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Kungs, The Knocks – People
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Cory Doctorow examines how private equity systematically loots both the pension funds which provide capital for its acquisitions, and the businesses which it…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Nebraska Teen Who Used Pills to End Pregnancy Gets 90 Days in Jail #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/4a8kxast – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 22, 2015 via Wise Law Blog
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 22, 2015 via Wise Law Blog: Should the Public Continue to Fund Courts to Resolve Personal, Civil Disputes? http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2015/01/should-public-continue-to-fund-courts.html – Garry J. Wise,…
Science as a Way of Thinking
Some Carl Sagan on Charlie Rose: “We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and…
The Trains to Nowhere.
The Last Spike was a momentous event in Canadian history, a hundred and thirty-eight years ago. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway across Canada also marked the beginning of…
Stuff Danielle Smith says: Apparently Alberta Health Services decentralization can make the law of supply and demand go away!
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, apparently all we need to do to find anesthesiologists willing to work in rural Alberta is hand the power to hire them over local…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 20, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Correctional Service to release results of review into Paul Bernardo’s transfer #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/49jps466 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Fighting eviction to build class power
Photo by Peter Pelisek/Flickr The Tenant Class, a new book by author and researcher Ricardo Tranjan, is a timely and welcome intervention. As rents rise the homeless population grows. Meanwhile…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Investments
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the…
Things Will Be Different
Many people believe that the next election in the United States will be a replay of the previous two elections: the Democrats will win the popular vote, but the election…
Confronting the unmitigated disaster of climate change through system change
This article was originally published in Canadian Dimension’s now-defunct web blog on July 27, 2011. In an ongoing effort to restore our rich archive and highlight some of our favourite…
Darwin on our Capacity for Love
Linda McQuaig wrote about the Ontario Place debacle: “Ford plans to “spend $400 million building a parking garage for the convenience of well-to-do spa users, while scrimping on the most…
Doug Ford’s Summer.
This could be Ontario premier Doug Ford’s last best summer on the Muskoka Lakes of Ontario. As he speeds around the lakes on his personal water scooter, the storm clouds…
It’s too damn hot!
In the last 48 hours: Rome beat its all time temperature record by a whole two degrees Celsius. China beat its all time temperature record by almost two degrees Celsius.…
Unextractables
Most Canadian politicians are blithe to climate science. The federal government is building or assisting construction of fossil fuel pipelines worth $45 billion. In the last few days, BC Premier…
Break the Law, Get More than $11M
If you donate thousands of dollars to the Saskatchewan Party, there are rewards. A private company wanted a glass office building in Wascana Park. They’re chums with the SaskParty and…
Alberta sacrifices agriculture for oil
There is panic on the prairies. The greatest fear of farmers and ranchers alike is stalking the land—drought. Drought has always been a part of prairie life, of course, but…
Not So Different from the US
Crutches_and_Spice, an American, has some hard truths for Canadians. She responded to this comment: “23 years old and I’ve never lived through a school shooting in my country, I get…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Dessler writes about the non-linear nature of the environmental effects of carbon pollution – with the result that we’re seeing cascading effects…