Israel’s drone age
Unmanned aerial vehicle in Israeli military service. Photo by the Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons. On January 3, 2020, Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was assassinated by a US-operated drone attack in…
January 2024
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 1, 2005
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 1, 2005 via Wise Law Blog: Canada’s new Spousal Support Guideline Proposal http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2005/05/canadas-new-spousal-support-guideline.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
"the secret pocket": children’s books on residential schools, reading for reconciliation, and other library things
This post started as a standard “what i’m reading” post. But as I thought about it, I realized that it touches on several other themes that are important to me:…
He’s Here
Everything that develops in the United states eventually crosses our border. So it is that we now have our own version of Donald Trump. Max Fawcett writes: It’s not surprising…
Political Parties Pay the Piper.
And here, all along, I thought it was just the conservatives and liberals who were dumb. Now I find out that the new democrats are just as dim. Robin Sears,…
The folly of swearing to Charles
Once again this business of swearing an oath to the monarch has popped up in Parliament. It’s one of those issues that never dies but never works up quite enough…
My latest: Canada, the anti-Semitic crime gold medalist
What does it take? What does it take for police and prosecutors to do their job, that is. What does it take? Since October 7, when a modern shoah commenced,…
Speaking of False Premises
Back in the comments over here, we have quite a doozy of a comment that warrants a more detailed response, because there are underlying assumptions and beliefs that are encompassed…
Speaking of False Premises
Back in the comments over here, we have quite a doozy of a comment that warrants a more detailed response, because there are underlying assumptions and beliefs that are encompassed…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 4, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed, naming Prince Andrew and former U.S. president Clinton #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews http://tinyurl.com/35d58jzx – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Mobile Pollution Boxes Need to Pay to Enter Manhattan
Cars take up a lot of space in urban centres and deprive non-car owners of previous real estate and a clean environment. Yet, for years we have let car drivers…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What are the legal rights of adopted children?
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift…
The apocalyptic doublethink of Poilievre’s economics
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre appears in front of Sudbury’s iconic Big Nickel to talk about inflation. Image courtesy of Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel. “There are parts of his “Debtonation”…
Can We Get Some Leadership Here?
Hopefully more people will start paying attention to the dangers of Covid and wear a simple N95 to protect themselves and others now that JN.1 seems to be in the…
Losing Like Legault.
It looked like good news. It said that Quebec premier François Legault was losing ground in Quebec politics. It was like the news that your mother-in-law has been killed in…
Bring on the crazy!
I’m seeing some crazy stuff tonight on the social. Like this: As an electrician, i’d like to remind Pierre Poilievre that we don’t capture lighting from the sky. We work…
Engaged citizens need to take it seriously when UCP leaders start talking about mass purges in health care and education
On December 30, Edmonton Sun commentator Rick Bell published a column suggesting Premier Danielle Smith plans a purge of Alberta Health Services that will reach deep into the middle ranks…
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence
AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence is, largely due to the media. Take…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Conley reports that Massachusetts’ referendum-approved millionaire tax raised substantially more income than projected, contributing both to greater equality and more funding for…
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence…