My latest: Amsterdam was planned
It was planned. The attacks on Jews in Amsterdam on Thursday — the beatings, the stabbings, the shooting of fireworks, the running them down with cars — didn’t just happen…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Michael Harris offers some lessons about the U.S.' values based on this week's election results. Rebecca Solnit opines that the largest failing of American…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 8, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Jan. 6 Defendants Are Already Angling for Pardons From Trump #law #legal #legalnews @nytimes https://t.co/chPAZkCw1p - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
All you feel is love-In celebration of Tom Hilborn
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History repeats itself?
This was first published on this blog back in 2020 and is unfortunately even more relevant today with the news coming out of the U.S this week, Hang on to…
Pictures, Not Words
I lack the heart these days to write on my blog. Therefore, I think I shall let pictures, in this case, an editorial cartoon, speak for me.H/t MoudakisRecommend this Post
So, what now?
The Low Road a poem by Marge Piercy What can they do to you? Whatever they want… They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 29, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 29, 2012via Wise Law Blog: Tax or Mandate? John Roberts As the Decider https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/tax-of-mandate-john-roberts-is-decider.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Off...
History repeats itself?
This was first published on this blog back in 2020 and is unfortunately even more relevant today with the news coming out of the U.S this week, Hang on to…
Working construction in a housing crisis
Construction on Sherbourne Street in downtown Toronto. Photo by Alex Krasavtsev/Flickr. It feels deeply ironic to be a building-trades worker during a housing crisis. I build homes—condos more s...
Firing of AIMCo CEO and entire board another sign UCP is determined to control everything, everywhere, all at once
With its surprise decision to cashier the entire board and the top executive of the supposedly independent Alberta Investment Management Corp., we see once again that the United Conservative Party…
Today’s News: More comments on the Trump election – Jonathan Chait, Tom Scocca, Cooper Lund, Jimmy Kimmel, Mark Hamill, and Black Cloud Six
More comments about why the Trump election happened, and how to (maybe) survive it:New York magazine, Jonathan Chait: Trump’s ‘Unprecedented and Powerful Mandate’ Is a Lie Do not surrender in…
Atheists Beware: Trump Will Come For You, Too
While women and immigrants will initially be the main target of the Talibangelists in the upcoming Trump theocracy, they will not be the only victims of Trumpist repression. Among the…
The end of the republic?
Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their... The post The end of the republic? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Legal News Post of the Day: November 7, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: What might Donald Trump's election win mean for Canadians #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://t.co/1UhgwTpYBj - 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.- Martha Gill offers a reminder that the stakes of any climate change policy are nothing less than our ultimate survival. And Julia Musto…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: What is a Power of Attorney for Personal Care?
You may complete a Power of Attorney for Personal Care to appoint one or more trusted persons to make medical decisions on your behalf in critical circumstances where you are…
Open letter
Dear American friends: Seeing online how unhappy so many of you are. So, move to Canada. Our politics are pretty dull and way more civil. Our people are good people.…