Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sigal Samuel discusses the potential to better target investments toward well-being – though it seems odd to criticize measures of health as a…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 20, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario may bring in new rules to make it harder to place a lien on your home #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mtnab586 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Forestry for the Future campaign reveals the corruption of Canadian news media
A 2018 study by Montréal-based Union des Consommateurs found “serious ethical problems” with native advertising in Canada, including “the erosion of the impenetrable wall that, in the news media, must…
Free Liberal talking points
Because I’m always trying to be helpful, here are my recommended talking points for the Trudeau government. 1. Hamas ≠ Innocent Palestinians. 2. Kill, destroy, wipe out Hamas. There you…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from November 23, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from November 23, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Reflections on the Articling Debate That Was https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/reflections-on-articling-debate-that-was.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Improving Air Quality for Children Act
Our children are mandated to be in school. It should also be mandated that the building have clean air for children to breathe! Chandra Pasma, MPP for Ottawa-West and Nepean,…
Boundless, scalable, clean energy
Decarbonization is a catchword used by the fossil fuel and nuclear power industries. But each of those groups cannot eliminate inherent dangers. Unless we develop safe, carbon-free energy sources, we…
Betrayal of the Father.
It was the balance that Pierre Trudeau brought to the use of language in Canada that his eldest son betrayed. In Bill C-13’s enactment by parliament in June of this…
Will Danielle Smith’s pension scheme drive a wedge right into the heart of Conservative support?
In the past few hours, a lot of metaphorical ink has been spilled on the duelling open letters about the Alberta Government’s scheme to pull the province’s still-skeptical population out…
A loss for illiberalism, a gain for democracy
Generations of Communism is not the best training for democracy. So perhaps we shouldn’t have expected that when the Soviet Union collapsed under its own dead weight, the countries that…
We get letters: a Hamas fan writes in
This is the kind of stuff I’ve been getting – although usually I’m just accused of genocide and supporting apartheid, etc. (Yes, I blocked him.)
How Dishonest Is Premier Moe?
He’s lying about the impetus for the hateful Parental Bill of Rights that he’s (illegally) using to cancel Charter Rights of children. Almost unbelievable, now according to the Minister it's…
Official enemies and Western ‘Newspeak’ on Israel-Palestine
Protesters, one holding a Palestinian flag, gather in London’s Trafalgar Square, October 14, 2023. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Wikimedia Commons. When reading the Western press I sometimes feel like I am…
About That Hospital in Gaza
There’s been a lot of discussion back and forth about the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Hamas claims it was an Israeli bomb or missile attack, Israel claims it’s…
Memes Saved the Lives of Anti-Vaxxers
COVID brought forth more than just a disease of the body, it also raised the profile of anti vaxxers so much so that they shut down Canada’s capital for weeks…
The British roots of the conflict in Palestine
Postcard with the text of the Balfour Declaration in Hebrew. Published by Ya’ackov Ben-Dov, Bezalel, Jerusalem. Image courtesy the Levy Auction House/Wikimedia Commons. Israeli flags are flying over all government…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: How important is it to have a Will if you are in your 30s and don’t have many assets?
Having a Last Will is still important, even if you are young. There is no better way to provide for your family and your future. You can create a Last…
Of Course It’s Airborne and We Should All Be in N95s
Just saving these here for posterity. Check out this whole thread of documents found on originsearch; there’s tons more in the thread, but I have no idea why or how…
Bringing It Home.
It is obvious that the federal conservative party has more money than good sense these days. Watching their current $3 million advertising campaign, one can only think of the despair…