My latest: the Weekend from Hell™️
The Weekend from Hell. All of us have had one, at one time or another. A fender-bender on the way to an important appointment. A flooded basement. A positive…
2023
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Woodside weighs in on the UN’s recognition of the need to stop our dependence on dirty energy. And Jillian Ambrose reports…
Facebook/Meta are evil
I mean, they all are, in their own unique way, but Facebook/Meta are the worst. People may be trying to save their lives during wildfires, desperate for information, but Zuckerberg…
Manitoba NDP’s ‘tough on crime’ pledges will not keep people safe
Manitoba NDP leader Wab Kinew lays out his party’s “5-point Strategy to be Tough on Crime and Tough on the Causes of Crime” in Winnipeg, August 17, 2023. Photo courtesy…
Still Working On Filtration Units
Ontario School Safety is still working hard to try to get CR boxes allowed in classrooms. They donated some directly to the local board office. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly), they can’t…
Leave No Cliché Unused.
Does Pierre Poilievre, our little boy blue and leader of Canada’s conservatives, now have some conservative concerns to help him do his job? He met with conservatives in Quebec City…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board writes that there’s still every reason to take precautions to avoid the spread of COVID-19, while Frances Ryan points…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 11, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Mifepristone maker asks Supreme Court to make ultimate decision on abortion drug #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://tinyurl.com/3nzm7esv – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
The CPC Went Full SoCon
The brief summary of yesterday’s policy votes at the CPC 2023 convention was published by CBC. Go there first, and read it – but I really think they missed more…
The New CPC
Image from this great Breach article Remember back when Harper was PM, and he opened Canada’s media to foreign ownership despite widespread protests? So now Poilievre all but owns Canadian…
Yet Another Post About Corruption
H/t Patrick Corrigan I’m fairly certain that readers who have stuck with me during my protracted postings on the Doug Ford corruption scandal are growing a bit weary of my…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 11, 2023
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Harperism operates in right-wing shadows
Stephen Harper is today’s éminence grise behind the Conservative Party of Canada. Since leaving the University of Calgary in 1985, Harper has been a resolute right-wing activist. After being turned…
The AI Incident Database Catalogs AI Errors
The threat Artificial Intelligence holds is unknown and many people are rightfully concerned about the potential harm that AI can cause. The AI Incident Databaseo help us as a society…
Not New And Improved
Their convention is over and the Conservatives are riding high in the polls. Given the policies they adopted on transgender kids and race-based hiring, Canadians should be wary of the…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 11, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 11, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Write-in candidate with 2 law degrees sues to keep Trump off the…
Can Allende make it?
On the night of September 28, 1971, Chilean President Salvador Allende disclosed publicly in a speech at the presidential palace of La Moneda the social, political and mathematical arguments that…
Tell It Like It Is Paul.
Ontario premier Doug Ford thinks he has chosen well. Telling the truth has never been a strong or notable habit of Ontario’s new housing minister. I told you the other…
Circumscribed freedom
The emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These “ugly freedoms” legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate…
Aug 3: The day Danielle Smith kneecapped wind and solar energy
The low point of my summer (and there were many with this UCP government) came on Aug 3 when Danielle Smith announced a 7 month moratorium on wind and solar…