Ukraine’s ‘victory plan’ faces sobering realities
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on September 26, 2024. Photo courtesy Volodymyr Zelensky/X. ...
September 2024
Happy Saturday! Here’s some fun stuff about politics, golf, librarian spies, getting older, and cool maps
First, just a glance at politics:WHO DID THIS?? 🦇 pic.twitter.com/ihJmPT8fmQ— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) September 13, 2024 This should get an award for hilarious description of the GOP these days: Correct.…
Another day, another overwrought UCP screed – this one defending fossil fuel companies’ ‘right’ to greenwash
Another day, another overwrought screed from the United Conservative Party, this one a repeat, screeching that the federal government’s changes to the Competition Act “are undemocratic, extreme and will hurt…
Musical interlude
Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Eric Topol examines the latest research showing COVID-19's effect on the brain, while David Robson takes note of the prospect that the brain has…
Legal News Post of the Day: September 27, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: After first non-confidence motion failed, Poilievre is back with another one #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://t.co/gnmLdjjH7e - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Tunnel Vision
H/t MoudakisContinuing with yesterday's theme, Star readers offer their views of Doug Ford's latest scheme:The idea of a Highway 401 tunnel is ludicrous. It can’t be built quickly enough. It…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 23, 2015
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 23, 2015 via Wise Law Blog: Tips on Law Blogging http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2015/01/slawtips-tips-on-law-blogging.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net...
As the JNF continues its rampage in the West Bank, CRA ruling offers Palestinians hope
In June, the Israeli government approved plans for five new settlements in the West Bank, including the Nahal Heletz settlement, flanking the UNESCO heritage site and Palestinian village of Battir,…
To build solidarity with Palestine, Canada’s labour movement must look to the past
UAW-Canada President Bob White and South African anti-apartheid activist Archie Sibeko (Zola Zembe) at the founding convention of the UAW-Canada, 1985. Photo by Murray Mosher. Th...
Poilievre and the "sore winner syndrome"
I'm trying to think whether there was any time in modern history that Canadians elected a Prime Minister they didn't actually like. Conservatives seem to have a pattern of finding…
Danielle Smith’s statements on federal labour disputes signal intent to attack workers’ rights, CUPE leader warns
There’s a reason that Danielle Smith publishes an angry statement demanding Ottawa interfere with the collective bargaining process practically every time there’s a labour dispute in federal jurisdiction, and it…
Guest post by economist Erik Andersen
Economist Erik Andersen offers something to remember when voting next month and beyond…
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Context, Rules, and Limits
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, greetings from Canada. Thank you for inviting me to speak at this important forum on artificial intelligence and education. Here is a QR code that…
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Context, Rules, and Limits
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, greetings from Canada. Thank you for inviting me to speak at this important forum on artificial intelligence and education. Here is a QR code that…
Am I optimistic and if so how is that even possible?
At the end of a recent interview I was asked how is it possible, given all the crises I talk about and all the social discord, that I still claim…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Hilary Beaumont and Nina Lakhani report on the fossil fuel lobby's pressure on U.S. governments to impose draconian anti-protest laws to prevent climate…
Legal News Post of the Day: September 26, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Cineplex fined $38.9M over $1.50 online booking fee #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://t.co/g1HEEZiv74 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
UPDATED: He’s A Trial For All Of Us
From Frank Kafka's The TrialSomeone must have left some envelopes upon which he doodled, because Doug F. , without having done any thinking, announced another scheme one fine morning: a…