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December 2024
WHO: "We Cannot Talk about Covid in the Past Tense"
Dr. Tedros said this in the WHO Director-General's opening remarks at Tuesday's media briefing where he also suggested that over 20 million people have died from SARS-CoV-2 so far, and…
Legal News Post of the Day: December 12, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: TikTok files legal challenge of federal government's shutdown order #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/Rjw5vC6lsr - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian reviews Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism as setting out the problem of fascists using emergencies both real and contrived as an excuse…
Sorting out the sharing
Yes, traction and followers are the point. These cartoons are pointless unless they’re seen and social media is the distribution system. WordPress’ built in share
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Claiming Dependent Support from an Estate
Family members who were financially dependent upon a deceased person may be entitled to claim support from the deceased’s Estate.If the deceased's will doesn't provide for these obligations, the support…
Today’s Roundup: The CEO assassination
This gentleman is spot-fucking-on. The assassination of United Healthcare's CEO by a highly intelligent Ivy League graduate dealing with chronic pain is a watershed moment in our history and an…
Journalism must address “an elite power game”
Politicians no longer answer to voters, since virtually all votes are guaranteed by tribal loyalty; instead they answer to big donors... Shaming politicians has become next to impossible. Thanks to…
Inexcusable delay in BC courts
More than ten years have passed since Canada's worst environmental disaster. In August 2014, a mining company's tailings dam failed, spilling toxic sludge into Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel…
Legal News Post of the Day: December 11, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay:Luigi Mangione, Suspect in CEO Killing, Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/yESW9cEi1t - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Insurgent Trajectory of Antifascist Genealogies: Review of Devin Z. Shaw’s latest book [Brotherwise Dispatch]
Devin Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight, (Montreal, Canada: Kersplebedeb, 2024). by A. Shahid Stover Devin Z. Shaw’s Genealogies of Antifascism insightfully works towards…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Laurie Laybourn and James Dyke comment on the developing doom loop as fear, hardship and political instability created by a climate breakdown in progress…
Behind The Headlines
The shooting of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, has dominated headlines since the crime occurred. While none of us should take any satisfaction in the murder of a…
Blue Skies, Nothing But Blueskies…
Enshittification is a delightful neologism coined by author Cory Doctrow in 2022 to describe how things decline in quality and service. While it initially meant to describe how vendors would…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Mediation of Parenting Disputes in Ontario
Many parental disputes in Ontario Family Law matters are now resolved through Mediation, rather than court action.Mediators work with parents to create parenting plans and residency schedules that are tailor-made…
An Unsympathetic Death
Last week, United Healthcare CEO Brain Thompson was murdered in New York City on his way to a conference of investors in his American health insurance company.
Today’s News: The Trudeau government is "playing a bad hand as well as they can"
I was looking at X tonight, and saw that Maple MAGA is just delighted with the "Governor Trudeau" insult.Jerks!Here's what I think happened: Trump saw all the praise in Canada…
A week before crucial Lethbridge by-election, it’s still not clear what NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi stands for
Since Naheed Nenshi replaced Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP last June, the Opposition party appears to have gone from all tactics and no strategy to all strategy…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline takeover.