Today’s News: Ukraine’s Kursk invasion
Here is a roundup from some of the better sources of Ukraine Russia War information, with their analysis about the recent surprising, and surprisingly successful, Kursk offensive: Post by @ianbremmer…
Musical interlude
Royksopp feat. Susanne Sundfor - Never Ever
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ian Urquhart writes that while it's well and good to insist that the oil and gas industry stop attempting to greenwash its contribution to…
Ukraine rolls the dice on Kursk incursion
Photo by Madeleine Kelly/ZUMA Press The war in Ukraine keeps throwing up surprises. For the past few months, the news has been almost universally bad for the Ukrainians. The Russian…
I like the Democratic ticket
I greatly admire U.S. President Joe Biden. I believe him to be one of the... The post I like the Democratic ticket first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Legal News Post of the Day: August 9, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: York Regional Police officers found negligent in investigation of Ont. teen hockey player's death #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://t.co/PjIHKPuVwm - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Fudging the Numbers for Calm Mongering
Leading causes of death have changed over the past four years. In the States, Covid slipped from 3rd to 10th place. Or did it? The numbers are from this study…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from December 9, 2013 via Wise Law Blog: Real and Substantial Connection - Forum Conveniens in Family Law https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2013/12/real-and-substantial-connection-forum.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto ...
Plague Update: Goin’ Grate
Olympians thrown into the meat grater. Grinder? Whatever. Many of them are despicable, and amoral; willing participants in the senseless slaughter. Athletes and coaches who have confirmed infections are not…
Did you know its International Cat Day?
August 8 is "International Cat Day" so let's go! #InternationalCatDay Here's our Marbles, snoozing in her favorite spot - where the dogs couldn't bother her: pic.twitter.com/AObAJmrJ4E— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦…
Did an anti-vaxx MLA just suggest the UCP is about to ban COVID-19 vaccines? Or what?
A video clip of Calgary-Lougheed MLA Eric Bouchard musing about the future of COVID-19 vaccinations on an anti-vaxx video podcast stirred up a storm on social media yesterday among commenters…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Fiona Harvey reports on the UN's warning that fossil fuel propagandists are engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to keep us spewing carbon…
Summertime bits and pieces
It’s Summer. It’s almost the weekend. Here’s some contextless, linkless bits of this and that. ** For anyone who wants a coherent foreign policy, particularly as it relates to Israel,…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 6, 2024
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Kojo Bomani Sababu, he has been transferred:Kojo Bomani Sababu #39384-066FMC ButnerPost Office Box 1600Butner, North Carolina 27509*Address envelope to Grailing Brown. Click here…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 8, 2024
#LegalPostoftheDay: Quebec man fined for voting twice in 2019 federal election #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/Wf5nT9DzKr - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Which Angel Will It Be?
I awoke from a dream this morning in which it seemed I was being registered in a concentration camp, filled with forms and regulations that had to be filled out…
Inside the imperial holding pen
Migrants are guided by Mexican authorities through the Ceibo border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on January 19, 2020. Photo by Jair Cabrera Torres/AP. Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up Inside…
Wise Law’s Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Holograph Wills in Ontario
For an Ontario Will to be valid, it must be signed by the testator and be witnessed by two people who are not beneficiaries under the Will.A Holograph Will is…
Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics
We live in The Age Of Disinformation. That disinformation has found a comfortable home on the Right. Linda McQuaig writes:If we end up with Pierre Poilievre as prime minister, it…