iconic social democrat?
Ed Broadbent, now 87, was the first NDP leader widely regarded by the Canadian public as a possible prime minister. Photo by Jeff Goode/Toronto Star Archives. Seeking Social Democracy: Seven…
Posing as Poilievre.
Is it better to have a leader of the conservative party who squints at you rather than continue to wear corrective lenses? This has been a puzzle. Why would you…