Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of February 26, 2024
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February 2024
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of February 26, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 26, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Former law dean disbarred in Manitoba after he misspent $500K in school…
Time For A Walk In The Snow?
Michael Harris has supported Justin Trudeau pretty consistently. Now, he writes, it’s time for Trudeau to go: Nothing is clearer in Canadian politics than that the next federal election is…
MTL International Women’s Day Events: Demo March 8, Teach-In March 9
From the Facebook event: Join us for a powerful event as Women of Diverse Origins presents the “Global Women’s Resistance and Solidarity Teach-in: Palestine and the Anti-Imperialist Movement” as part…
More Military Madness
Singling out Canada for not wasting enough money on military spending is madness. Instead, we should be going after the American companies generating tax dollars for Russian coffers. The post…
Changing Perceptions of Autism
I compiled some posts from here into a summary of recent studies on Autism at 3 Quarks Daily, but the word count limit there forced me to cut this bit…
Edmonton-Rutherford MLA Jodi Calihoo Stonehouse and AFL President Gil McGowan join NDP leadership race
Two more high-profile candidates said over the weekend they are joining the NDP leadership race: Edmonton-Rutherford MLA Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse and Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan. Alberta Federation…
A caterpillar turning into a butterfly?
I write often about climate change and tend toward pessimism about humankind’s efforts to avoid disaster. But there are good stories that show progress. Will they be enough? Only if…
Affirming Care Is Not A “Conveyor Belt”
In reading the essay “Current Concerns About Gender Affirming Care In Adolescents”, it occurred to me that there is a fundamental misrepresentation about what Gender Affirming Care means, and the…
Affirming Care Is Not A “Conveyor Belt”
In reading the essay “Current Concerns About Gender Affirming Care In Adolescents”, it occurred to me that there is a fundamental misrepresentation about what Gender Affirming Care means, and the…
An error by Global TV News or part of a pattern? (2010 article repeated in 2024)
I spend much time on the internet reading reliable sources. (Well, mostly reliable.) My subscription list for mainstream media is lengthy, although I consciously avoid Postmedia. While the company employs…
Things that matter, or things that don’t
Sometimes, we become focused on things that matter to us, but matter little or nothing to others. I might be accused of that when I write at IN-SIGHTS. But I…
Two Steps Forward…
It’s amazing to get so far in our scientific advances, only to have it tossed aside by misinformation. A Daily Mail article explained the conclusion of a study that, “They…
Danielle Smith keeps saying she’s going to ‘de-risk’ natural-gas-fired electricity generation – what exactly does she have in mind?
According to the Council of Europe, “de-risking” means “the phenomenon of financial institutions terminating or restricting business relationships with clients or categories of clients to avoid, rather than manage, risk.”…
How to measure prosperity
A 1953 speech by W.E.B. Du Bois discussed the fundamental injustices and shortcomings of the American economy. It includes one of his most famous quotes:
Saturday Photo: Blue and Sunny Skies!
Haven't had many sunny days this winter, but today was one! Hoorah!
Wind vs nuclear energy
It must dishearten nuclear proponents when wind energy is shown to be a low-cost, quickly installed source of electricity.
Saturday Photo: Blue and Sunny Skies!
Haven’t had many sunny days this winter, but today was one! Hoorah!
Plague Update: Exploding Measles Threat
No, the latest measles don’t make you explode, I meant the threat is rising thanks to anti-waxxer ignorance spreading across the globe. And war, that’s infamously good at helping disease…