Donald Trump: Can I Get a Big Amen?
From the theatre of the absurd comes Donald Trump’s latest scam. He will be getting royalties from this special edition Bible. Truly, we are in The End Times. Recommend this…
Saturday Photo: Time and the River Flowing
The edge of the Ottawa River in March, 2024. No ice, just reflections.
Saturday Photo: Time and the River Flowing
The edge of the Ottawa River in March, 2024. No ice, just reflections.
My latest: grassroots? No.
Grassroots. Gotcha. The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas propagandists would like you do believe that theirs is a spontaneous, organic, community-based effort, one that is entirely funded by regular folks, presumably through bake…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brian Klaas writes about the death of substantive policy discussion as both media and political actors focus primarily on horse-race messaging rather…
A Kevin O’Leary Takedown
John Stewart – love the guy. Kevin O’Leary – detest the guy. Blowhards have always rubbed me the wrong way. Happily, the two diametrically opposed personages are together in the…
Rakhi Pancholi quits NDP leadership race, endorses Naheed Nenshi
Rakhi Pancholi, one of the most credible candidates to lead the Alberta NDP, has jumped aboard the Nenshi juggernaut. NDP leadership candidate Naheed Nenshi, who is now definitely the front-runner…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 26, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Calgary judge rules 27-year-old can go ahead with medically-assisted death despite father’s concerns #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/3kcs6ees – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
The threshold of intent
Medic carrying a wounded Palestinian child in Gaza. Photo courtesy Fars Media Corporation/Wikimedia Commons. On March 18, the world’s famine watchdog the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), whose “main…
Lead in Firearm Ammunition
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Childhood lead exposure, primarily from paint and water, is a significant health concern in the United States, but a new study has identified a surprising additional source…
Four investigations are better than one – especially if none of them asks the right questions
What’s a government like the one run by the United Conservative Party to do with the public still riled up about that motel medicine meltdown, the health care controversy that…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2024-03-25 18:03:00
When Irish Eyes are Smiling. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7153636
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 25, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Parents file $1.5M lawsuit after Quebec teacher accused of selling students’ artwork online #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/55bjyzkn – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
A Contrary View
If the polls are to be believed, we are headed for a Conservative juggernaut. Susan Riley isn’t so sure: Lurking somewhere between despair and denial, you can spot tiny glimmers…
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…