I read the news today, oh boy!
...The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… What an awful week…
2023
Take Back Alberta’s David Parker: MAGA rabble rouser or establishment elitist?
David Parker, executive director of the Take Back Alberta faction of the United Conservative Party, was tweeting about Alberta Health Services’ new enhanced-masking directive first thing Thursday morning, the day…
Limits of the free market
Whenever I do those quizzes that purport to reveal where you fit on the political/philosophical spectrum, they insist I’m a social democrat. This rather surprises me because I tend to…
Here are the names of the children killed by Hamas
Aryeh Alexander Sandler, the late 5-year-old The late Gabriel Issachar Sandler, 3 years old The late Daniel Aryeh Wiplich, 16 years old The late Elad Fogel, 4 years old The…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Freedman examines how the climate breakdown is generating consequences far beyond those foreseen by previous projections. Seth Borenstein reports on the immense…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 13, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa woman, 97, charged with historical sexual assaults at residential, day schools #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/3p8zkerd – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
The Conflict
If I were explaining it all to a class of 15-18 year olds, here’s what I would say: my imperfect lesson with my own stance front and centre but wide…
Jeff Halper: Zionism has destroyed two peoples
Medics transport an injured Palestinian child into Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following an Israeli airstrike, October 11, 2023. Photo by APA Images/Wikimedia Commons. I am going to bed tonight…
Forgive And Forget? Never
There is a saying that, in many cases is a mere platitude: “Time heals all wounds.” Often said to the bereaved, it is meant to impart that there are better…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 17, 2015
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 17, 2015 via Wise Law Blog: Getting Your Legal Writing Right http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2015/04/getting-your-legal-writing-right.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Reaping the whirlwind
Palestinians inspect the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, October 8, 2023. Photo by APA Images/Wikimedia Commons.…
Coalitions; Like Good Sex.
Former new democratic leader Ed Broadbent was talking on the CBC recently about the current liberal-new democratic supply and confidence agreement in Ottawa. He thinks this agreement should have been…
A woman’s world
Some years ago I wrote a book based on the theme that women are better designed for the modern world than men. (Visit this page for a free copy.) Men…
An Open Letter from feminists in Ireland to the organizers of the “We Need to Talk Tour” [written in 2018]
We write as cisgender feminists in Ireland to the organisers of the ‘We Need To Talk’ speaking tour who plan to hold an event in Ireland in February . The…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that the cost of damage caused by extreme weather is already upwards of $16 million…
My latest: the NDP’s shame
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. That that’s how the saying goes. When it comes to Sarah Jama, it applies. Jama is (unfortunately for…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 12, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Increased police presence to continue in Jewish communities, other places of worship: TPS #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/47hxru6c – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
And I dare you to sue me again, you bastard
On the very day we are seeing photographs of Israeli babies who have been slaughtered, I see this. I called this “man” a racist and an extremist and a bigot.…
The Fence Tourists Love to See
Down in New Zealand there’s a fence that people go out of their way to see. This fence was the first of its kind and was built to keep invasive…