AI and Environmental Justice
Responding to: Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice, by request. This originated as a Mastodon thread; I'll preserve the use of the informal 'you' throughout.--So, the document is addressed to activists…
Warren loves democracy
I love seeing photos of candidates, of every political stripe, smiling as they canvass and go door-to-door. It’s the purest form of democracy, and I’m a sucker for that. Thanks…
Legal News Post of the Day: February 12, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Woman Files First U.S. Lawsuit Against Andrew Tate and His Brother #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/8gcNRc5aIS - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way chart the likely road ahead in the U.S.' journey from democracy to authoritarianism, while Hamilton Nolan's interview with Stephanie…
The attack on democratic rights
Activists with Just Stop Oil during a November 2022 protest near Trafalgar Square. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr. In his inauguration speech, Donald Trump proclaimed, “I was saved by God to…
Trump’s Abraham Accords incited Hamas attack
President Donald Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah…
Guerrilla Warfare, Anyone?
Although I am now a senior, there is no doubt in my mind that should the Americans ever invade Canada (a notion unthinkable just a short time ago), I would…
The Datasphere Is Coming
The Gates of Polished Horn has many science fiction stories that are preoccupied with the notion of what I call The Datasphere. This is more… The post The Datasphere Is…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
The first same-sex marriage in Ontario occurred on January 14, 2001.Its legality, along with the legality of many other same-sex marriages, was affirmed by the Ontario Court of Appeal on…
Leadership and the Next Election
On the 9th of March, the new Liberal leader should ask the current Prime Minister to stay on in a caretaker role and immediately visit the Governor General to dissolve…
Guantánamo redux
Two US Army military police escort a detainee, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, to a cell at Camp X-Ray, Guantánamo Bay Navy Base, Cuba. Photo by Mate 1st Class Shane…
UCP Attacks! Any old port in a storm when all the media wants to talk about is the Dodgy Contracts Scandal
Desperate to distract from the attention being paid to allegations of dodgy contracts pushed by government insiders, Alberta’s United Conservative Government attacked the Canadian Union of Public Employees yesterday, accusing…
Bending the knee
Media organizations in the US are expected to bend the knee now: There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve…
And what about the .70 percent?
In these days of increasing international tensions, we hear incessantly about the magic two percent.... The post And what about the .70 percent? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Should I smite them?
In 2000, James M. Kauffman forwarded a satirical letter circulating the Internet, addressed to conservative talk-show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger. As a result, he became entangled in the raging controversies…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cat.
Democracy is at risk… everwhere!
PhD historian Giordano Nanne wrote that his main focus was "comparative colonialism in the 19th-century British Empire; and more specifically, settler-colonialism in Australia." Nanni's focus may have shifted because he…
My latest: wake up, Team Tory
If the polls are accurate, this has never really happened before. The Conservative Party of Canada has dropped nearly 30 percentage points in six weeks. Now, in 1984, there was…
Who do you believe?
The BBC issued a February report that found “significant inaccuracies” with news summaries generated from artificial intelligence (AI) engines including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI. “The…