Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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2023
My latest: your Royal Hypocrite-ness
When you’ve concluded that the media are “destroying our mental health,” is it a good idea to then do multi-platform media interviews on multiple continents? When “public pressure” about your…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 10, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Dress code ordered after Oakville teacher wears prosthetic breasts #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3ZoZw9s – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
America’s theatre of the absurd
“Macdeath.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephanie Desmon interviews Ziyad Al-Aly about the reality that anybody infected with COVID-19 faces a substantial risk of heart problems as a…
Catching Illegal Fishers
Many people reduce their meat intake (which is good!) by swapping it with another animal protein source of fish. The problem here lies in how fishing is done around the…
Conning on Electoral Reform.
You can prove just about anything with polls. I was laughing the other day at a poll for Fair Vote Canada that claimed 76 per cent of Canadians wanted a…
Think tanks to Canadians: Do what we say or be prepared to freeze in the dark!
Without decisive changes in public and government attitudes, “Canada faces a decline in living standards and a crippling dependence on foreign fuels within the next 10 years.” That Trudeau guy…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erin Durkin writes about the failure of the U.S.’ government to deal with the growing impact of long COVID – and the likelihood…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 9, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: After 6-Year-Old Is Accused in Shooting, a Murky Legal Path #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3VXM3m4 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Canada’s airline industry doesn’t need more competition. It needs a public alternative
Air Canada Boeing 737-8 Max aircraft parked at the Marana Pinal Airpark, Tucson, Arizona. Photo from Flickr. Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s recent statement that increasing competition in Canada’s airline…
Pompeii Powered by Polymer Panels
Historic sites that attract a lot of tourists know that if they loose their historical look that the tourists will stop coming, so how do you locally produce renewable energy…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of January 9, 2023
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The Kraken
The latest COVID variant has arrived. Some scientists are calling it “the Kraken.” Andrew Nikiforiuk writes: It has arrived in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. The global spread of…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 9, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 9, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: 19-year-old arrested for Twitter threats against Parliament Hill, others Meta Fined $414…
Free Enterprise, Not Free Rein.
Once when introducing former premier Bill Davis at a function, I put on a little too much emphasis when I said “And on my far right is Premier Bill Davis.”…
Some neat stuff
And here’s some more neat stuff. First, some great articles — – From the New York Times, a 2023 Astronomy and Space Calendar that you can add to your Google…
From the folks who brought you sovereignty within a united Canada, ‘just transition’ is a divisive, polarizing term!
Sonya Savage is an intelligent woman with an impressive resume in government, the legal profession, and the energy industry. Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (Photo: JonathanWilkinson.ca). So presumably Alberta’s…
Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Government Buildings: Some Reaction from Canadian Far-Right
This past Friday was the second anniversary of the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. but supporters of former president Donald Trump. By this point we know the…