Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 20, 2023
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November 2023
Cynical Politics, Propaganda, and Hardening Hearts
I awoke this morning to hear an article in the news about Israel’s latest actions in Gaza. I won’t bore you with the details here. What I did find myself…
Anger And Wisdom
The tide is running against Justin Trudeau. Michael Harris writes: Poll after poll has shown that a lot of Canadians are stomping their feet for the current prime minister to…
Tax cuts are forever
As Marianne Cerilli argues, the NDP has become progressive on identity and social issues, and conservative on economic and fiscal policy. Photo by Bryan Scott/Flickr. The 2023 Manitoba election will…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 20, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 20, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: What is C-58, the government’s new anti-replacement-worker legislation? Ontario to ban unpaid…
The Moonshot to End the Pandemic
A recent paper explains how easily we could stop the pandemic even with current highly transmissible, immune evasive variants. Barry Hunt explained the paper’s findings: Rt typically hovers just around…
A Cinderella Solution.
It is really the best solution for the Ontario liberals. They need Bonnie Crombie for the ‘coup de grâce’ on the Ford conservatives. One term for a pragmatic liberal such…
Surveying the Substacks: from the Wingnut Grievance Bubble to the imminent end of the baby boomer generation
First, at Everyone Is Entitled To My Own Opinion, Jeff Tiedrich writes Sporky and the Space Nazi get screwed by the Wingnut Grievance Bubble with a guest appearance by the…
Danielle Smith Says the Darndest Things
Last week Danielle Smith was interviewed by Matt Galloway, the host of CBC’s The Current. Listening to her I was reminded of Art Linkletter’s show Kids Say the Darndest Things.…
Sick society
Ultra-wealthy elites…Political corruption…Vast inequality… These problems aren’t new — in the late 1800s they dominated the country during America’s first Gilded Age. We overcame these abuses back then, and we…
Israel is shutting down its human laboratory in Gaza
“No Pain No Gain.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. CAIRO, Egypt — The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s drones,…
Saturday Photo: Visit to the Reserve
A little outing Friday to the Musée des Abénakis in Odanak on the St-François river. Very interesting, and afterwards lunch at Café Masko.
Compassion as the Antidote for Capitalism
A Taylor Swift fan took the brave position of calling out the beloved superstar, and everyone else involved, for the death of Ana Clara and many in need of medical…
Profits, paycheques and the financialization of Canada’s grocery chains
Photo by Stephen Weppler/Flickr The news that workers at more than a dozen No Frills stores in Ontario could be on strike if wage demands aren’t met is becoming a…
Promises, Promises.
You can compare the current leadership race for the Ontario liberals to a schoolyard race. There is still time for somebody to get tripped. It’s a mixed race. It’s the…
H * l y S h * t! Who could possibly have known why China picked on those Two Michaels back in 2020?
A few days less than three years ago, I asked in this space: “Why did China’s government pluck the Two Michaels from among 300,000 Canadians in China?” Michael Kovrig (Photo:…
Here’s a great Doonesbury cartoon
Isn’t this hilarious? Post by @beingliberal View on Threads Here is the link to the comic on Go Comics: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/11/12
Building grassroots tenant power in Toronto’s Oakwood-Vaughan
Organizers from the Oakwood-Vaughan Tenant Union protest at Toronto City Hall. Photo by Samantha Ponting. Oakwood-Vaughan, otherwise known as Oakwood Village, is a vibrant and diverse neighbourhood located in midtown…
Council’s First Year, Part 4
The final piece in the series in CollingwoodToday begins with an egregious error: “Collingwood’s Town Council, elected one year ago on Oct. 24, 2022, is celebrating their first year in…