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Predicting the Best and Worst of Digital Life By 2035
From: Elon-Pew’s Predicting the Best and Worst of Digital Life By 2035. Stephen Downes, an expert with the Digital Technologies Research Centre of the National Research Council of Canada, wrote,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Dearing, Gregory Cooper and Simon Willcock discuss the doom loop which is seeing worse-than-predicted effects of the climate breakdown resulting in vicious…
Preaching misogyny
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the biggest Protestant denomination in the US, descending from Baptists who settled in the American colonies in the 17th century. The southerners broke away…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 26, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto heads to the polls to elect a new mayor today. Here’s what to know #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mw3kb7ew – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Speed Cameras = Safer Streets
I live in a city where the police stopped enforcing traffic laws, so we’ve seen increased harm done by car drivers on people outside of cars. When the laws of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of June 26, 2023
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A Pup Tent In Their Own Backyard
Chantal Hebert writes that Pierre Poilievre’s performance has not been stellar. He appears to be taking the same road that his two predecessors took: Nine months into his tenure, there…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 26, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 26, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Barrie’s homelessness plan is being called ‘a clear violation of basic human…
Frankl’s Logotherapy
The second half of Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning was added in 1962 to provide greater detail of Logotherapy, in which patients must hear difficult things in contrast to psychoanalysts…
The Justin Shuffle.
The other day writer Althia Raj wrote an opinion piece in the Toronto Star about a possible cabinet shuffle by Justin Trudeau. I was pleased to see the research that…
How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change
Make Big Oil Pay march, San Francisco, 2010. Photo by Steve Rhodes/Flickr. In medieval times, gamekeepers trained dogs to the hunt by setting them on the trail of a dead…
Capturing carbon with machines is a failure—so why is it being subsidized?
Kelp forest. Photo by Robert Schwemmer/NOAA/Wikimedia Commons. Human activity, mostly the burning of fossil fuels, has raised Earth’s atmospheric carbon content by 50 percent, from 280 parts per million to…
Deena Hinshaw can’t be called a hero, but she is a victim of vindictive UCP retribution for things she did right
The enemy of mine enemy is my friend and all that, but it’s not clear that supporters of sound public health policy are on the right track if they decide…
A “Reset” to Alberta-Ottawa Relations (Chortle)
When Danielle Smith and her team met with federal ministers Jonathan Wilkinson and Dominic LeBlanc to discuss energy and climate change measures, there was some talk that Smith may be…
in which an email reminds me to resurrect a very old post: join athena to change amazon
Do you support Athena? Athena is a broad coalition of people and organizations who seek to change Amazon’s practices through a variety of tools and tactics, including from the inside.…
Advice For The Ages
Since most of us no longer attend Sunday services, we do not benefit from wise, well-considered homilies. The following advice from the philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1959 resonates now more…
We’re Back to Rhetoric of Welfare Cheaters
An old one, but the agenda still fits! According to Queen’s Park reporter Jack Hauen, on Monday Premier Ford said: “What drives me crazy, is people on Ontario Works–probably 3,400,000–that…
More Please Sir.
What a wonderful idea. We hear that Meta is getting out of the news business. It has something to do with the passing of a bill in Canada that says…