Fascinate fools, muzzle the intelligent
More than 100 years ago, American labor activist Eugene Debs said, "Every robber or oppressor in history has wrapped himself in a cloak of patriotism or religion, or both." Today,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Saskatchewan election day reading. And if you haven't voted yet, now's the time! (Update: Also, ReginaPosterBoy's summary of the Sask Party's track record (via Cathie) is…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 28, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Judge upholds dismissal of Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter charge #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/MgFhoOZwl9 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit ...
UPDATED: "Anticipatory Obedience"
Anticipatory obedience is a term I was unfamiliar with until reading an article in The Guardian.n On Tyranny, Tim Snyder’s bestselling guide to authoritarianism. Snyder defines the term as “giving…
Cuba’s crisis is mounting. Should Canada step in to help?
Street scene in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Jorge Royan/Wikimedia Commons. Nobody can deny that Cuba is facing a major crisis—the most severe since the Batista dictatorship was overthrown in 1959.…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of October 28, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 28, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 28, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Exonerated Central Park Five sue Donald Trump for 'demonstrably false' debate remarksFederal government…
Chris Hedges: Israel’s war on journalism
“Catch and Kill Journalism.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog…
Canada’s ‘New Red Scare’ is profoundly undemocratic
The cover of the The Communist Threat to Canada, a booklet published by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in 1947. In the past decade, a disturbing phenomenon has arisen in…
Sask Party’s Greatest Screw-Up Hits!
I just saw this amazing thread from Regina Poster Boy about the Sask Party's parade of screw-ups and I had to share it tonight -- our Saskatchewan election is Monday!…
Danielle Smith’s government doubles down on its War on Trans Kids, performative new ‘rights,’ to woo far-right UCP base
According to some wag on the Internet, Blaine Higgs has changed his pronouns. They’re now Has/Been. I don’t know enough about New Brunswick politics to be certain if the cruel…
Is Alberta suffering from the Innovator’s Dilemma?
In listening to Mac Van Wielingen of Viewpoint Investment Partners, on a recent HUB podcast, I was reminded about the highs and lows of Research in Motion (RIM). RIM’s story…
Canadian Future Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
This article is a collection of responses from candidate(s) for the leadership of the Canadian Future Party regarding themonarchy. It will continue to be updated as more repliesroll in. This…
Satuday Photo: Some Strange Creatures at the Lachine Rapids
It looks like some folks had a grand time preparing for Halloween at le Parc des Rapides de Lachine. About a dozen carefully carved pumpkins were dotted around the park…
Mood
Ever have one of those days where you feel like the future of NATO, Ukraine, Taiwan, free trade and humanity itself is in the hands of 70 million fucking idiots…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tim Winton writes about the need to wake up from our fossil fuel stupor - with the role of activists being to sound…
The ‘Financialization’ of Housing
This report comes from the US, but by now, most Canadians have heard that housng costs and rents are too high and we need to build, build, build in order…
Assessment of Barriers to Educational Technology Acceptance
Automated transcription, lightly edited for paragraph breaks. Welcome to the Sunday morning session. Where the most important papers are presented.So, Uh, a lot of this paper wasn't actually in the…