Posters calling for the return of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Photo by Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons. Canada’s mainstream media has expressed outrage at the “moral equivalency” of the International Criminal Court’s…
In September 2010, John Holdren, Harvard professor and Obama's science adviser, gave a speech on climate change arguing that people aren't aware enough of the ways we're affected by the…
In September 2010, John Holdren, Harvard professor and Obama’s science adviser, gave a speech on climate change arguing that people aren’t aware enough of the ways we’re affected by the…
If I should ask what the most prominent single feature of American politics is today, I suspect most would say it’s polarization, perhaps dangerous polarization. I would agree. It was…
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Ch-ch-changes: I’ve got quite a few followers on X, Facebook, this website – and I’m at work on big film/publishing stuff. I’m still going to be in Postmedia, but likely…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: University of Toronto says students have 24 hours to consider latest offer to end encampment #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/3tjwwex8 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Taking on the Amazon Goliath may not succeed without the equivalent of a party or proto-party with bases in unions, across unions, and in class-based social movements, writes Sam Gindin.…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 17, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Alberta Tribunal Addresses the “Great Prima Facie Debate” on Family Status Workplace Accommodation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/05/alberta-tribunal-addresses-great-prima.html – Garry J.…
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water - massive amounts of the limited resource:"pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas to…
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water – massive amounts of the limited resource: “pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas…
Photo by Tineke D’haese/Oxfam/Flickr On December 12, 2023, Oxfam Canada posted to its Instagram page an infographic about Israel’s invasion of Gaza. The first image in a series of slides…
Much – probably too much – is being made of the fact the Alberta NDP’s organizing efforts in Calgary have shifted the Opposition party’s centre of gravity from Edmonton to…
The decision of Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel has caused predictable outrage. Needless to say, Hamas…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality in tracing historical conversations in inequality, while pointing out the importance of identifying power…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Elvis’s Graceland all shook up by allegations of fraud, talk of foreclosure #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2n25p9aa – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
A new paper is out that definitively concludes absolutely, without question that masks/respirators reduce transmission of respiratory infections.It's important that this work is published, but it's a shame that it's…
A new paper is out that definitively concludes absolutely, without question that masks/respirators reduce transmission of respiratory infections. It’s important that this work is published, but it’s a shame that…
