Yeah, lots of financial press whining in the last 2 weeks about how raising taxes on the rich or on corporations would be so unfair & so awful — but “protect the rich!” just isn’t going to cut it as a #BaloneyFactory slogan. — Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Manufactured ignorance
Many readers of IN-SIGHTS examine public issues with great care and email private comments to me along with links to worthwhile material. What follows comes from a paper sent to me by a long-time follower North Van’s Grumps, fellow blogger at Blog Borg Collective. The complete paper shown below is
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Budget ’24
Now about my tax dollars. Finance Minister Freeland tabled her 2024 budget Tuesday and, by and large, I approve. The signs are about right: the NDP non-committal and the Conservatives screaming. Some random thoughts on bits that caught my attention: A hefty slice for housing—$8.5 billion in new spending—is much
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Douglas, Lewis, Broadbent, and Layton spinning in their graves?
This item, contributed by a reader, comments upon BC Hydro now offering a ten to fifteen billion dollar commitment to private power producers. This continues Gordon Campbell’s aim of twenty years ago: PRIVATIZATION BY STEALTH.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: 10 reasons to be optimistic
It’s easy to get depressed these days. Whether you are Jewish or not, we live in a depressing, difficult time. Tuesday night‘s outrage was yet more of the same: foul-mouthed Hamasniks blocking a major road and railway crossing in Toronto’s West end – pushing at police officers and likening them
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jenna Wenkoff discusses how “ethical oil” is purely a (risible) marketing concept rather than any meaningful description of actual fossil fuel operations, while Chris Russell discusses how the tar sands’ environmental disinformation is even worse than people assume. Ian Urquhart writes that the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 17, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Proposed class-action lawsuit against Shoppers Drug Mart alleges ‘unsafe and unethical corporate practices’ #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yz84a4k3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: In The Gutter
Craig Wallace writes that you can’t run a country on outrage and insults. But that, apparently, is what Pierre Poilievre intends to do. Wallace writes: If recent polls remain the same, sometime between now and October 2025 Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Leader Pierre Poilievre will become Canada’s next prime
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: 4 Things to know when making a Last Will and Testament
If you’re making the Last Will there are 4 things that you should think about. 1. Who do I want to leave my property to after I pass away? 2. Who’s the person that I want to appoint to take care of all of my property and affairs after I
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: Going professional
2008 had been a busy year for me. I wrote dozens of essays and articles, ran data for a pair of election campaigns, started my first newspaper column, became a regular guest on a local radio show — Royal City Rag with Jan Hall on the University of Guelph campus
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Can We NOT put Males in Female Prison – Oh Canada…
Canada is putting men into female prisons and not just non-violent ones, but the ones that have caused serious harm or murdered their victims who happen to be mostly children and females. I want to meet the people who thought this was – somehow – a good idea. I’m not
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Inflation? Never heard of it! Finance Minister Nate Horner weighs in on public service bargaining
To hear Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner tell it Monday, you’d almost think there’s been no inflation in Alberta since the pandemic. Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President Guy Smith in a typical pose (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Well, Mr. Horner is a scion of Alberta’s enduring and (mostly) Conservative
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emilia Belliveau makes the case for the fossil fuel sector to start paying for the harm it causes through carbon pollution, rather than being subsidized to lock us into dirty energy for decades to come. And Glenn Scherer reports on Johan Rockström’s work
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: PLANNING FOR THE LONG TERM
I am delighted to host this guest post by Ottawa caregiver and author, Lise Cloutier-Steele. Lise is the author of There’s No Place Like Home: A guide to help caregivers manage the long-term care experience and her website can be found at www.ottawacaregiver.com. I am 71 years old, and like
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFactof the Day: The Duty to Accommodate Disability in the Workplace
Every Ontario employer has a duty to accommodate an employee’s disability up to the point of undue hardship. An employee is however responsible for requesting the accommodation and providing the employer with adequate information about the nature of his or her request. This includes producing supporting medical documentation, if requested.
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Economic inequality by design
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told that putting more wealth in the hands of the already wealthy will benefit everyone through greater economic growth, more jobs, and higher wages. Academic studies find the opposite is true. However, with most major media outlets controlled by the super-rich,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Counter arguments – Debunking White Privilege
Grabbing the article in full. Charitably exploring the topic of privilege and specifically ‘white privilege’ is a contentious topic. Here is one case against the idea that White Privilege is reasonable concept in our society. From the Michael Dahlen Objective Standard – “On his SiriusXM Radio show in 2019,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope call out five of the most insidious fossil fuel propaganda messages. Fiona Harvey reports on Todd Stern’s rightful observation that the continued pushing of fossil fuels in the name of “grownup” decision-making in fact represents a catastrophic failure
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the “grassroots” blockades
Traffic into Chicago’s O’Hare airport, one the world’s busiest: blocked. Traffic along the busy I-880 mega-highway in Oakland, California: blocked. Traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: blocked. Traffic on the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River: blocked. And, here in Canada – traffic in Vancouver, leading to a critical
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