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I generally avoid spending money on American publications, but The Atlantic remains indispensable. Today, staff writer David A. Graham describes a deeply dangerous individual whose towering arrogance convinces him he…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Inae Oh weighs in on the neo-royalism fueling Trump's sense of divine right. Seva Grunitsky points out that a hubristic belief that might makes…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 6, 2025
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Casey Brezik, please stop, as he has been RELEASED. And if you send to Hridindu Roychowdhury, he is being transferred and is currently…
A Treatise For A Treaty On A New World Order
There is indeed something of a 'new world order.' We can go along for the ride, or we can take the lead in making it one in which we are…
Rethinking the ‘Indian international student crisis’
The South Asian migrant, often reduced to the label of the “international student,” has become a testing ground for the expansion of precarious and gig labour and the consolidation of…
Carney at Davos "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just. "
Carney at Davos gave a brilliant speech. Paul Wells reprints the whole speech here: The Carney doctrineAs I was listening to Carney, I was reminded again of Leonard Cohen's lines…
Naheed Nenshi’s response to Alberta separatists is still too nice, too nuanced, and too naïve
We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Chin-up cat.
A Masterful Speech
One cannot help but be impressed and inspired by Mark Carney's speech at Davos. I encourage you, if you have the time, to listen to it in its entirety. No…
To The World, Trump Is America
Dear Americans: don’t apologise for your president, do something about him.
Canadian labour movement needs a wake-up call
Air Canada workers on the picket line, August 2025. Photo courtesy Air Canada Component of CUPE/Facebook. I have worked as a letter carrier at Canada Post for eight years. It’s…
Today’s News: The Northern Lights are shining bright above Greenland tonight!
So this hit the news on Sunday night: Trump. Is. Insane.— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) January 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM Americans - the whole western world, really - just couldn't…
List describes two weeks of needless deaths and near misses in Alberta ER hallway and waiting room ‘death zones’
A well-known emergency medicine physician has compiled a list of six patients who died waiting for a doctor to attend to them in Alberta’s packed and chaotic Emergency Rooms over…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gaby Hinsliff highlights the need for the UK (and the rest of the world) to cut ties with an entirely unerliable U.S., while John…
Cars I’ve owned
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Who is the deranged one, now?
Having grown up in Alberta as a card-carrying Liberal, I knew how to make friends with Conservatives. If I didn’t, I would’ve had no friends. When you are a progressive-type…
How Neoliberalism Leads to Libertarianism to Mad Max
Despite its misleading name, neoliberalism is not a liberal, progressive, woke, or left-wing ideology. It is a deeply far-right economic policy that aims to benefit the rich, the businesses, and…
Stop Saying We’re “Outsourcing Thinking”
Why AI Is an Epistemic Extension, Not a Cognitive AbdicationEvery time I hear someone say that using AI means we are “outsourcing thinking,” I feel the same quiet irritation one…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of January 19, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 19, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 19, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:B.C. court to hear Charter challenge over religious exemptions to assisted dying law…