Tanks not troops
A Leopard 2A4 tank from Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) travels on the Black Route of the 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Garrison Wainwright Training Centre in preparation for Exercise…
2023
Putting It to the Man.
As a youngster growing up in Toronto, hard on the heels of the Second World War, we had to take our lessons in bigotry in very large doses. And we…
Firing at Athabasca U suggests there are now two classes of public board members in Alberta – those appointed by the UCP and those not
Writing in The Tyee Thursday, Alberta-based investigative journalist Charles Rusnell reported that Athabasca University’s president was fired Wednesday without a vote of the institution’s entire board of governors. Athabasca University…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Wallace-Wells writes about the continued excess mortality in the U.S. beyond the million-plus deaths already attributed to COVID-19. Blair Williams calls out…
I’ve Got Nothing Today
…except my contempt for willful stupidity. H/t Wu-Tang is for the Children Recommend this Post
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 3, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into how his laptop contents were released #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3HEdegW – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
After They Light The Match
The Republicans plan to hold the Biden Administration hostage over the national debt. They tried this once before — in 2011. This time around, Paul Krugman writes, things are different:…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013 via Wise Law Blog: The “Simple” Will: Not Always So Simple http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-simple-will-not-always-so-simple.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Deconstructing Loblaw’s inept self-justification
Loblaw’s inept efforts on social media to justify its super-sized inflation-fueling profits provide an opportune moment to remind shoppers of the crucial economic facts regarding supermarket profitability. Photo from Flickr.…
Canada: One of the ‘biggest gangsters in Haiti’
Canadian Soldiers in Haiti. Photo courtesy Combat Camera/DND/Flickr. The Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), founded in 1981, works in solidarity with people standing up for self-determination, social justice and for…
Time, Tide and Schreiner.
It is too bad the Toronto School Board wants to switch Grade 12 literature from Shakespeare and Dickens to native Canadian writers. There will just be another demarcation in where…
"Abandoned to violence" – Ottawa People’s Commission first report
The Public Order Emergency Commission report is due this month, but already we have an initial report from the Ottawa People’s Commission — a community initiative set up last June…
Britain stumbles
Britain (and I suppose Canada) will soon celebrate a brand new king. Charles III will bring another new face to eleven centuries of English royalty. The nation, however, needs much…
Warning: Blog may be offensive to nobody
Late last year, Stanford University (one of those ritzy U.S. colleges that parents spend fortunes to send their kids to so they can brag their kid went to Stanford), issued…
New one. Iceland at 10:30 sunrise.
Iceland. New one. Had to get it out, and I did. pic.twitter.com/f9i8u1ZxvA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 2, 2023
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nicoletta Lanese reports on a new analysis showing that COVID-19 has become a leading cause of death among U.S. children. Ewen Callaway…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 2, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: 899 people received care from fake nurse at B.C. Women’s Hospital, health authority says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3Hx6VeX – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Can I make my own Will using an online form?
Beware. If you use an online form instead of a lawyer: 1. You aren’t getting personalized advice from a lawyer who has assessed your needs and interests. 2. Nobody is…
Is The Tide Turning?
Canadians have known economic pain for quite a while now. Glen Pearson writes: Canadians continue to feel that the ongoing impacts of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are having detrimental effects on…
More Trees Means Less Death
In the cold of winter you might not be thinking of the nice hot summer days as a negative thing. In the winter when temperatures get really low people suffer…