Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 25, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of March 25, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 25, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder…
Fighting climate change: Beyond Canada’s carbon tax
Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr Free Transit Ottawa (FTO) organized a public meeting on March 18 on the theme “Fighting Climate Change: Beyond the Carbon Tax.” The event was co-sponsored by…
On Identity: Erikson, Freud, and Sartre
I recently listened to a podcast of Dr. Louis Cozolino, a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, discussing what he would teach if he were training psychotherapists. The first year would be phenomenology:…
Let Cuba Live!
Winnipeg, March 24, 2024: Members of the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee rallied to show support for the Cuban people in their six-decade struggle to end the United States economic blockade of…
Tegan and Sara call out Smith Government for UCP’s anti-trans policies at Junos
Thank you to the musical Quin twins, universally known as the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, for speaking up at the Juno Awards in Halifax last night about the…
Some Meds that Might Help
A new PrEP for Covid! Invivyd got FDA approval for Pemgarda, or pemivibart and formerly VYD222, to be used as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Covid, specifically for adults and adolescents…
My latest: it’s not gonna work, Jew haters
What’s that old military saying? You know you’re over target when you’re taking flak? That’s what the B-17 pilots used to say when flying over Europe on missions to bomb…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2024-03-24 16:20:00
Never forget what Hamas did to this young paralyzed and wheelchair bound girl on Oct 7th. Ruth Perez, 17, who had muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy, was enjoying the music…
This week’s tonic: “The Middle East and the Erosion of our Public Discourse” by Liberal MP Ben Carr
Winnipeg South Centre Liberal MP Ben Carr is one of many Liberals in the federal caucus torn between his strong support for Israel as an ancestral home for Jews the…
This week’s tonic: “ The Middle East and the Erosion of our Public Discourse” by Liberal MP Ben Carr
Winnipeg South Centre Liberal MP Ben Carr is one of many Liberals in the federal caucus torn between his strong support for Israel as an ancestral home for Jews the…
Canada is re-thinking Mulroney today. And maybe Poilievre, too
Canada is buzzing about Brian Mulroney's funeral -- so many profound, moving and memorable moments: Good God… when Marc Hervieux and Mulroney’s granddaughter Elizabeth Lapham stopped to let a recording…
Canada is re-thinking Mulroney today. And maybe Poilievre, too
Canada is buzzing about Brian Mulroney’s funeral — so many profound, moving and memorable moments: Good God… when Marc Hervieux and Mulroney’s granddaughter Elizabeth Lapham stopped to let a recording…
The most important history lesson
Alberta’s pursuit of a new K-12 public school curriculum has been a long slog. An ambitious curriculum re-development project was initiated by a Progressive Conservative government in 2008. The project…
Ending fossil fuels benefits all
Many people in Canada are employed in fossil fuel industries. Were production of carbon-laden, climate damaging products to decline or end, many towns would be disrupted. However, quality of life…
My latest: taxing in the rain
A rain tax. Seriously, they want to tax the rain. Before we get started on the latest insanity to, um, seep out of Toronto’s municipal government, let’s give credit where…
The History American Politicians Try To Keep Hidden
I have done a great deal of reading in the past couple of years on The Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow laws that followed it, Black Codes, and…
Wisdom That Will Be Missed
On the day of Brian Mulroney’s state funeral, Catherine McKenna writes that Brian Mulroney was wise in a way that today’s Conservatives aren’t: In 1987, U.S. president Ronald Reagan and…
Time travel is human nature
Time travel has been on been on my mind lately, and in that context, nostalgia. As someone who meditates, and who, at one point, was… The post Time travel is…