Legal News Post of the Day: December 9, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: TikTok loses bid in appeal court to halt law that could lead to U.S. ban #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/EfKljgZSqs - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
For Love Of Country
It seems, at least to me, that this day and age has seen a debasement in the concept of loving and standing by one's country. We see it in the…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of December 9, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 9, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 9, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Biden Issues a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ of His Son Hunter BidenMore and…
Today’s News: What is wrong with our media, part umpteenth
You know how it feels when someone puts into words something you felt but couldn't describe? Well, here's an article from George Washington University professor Dave Karpf that describes exactly…
UCP MLAs and ministers seem to be jetting all over the place these days – and taxpayers are picking up the tab
It doesn’t seem like that long ago United Conservative Party cabinet ministers, MLAs and political aides were getting in to all kinds of hot water for their holiday travel. Who…
Murder most foul
A few days ago, fifty-year-old Brian Thompson was gunned down on a street in midtown Manhattan. Thompson was not an unimportant man. He was a senior executive of United Health…
John
My girlfriend Paula Christison had been over, and we’d been studying, then watching something on the little black and white TV we had. My Carleton roommate, Lee G. Hill, was…
Saturday Photo: Better Late Than Never
First snow much later than usual. But lovely, all the same even though people seem to be doing a lot of slipping and sliding. Takes a couple of days of…
Big news from Syria tonight
The Syrian rebels are winning.The Washington Post provides this timeline article: The shocking speed of Syria’s rebel advance against Assad: A visual timeline Videos, photos and maps show how Syrian…
Ten Ways to Fix American Democracy
American democracy (such as it is) suffered a blow last month with the election of clownish demagogue Donald Trump. But that is no reason to wallow in despair. A country’s…
Chat GPT wouldn’t lie to me, would it?
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of my unexpected ascension to the lofty heights of provincial power as outlined here a couple of weeks back, my son Blake thought…
my latest: Saturday people, Sunday people
On Google, the listing for the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, now says: “Temporarily closed.” But that’s not quite true, is it? It’s closed for good. At 4:10 a.m.…
With Apologies To Dr. Seuss
The Heart Of This Grinch Would Not Grow, No, Not Even An InchH/t MoudakisRecommend this Post
Mali’s arrest of Barrick employees shows continued push for sovereignty in West Africa
The Malian government under Colonel Assimi Goïta, pictured here, is demanding Resolute Mining and Barrick Gold pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and fines. In the past few…
Guest Post: Alberta’s UCP wants to pave paradise and put up an all-season resort
Now that the fall session of the Alberta Legislature is over and the United Conservative Party is celebrating its success pushing through major parts of its radical agenda, a number…
Price-gouging, policy-corrupting ripoff machines
More and more of the Canadian economy is dominated by a handful of huge companies that control what we buy, how we work, and which other businesses can or can’t…
Musical interlude
Royksopp - I Had This Thing
Invitation declined
A candidate for the People’s Party of Canada asked if I would join his podcast for a discussion of government functions. Having no interest in promoting or assisting that party,…