Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of July 29, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 29, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 29, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Secret Service director 'full of shit today,' congresswoman says at hearing into pre-shooting…
A Wild Ride
From now until the election, not just Americans -- but all of us -- are in for a wild ride. Michael Harris writes:The traditional cliché is that all politics is…
A Wild Ride
From now until the election, not just Americans -- but all of us -- are in for a wild ride. Michael Harris writes:The traditional cliché is that all politics is…
Saltwire takeover would give Postmedia a coast-to-coast monopoly
Postmedia emerged this week as the surprise buyer of troubled Saltwire, which publishes more than 20 papers in Atlantic Canada, including the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Photo by Tony Webster/Flickr. ...
Meme Monday #13
Trigger Warning: Border Gore Over on the Monarchism subreddit user Derpballz posted the above image with the caption "This is the ideal monarchist state of affairs. You may not like…
Saturday Photo: The Woman of the Hour
How the world has turned around in the last week! Or at least the prospects for a good outcome to the US presidential race!I am two weeks to the day…
Danielle Smith touts letting loggers cut trees and ranchers graze cattle to help manage fire threat in national parks
Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith escalated her criticism of Parks Canada’s approach to fire management in Jasper National Park yesterday, suggesting…
Remembering when comedy was, well, funny
The tributes to Bob Newhart last week were universal in tone. A great comic, a great sitcom star, and a great guy. If there was anyone who had a bad…
My latest: Netanyahu’s race against fate
If you had the impression this week that Benjamin Netanyahu was running for office, you’d be right. He is. But the Prime Minister of Israel wasn’t running where he was…
No Dog in That Fight, But I Still Care About the Results
As a Canadian, I can only watch US politics from afar, albeit with unease. My comments on events and issues there are those from an armchair observer who has no…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates July 23, 2024
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Time To Stock Up
I'm kind of busy lately and don't have time today for a lengthy post. However, one quick observation, and then a suggestion for the Republicans.First, it is refreshing to see…
Rotting the Soul of a Nation
As a Canadian, we need to be concerned what happens to our neighbours. Their politics affects our lives. I don't typically write about this stuff, and so much has happened…
Oh, Canada: Longing For Home
With a trip coming up to my old home country of Canada, I feel, three hours before dawn, the urge to hear songs from my beloved country, where I was…
The REIT-ification of housing
Financialized firms including real estate investment trusts (REITs) control 48 percent of purpose-built rentals in Edmonton and 20-30 percent all of rentals across the country. Photo by Stefan Jansson. ...
Immoral or amoral?
Rutger University professor Wenwen Zhang, wrote a 2018 dissertation that said conceptions of amorality in business literature are diverse and ambiguous. Belief that morality is irrelevant and inapplicable in business…
Musical interlude
Mystic Tea Party - Honey
Yes, Alberta, it’s time we had a grown-up talk about wildfires
As flames from the massive forest fire in Jasper National Park ripped into the west side of the town of Jasper Wednesday night, Edmonton broadcaster Courtney Theriault plaintively tweeted that…