Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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2023
The Anti-Trans Movement Is A ReInstatement Of Patriarchy
Although the current backlash against transgender women (trans women) has its roots in a branch of feminism, it is no longer arguably a “feminist” discussion. In fact, there’s a considerable…
My latest: the Felon-in-Chief
Want to protect classified government documents? Tuck them in old bound volumes of legislative committee proceedings. Nobody will ever find and read them, guaranteed. Unfortunately, however, people in government have…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Piers Forster reports on new research showing that both greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures continue to push past all recorded records. Andrew…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 13, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman could be forced to cancel August wedding due to ongoing divorce court delays #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3kkk5hh9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
The Thing About Religious Fundamentalists
The thing About religious fundamentalists is that they expect you to base your life and your belief system and morality on religious texts written three thousand years ago, before: - The…
The Thing About Religious Fundamentalists
The thing About religious fundamentalists is that they expect you to base your life and your belief system and morality on religious texts written three thousand years ago, before: –…
Accurately Capturing the Social Cost of Carbon
When policy makers think about climate change they sometimes take into consideration the whole impact of carbon regulation and reduction. The commonly held myth is that reducing carbon emissions will…
The Bonnie And Clyde Factor
Donald Trump will be indicted for a second time today. Michael Harris isn’t convinced that he’ll ever face justice. To begin with, a judge who twice ruled in Trump’s favour…
When Hospitals Remove Protections
Dr. Kashif Pirzada wrote yesterday about this graphic from Robbie Meriales from the perspective of a doctor in a hospital in Toronto that’s lifting all mask mandates. “So much truth…
Resigning is Always an Option.
It was not realistic to expect David Johnston to resign as special rapporteur. It was always an option and I considered what it would imply once the conservatives made him…
With half of UCP Caucus in cabinet, more MLA perks to come, we get a glimpse of Danielle Smith’s unity strategy
As of right now, fully half of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Caucus is in cabinet. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). A cabinet with 24 members (25…
Conservatives clash over housing
What do I know about Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre? He hates our prime minister. He loves cryptocurrency. If he’s elected PM, he will fire the governor of the Bank of…
So what did David Johnston actually say?
We’re watching history being rewritten in real time. The discredited election interference allegations are now supposedly “credible” and the Johnston report that proved they were exaggerations or lies is now…
New issue – check it out!
Check it out! https://t.co/dgQcPvmarB — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 12, 2023
Dangerous actors — corporate and political
Progressive punishment is not enough to regulate behaviour when an offender has extraordinary wealth. To a corporation like Teck Resources Ltd. — market capitalization $29 billion — inconsequential fines are…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that the same plutocrats who have chosen to value the lives of most of humanity at nil are pouring…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 12, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Corrections defends Bernardo’s privacy, as it faces calls to detail transfer reason #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/4j9j8vns – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of June 12, 2023
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Rural and Urban Areas Have Less Depressions
Where you live matters in almost every way imaginable, and there’s now more evidence that your location impacts your mental health. We now know that what has been colloquially known…