A Long Post for Long Covid Awareness Day!
March 15th is LongCovid Awareness Day, recognized in the U.S. and the U.K., and in Canada, and Sweden, but not yet by the United Nations. A bit about my biggest…
Is He In Hiding?
Given that he is never seen publicly anymore, I am beginning to wonder if Galen Weston Jr, the president of Loblaw Companies Ltd., is in witness protection. If not, given…
Mayor Meets Premier: We Have Questions
In a municipal announcement, led with a screaming all-caps headline like a toddler in a toy store tantrum, the Town of Collingwood published a short statement from Mayor Hamlin about…
Costly oil & gas emissions
A peer-reviewed, Stanford-led study involving more than 50 scientists was published this week by Nature. It reveals alarming information about uncontained emissions from oil gas systems. The authors integrated approximately…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Contractual Entitlement to Notice and the Question of Mitigation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/ontario-employment-law-contractual.html – Garry J. Wise,…
Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He was a regular contributor to…
Shame-Free Guide to Masks
Chuck created a slideshow guide of coping with mask wearing:
#Kate-Gate: maybe she just exited, pursued by a bear
Oh, wouldn’t you know that the Kate Middleton story is now so big it just had to become “Kate-Gate”! The Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is…
A moral crossroads for the West
Palestinian children survey a series of destroyed apartment buildings in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo by Shareef Sarhan/United Nations/Flickr. Seven weeks have now passed since the International Court of Justice…
Open letter: Stop manipulating sexual assault
Street art in Tel Aviv criticizing international women’s organizations for ignoring the testimony of Israeli women who were victims of sexual violence on October 7, 2023. Photo by Nizzan Cohen/Wikimedia…
B’nai Brith panel: check it out!
Fabric Unravelling? A Dialogue on Society’s Shift: A Fireside Chat with Warren Kinsella and Stephanie Smyth Join B’nai Brith Canada’s Special Advisory Council to the League for Human Rights (SAC-LHR)…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kate Irwin reports on new research showing that dozens of the U.S.’ largest corporations are doling out more money to their five…
“Never again” must mean never again by anyone, against anyone
Maximilian Hess is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in London. He calls himself the child of an American Jewish and Catholic German couple and said antisemitism has…
Accessing Reclaim Cloud Containers by SSH and SFTP using Public and Private Keys
Goodness, I hate working with public and private keys. But that’s the only way to access Reclaim containers by SSH (for SSH file transfer and SSH terminal access). I’m using…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 14, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Former Quebec judge pleads guilty to manslaughter in the death of his wife #law #legal #lawtwitter via at @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/bdhtm7sz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
The Bond Is Breaking
David Ignatius writes that the relationship between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu is pretty tense: As the war in Gaza grinds on, President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a Will makes a gift to "my children", does that include adopted children?
What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift to “my children”, does that include…
Our Curious Relationship with Covid Studies
Some questionable ethics in recent studies are making the rounds. The process and ethics of Didier Raoult’s work, which led to the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a Covid treatment,…
An Alberta police force? Yep, it’s back! You can count on the UCP to never give up on a bad idea
One thing you can count on is that the United Conservative Party never gives up on a bad idea. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Take the notion of…
Measles redux
It’s back. Eliminated in 1998, thanks to vaccination, measles is making a comeback.This highly-contagious disease has been spreading around the world and there are now dozens of cases in this…