“Human rights” lawyer spouts B.S.
• Hamas hasn’t killed any Jews outside “occupied territories.” • Firebombing a synagogue may not be anti-Semitic. • A Montreal Imam who called for Jews to be exterminated, didn’t. That’s…
Antisemitic attacks in Canada and elsewhere must be condemned and stopped; Peace and security for Palestinians will never happen as long Hamas terrorists remain in power in Gaza
The horrific attacks on innocent Israeli civilians on October 7th by Hamas terrorist thugs truly shocked me and I continue to reel over the details of the brutality, as well…
Council’s First Year, Part Two
Part two of the series in Collingwood Today about our council’s first year asked “how councillors felt this council has set itself apart from previous Collingwood councils.” As with the…
Premiers can agree not to poach health care workers from one another, but that’s easier said than done
A week ago, Canada’s premiers ended a meeting in Halifax agreeing that they shouldn’t poach health care workers from one another. Nova Scotia Conservative Premier Tim Houston (Photo: Screenshot of…
Effective Altruism
Coming out of the Silicon Valley libertarian sphere, Effective Altrusim is basically little more than 1980s era Reaganomics with a side order of philanthropy to paper over the rotting stench…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 13, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 13, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Donald Trump takes the stand to defend his business empire in New…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 13, 2023
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We Need to Backtrack and Explain the Disease
Kaveri Roy is an Assistant Professor of Nursing, and she explained how Covid works to her first year students last year in very simple terms, like this: “I teach patho…
Warnings issued and ignored years ago
Had they paid attention to science years ago, political and industrial leaders would have known the world was heading for a crisis. Climate change is widely recognized as an existential…
Trying Trump.
The trial that Donald Trump and his co-defendants are currently undergoing in New York City is not a question of guilt or innocence. The State of New York knows that…
Oddities and funny stuff: from the Valeriepieris circle to a bull riding a motorcycle
First up, the Valeriepieris circle, which is sorta fascinating. Out of a total world population of 8 billion, there are 4.2 billion living in this circle. And this is fascinating…
Here We Go Again: Restructuring AHS
According to Danielle Smith, AHS isn’t “truly accountable” and it’s been a “management problem” for quite some time. So she’s going to blow it up. This week some brave soul…
How It Began
When it all started, I immediately started reading news from China and Italy, figuring that what was happening there could easily happen here, and we should be prepared. Esther Hopkins…
Communications Constricted.
Ontario premier Doug Ford tends to bluster. Take the recent meeting of the premiers in Nova Scotia, where he claimed that the federal carbon levy was “the worst tax ever.”…
Chris Hedges: Letter to the children of Gaza
“Children of Gaza.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the…
Saturday Photo: Early Snow…
Snow this week, the second flurry of the year. My birthday is November 8, and last year was the first year since I arrived in Montreal decades ago that it…
My latest: charge them, prosecute them, convict them – then jail them
What is hate, and what isn’t? What words are against the law, and what words are allowed? Actions are easier to judge. When a six-year-old boy is stabbed to death…
as genocide continues in gaza: 11.11
The Palestine Project I almost missed my annual Remembrance Day post. While a handful of countries commemorate the most pointless and horrific of wars to end all wars, a genocide…
Council’s First Year Considered
I did a few facepalms while reading CollingwoodToday’s four-part piece on Collingwood Council’s first year in office. CwoodToday approached each of them with questions “about their accomplishments so far, to…