Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Adam Bienkov highlights the evidence from the UK’s COVID-19 inquiry which has demonstrated the utter neglect for public health from Boris Johnson and…
2023
Where are the police?
Anti-Semitism is out of control in this country. Where are the police? Where are the prosecutors?
Can Wab Kinew fix Manitoba’s health care crisis?
Premier Wab Kinew led the Manitoba New Democratic Party to a majority government on October 3, 2023. He did so with a disciplined campaign focused on highlighting the governing Progressive…
Joly = joke
This damned fool wants to elevate Hamas, a listed terrorist entity, to the “negotiating table.” What a farce we have become internationally. It’s just pathetic.
If You Are Of A Certain Age
… you will get this, the latest from Moudakis. Recommend this Post
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 30, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 30, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Ruling: “Virtual” Law Offices May Not Satisfy N.J. Ethics Regulations https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/ruling-virtual-law-offices-may-not.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
If we have the will, energy solutions are within reach
Methods of creating or capturing energy near demand points are gaining prominence and threatening the disruption of today’s giant utilities. A paper from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology suggests millions…
Will It Be Carney?
People are talking about Mark Carney. Max Fawcett writes: Over the last week, two things have become abundantly obvious to anyone watching Canadian politics. First, Justin Trudeau is in deep,…
Consumption is Back in Vogue
Tuberculosis is making a comeback! (Mass-consumerism never left.) About 2 million people die worldwide from TB, but not here, right!?! Now there’s a case in the University of Victoria and…
The Brass of Brassard.
The city of Barrie, that sits in the middle of Ontario, has two conservative members of parliament. One of the two is Barrie-Innisfil MP John Brassard. He told the local…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bryan Harris, Steve Bernard and Chris Campbell discuss the danger that a drying Amazon rain forest will accelerate the climate breakdown. –…
I’m voting #1 for Nate Erskine-Smith and #2 for Bonnie Crombie, regardless of what Nate and Yasir say today
I’ve been doing a tonne of thinking about which candidate will get my first choice on my ranked ballot in the Ontario Liberal leadership vote later this month. A lot…
Quebec 2023. Not Germany 1933.
Quebec so far this week: • Synagogue firebombed • Imam says Jews should be exterminated • Pro-Palestinian screams “kike” at Jewish student • Professor calls Jewish student “a whore,” says…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 9, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: McMaster reviewing Hamilton cardiologist’s post calling for pro-Palestinian protesters to be deported #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/ms8cktaj – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Restructuring AHS – The Wrong Way
I was never particularly impressed with the AHS “Superboard” concept that was instituted in 2009 – it got some thing right (like centralizing procurement), but it also had the effect…
Connecting People, Knowledge, and the Environment in Remote Canada
The Torngat Mountains are gorgeous and after reading this article I now have another place on this beautiful planet that I want to see in person. The article isn’t just…
About That Free Speech Thing
Increasingly, it seems that free speech and freedom of expression are contingent upon whether the powers that be approve of your views. Recent events surrounding the Israel-Gaza war underscore that…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the investment belong to you?
The answer will very often depend on what you and your family member intended. Did they put the investments in your name with the expectation that you would hold it…
The intensity of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza is barbaric and shocking, but its methods are not new
Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip on October 9, 2023. Photo courtesy Palestinian News & Information Agency-WAFA/Wikimedia Commons. For nearly 75…