Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jamie Ducharme examines the realities of a COVID-19 surge in progress – as well as the reason to worry that avoidable illness and…
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Legal Tweet of the Day: January 15, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Quebec tightening French-language requirements for storefronts, labels #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews http://tinyurl.com/4cjz768s – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
In Winnipeg the Electric Past is the Future
Broadway looking east, 1914.Archives of Manitoba, Wpg/Streets/Broadway 11 The city of Winnipeg was once a leader in sustainable transit then along came the automobile and the city is now known…
Commenters take note
Friends, your comments are welcome, as always. However, in recent days – specifically, since I started exposing the fact that anti-Israel protesters are getting paid – this website has been…
Boeing: A Followup
If you read my previous post, you will know that the recent failure of a door plug in an Alaska Air flight was presaged by the air crashes of two…
Ed Broadbent
Ed Broadbent died last week, Robin Sears writes: That an unassuming working-class boy from Oshawa grew into a pivotal figure in Canadian life and an international statesman is a testament…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of January 15, 2024
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 15, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 15, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘This crossed the line’: Toronto deputy mayor, councillor call on Ottawa to…
Let ‘er Rip Means Let THEM R.I.P.
A few people have been commenting on the current “death by semantics”, or what Orwell called “doublespeak.” I used that image just in October, but it’s too on-the-nose not to…
Denial is a defence mechanism…
A 2022 article in Psychology Today is worth attention. The author is the late Charles M. Johnston, MD, psychiatrist, author, and futurist…
This is what I said at the rally for the hostages today
I am Warren Kinsella. I am not a Jew. I am Irish and I am Catholic. But I am here today with all of you, and I want to say…
Online speculation about cold-weather electricity crunch highlights the UCP’s lack of credibility
Chances are vanishingly small that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government somehow managed to intentionally cause last night’s cold-weather electricity crunch that led to every Albertan with a smartphone receiving an…
The AESO Emergency Alert
Last night Alberta’s electric system operator (AESO) issued a province-wide emergency alert asking Albertans to immediately reduce their electricity use to minimize the potential for rotating outages across the province.…
what i’m reading: an immense world by ed yong
Long ago, I briefly observed one of our dogs do something that has always stayed with me. I was walking Cody in our New York City neighbourhood, and saw, in…
what i’m reading: an immense world by ed yong
Long ago, I briefly observed one of our dogs do something that has always stayed with me. I was walking Cody in our New York City neighbourhood, and saw, in…
A poem by Leila Marshy: ‘Kinship’
The Wall, photographed here in the Bethlehem Aida refugee camp, is largely built on Palestinian territory far inside the Green Line (1967 border) and cuts off many villages and olive…
Web attack
This web site is under a massive attack via comments, spam, etc. Gee, I wonder who is behind it?
Hezbollah still a useful bogeyman for Israel and the US
Hezbollah fighters march in a parade in Beirut. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The Israeli state is rightly concerned about the possibility of large-scale attacks from the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah.…
Teaching with Covid in Class
Is there a better way to do school during an ongoing, quite possibly never-ending pandemic AND with climate crisis coming home to roost? Christina Virgil, on TikTok discussed the problem…