The Giller Prize and the ‘Indigo 11’
Writers have joined forces with visual artists, filmmakers, and cultural workers under the banner of No Arms in the Arts, a campaign demanding that all cultural institutions receiving funding from…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Did you sign a non-competition agreement?
If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your employer or soliciting its customers after you leave, those restrictions may not be enforceable.Non-competition agreements are generally unenforceable against Ontario…
Reports of beheaded Israeli babies were bound to be propaganda
Anyone who has studied the history of propaganda must have rolled their eyes as I did upon hearing reports of babies being beheaded by Hamas militants after their incursion into…
[Three Way Fight] “Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East
Matthew N Lyons, October 8, 2024, from the Three Way Fight Website The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight…
Evacuating Eden
...They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. - John Milton, Paradise Lost I was going to do a post tonight on the…
What happens to the controversial ‘Alberta Recovery Model’ now that its architect and chief advocate is said to be out?
What will happen to the “Alberta Recovery Model” now that the chief advocate of the province’s much-criticized abstinence-only approach to addiction treatment in Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government…
Widdowson wins … sort of
Early last year I posted about the Frances Widdowson case. Dr. Widdowson was a tenured... The post Widdowson wins … sort of first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Jurassic Park: Some Thoughts About the Franchise Part 1
There’s one particular scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, about twenty minutes in, when Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler see the dinosaurs walking wild in the open…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Lauren Rosenthal, Brian Sullivan and Christopher Cannon examine how the prospect of extreme weather and associated disasters is a reality everywhere in the U.S.…
One year of genocide in Gaza
A Palestinian mother holds her son while passing a residential building that was destroyed overnight by an Israeli air strike at Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City. Photo by Eman Mohammed.…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 7, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: B.C. man sues RBC after earning then losing $415M on Tesla stocks via @CBCNews https://t.co/szRCcr4RZd - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of October 7, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 7, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 7, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Eric Adams’s Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Bribery ChargeHalton police bust 51 unplated…
what i’m reading: the wolf, outstanding nonfiction by nate blakeslee
current/international editionThe Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee is a masterpiece. It is truly one of the best works of narrative nonfiction…
How Sweet It Is
People of a certain age will remember Jackie Gleason and one of his famous taglines: "How sweet it is." Delivered with an insouciance only Gleason was capable of, it was…
The state of our moral disengagement
Palestinians stand amid the ruins of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Hajjar/AP. A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body…
Reviewing Reboot Alberta
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Reviewing Reboot Alberta
Control Alternatives and Deletes Check out our website www.rebootalberta.com and Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/kenchapman46/
Today’s News: Truanons and Nuremberg 2.0 and understanding the damn question
So on Saturday this happened:Angus Reid reposts a doctored video that misquotes the PM as if it's reality and we're supposed to accept his company's poll results are believable? I…
Danielle Smith’s promised ‘new day for health care in Alberta’ is here – and, yikes, is it ever awful!
When she opened her news conference on Nov. 8 last year, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith began: “Welcome to a new day for health care in Alberta!” Did she get that…