Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ann Mallen offers a personal account of the effect of the continued COVID threat on people who are already immunocompromised, while Richard Woodbury…
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Legal Tweet of the Day: February 13, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Metrolinx ordered to halt tree removal, once again, at Osgoode Hall #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3E4EaFu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of February 13, 2023
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
They Make A Lot Of Noise
Pierre Poilievre is playing his victim card. He claims that the head of the CBC is picking on him. Michael Harris writes: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is now slagging the…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of February 13, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 13, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League…
The left makes a comeback in Ecuador’s local elections
Voting in Ecuador, 2021. Photo courtesy AS/COA/AP. On February 5, a series of important votes occurred in Ecuador. Roughly 80 percent of Ecuadoreans voted on 23 provincial prefects, 221 mayors,…
John, But Not Forgotten.
Did you know that there was a time in Canadian politics when the established news media did not report on the peccadillos of politicians? We should go back to those…
The curious case of Canada’s ‘tax watchdog,’ which hasn’t barked at the scandalous RStar program
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is missing in action! Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a former registered lobbyist for the controversial RStar scheme, now in the process of implementing it (Photo: Alberta…
The RStar Debacle (Who’s going to clean up this mess?)
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” — opening scene, Star Wars The first thing I thought of when I heard the word RStar was the opening…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Maura Hohman discusses how COVID-19 has been found to cause increased heart problems in young people (among other harm to health) –…
"you guys" revisited: further thoughts on the language police
If you know, you know. In October 2020, I wrote a post about the expression you guys, and whether or not using guys as a gender-neutral term excludes transgender people:…
It’s Not Going Away
In my post about homelessness the other day, I wrote, In Toronto, a motion that would have kept warming centres open from November to April was defeated, despite shelter space…
Will We Have An Election?
They met and Justin offered the premiers more money. Chantal Hebert offers her take on the situation: A boost in health-care spending was always expected to be one of the…
Making the case for W1M1V in Don Valley North
Why I’m running for OLP VP Communications On Saturday I attended the Don Valley North PLA AGM on Saturday. Good discussion around rebuilding and engaging. And nice to catch up…
Lost Liberalism.
We have a problem in Canada. His name is Justin Trudeau. Since being handed the leadership of the liberal party in Canada back in 2013, he has dismissed the structure…
Guest post: The Website that Time Forgot
I’ve spent a lot of time on the Alberta Labour Relations Board website this past week and as a result I was reminded of this clever satire sent to me…
Today’s Funny Stuff: Baseball and Billings Bridge and Penquins and more
I know I’m pushing the season a little — six weeks until opening day! – but in honour of Superbowl Weekend, here’s some baseball stuff: Some of the worst baseball…