RBC, The Tar Sands & Externalities
We learn that the Tar Sands tailings pits will dump TRILLIONS of litres of waste into the Athabaska and other rivers. This has to stop. The post RBC, The Tar…
2023
Plague Update: If We Don’t Report It, It Doesn’t Exist
There's a clear reason this happened, and satirists around the world are noting it.https://t.co/QKs3LPOsXR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 17, 2023 On the eve of this Roughriders season, it's…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 17, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canadian coroners starting to reject excited delirium as cause of police-related deaths #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3KHePE0 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Ideological Soulmates
Well, it appears Pierre Poilievre, that would-be master disinformation-trafficker, has found his true soulmate in another man-child, Elon Musk. They have had a meeting of the minds when it comes…
Government-funded™️
Since every single one of us have received unemployment support, or Medicare, or a government cheque for something or the other, I propose that @elonmusk affix "government funded"' to every…
Trump In The Great White North
When Trump flags showed up as part of the Truckers’ Convoy in Ottawa, it was clear that the American Disease had drifted across our border. Michael Harris writes that Donald…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 17, 2023
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Coal Continues Collapse
One of the worst ways to generate electricity is to burn coal to heat water to spin turbines, the only reason this power generation exists is due to the cheap…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 17, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 17, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Fox News reaches settlement with Venezuelan businessman in election defamation case Ontario…
Preaching to the Con converted
I get that he's playing to his base, who mostly hate CBC. What I don't get is why he's not doing more to reach outside his base. Anyone? #cdnpoli #cpc…
The Cowbird’s Quest.
The ornithologist might study some strange birds in a lifetime, but there are also some strange birds in politics. There is that breed of cowbird, for example, that prefers to…
My first day on VIA Rail’s The Canadian: Toronto to Capreol, Ontario
VIA Rail’s cross country “The Canadian” — four-and-a-half days across Canada from Toronto to Vancouver — is something that has been on my bucket list for years. I set it…
Hiding From the Fourth Estate
Last week Danielle Smith announced her new “one question, no follow up” rule for journalists asking questions at her press conferences. She said the “one question” rule would apply to…
On Crime Waves and Policy
Much ink (most of it virtual) is being spilled these days about how “dangerous” our cities have become. Shootings, assaults and so on seem to take place on our transit…
Broken windows and broken lives
Russian opposition activist Konstantin Kotov protesting in support of Azat Miftakhov outside the General Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow, June 3, 2019. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. There is only one Russian…
what i’m reading: bread & roses: mills, migrants, and the struggle for the american dream
I’d be willing to bet my paycheque that Bruce Watson, author of Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream, did not want his book to…
At What Point is Inaction a Form of Eugenics??
This impressive and prescient thread worthy of saving is from Miles W. Griffis. He interweaves a speech from Vito Russo, AIDS activist, back and forth with current headlines on Covid-19…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kenyon Wallace writes that the only reason we’re not observing large COVID waves is that we’ve been pushed to accept a perpetual…
This weekend’s tonic from Chantal Hebert: “Is it time to step down? Five questions about Justin Trudeau’s future as he marks 10 years as Liberal leader.”
This weekend’s tonic from Chantal Hebert: “Is it time to step down? Five questions about Justin Trudeau’s future as he marks 10 years as Liberal leader…none of the would-be successors…