Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of December 18, 2023
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 18, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 18, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: India’s Supreme Court upholds decision to end Kashmir’s special status Special Counsel…
Yo, Podcasters! Read This.
An excellent, important video was the inspiration for this short post (linked here, below) from a generally lackluster podcast. The musings arising after watching the video, however, I would say…
On Lookers and Thinkers
Can we teach how to think and problem solve our way out of a total collapse? I’m curious why some people are facing it all head on, reading the news…
Conservative Comrades?
They are certainly not comrades at arms. Recently Toronto Star writer Martin Reg Cohn wrote that the cancellation of the splitting up Peel region into the stand-alone municipalities of Mississauga,…
The contagious toxicity of Trump
Rudolph Giuliani was once a man of substance. A man of integrity. He served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and as the U.S. Attorney for…
Saturday Photo: Ice Doesn’t Reflect
Maybe you knew this, but I didn't. Ice doesn't reflect the same way that waer does. This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature…
Saturday Photo: Ice Doesn’t Reflect
Maybe you knew this, but I didn’t. Ice doesn’t reflect the same way that waer does. This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature…
What is socialism, anyway?
Detail of “Man at the Crossroads” (1933), a fresco by Mexican painter Diego Rivera, showing Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Socialism: A Very Short…
Is There Hope For Palestine
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side…
The death of Israel
“Birth of a New Nation.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States,…
Seven moral principles
Professor Robert Reich describes meeting with students to discuss tragic events in Gaza and Israel. It was a mixed group, some Jewish, some Palestinian, and some with other backgrounds. They…
Is There Hope For Palestine
I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to understanding the most and least that each side…
Police officer swears city officials agreed with plan to drive Edmonton homeless people from encampments before Christmas
Edmonton Lawyer Avnish Nanda yesterday posted on social media part of an affidavit in which Edmonton Police Service Staff Sergeant Michael Dreilich swears city representatives agreed with the police department’s…
Losing International Support
International support is an interesting phenomenon. Generally speaking, for most of my life, Israel has had pretty much unconditional support from all the “western powers”. It hasn’t been subjected to…
On Hearing Others
Louis Cozolino’s beautifully written book on neuroscience has an explanation near the end about our necessary interconnectedness. Communication from one body part to anther happens when messages throughout our body…
Collaboration a must to create ‘warrior schools’
Gordon Bell High School, Winnipeg. Photo by Nancy Greer/Facebook. In his 2021 memoir, Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Muller defines a warrior as someone who is “not defined by fighting. They are…
The Trouble in Toronto.
Have you heard what Toronto Council has done now? They have renamed Dundas Square at Yonge and Dundas Streets as Sankova Square and Centennial Stadium in the old Etobicoke Area…