Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Beth Gardiner discusses how the oil industry has long understood how much fossil fuels would damage the Earth’s climate (even while fighting tooth and nail to avoid mitigating the damage). And Norm Farrell points out that the U.S.’ worsening water shortages pose significant
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Oh, Carey
(apologies to Steve Perry) You shouldn’t have posted Knowing how Montrealers feel And you should’ve known Dec. 6 and what it means Oh, I must’ve been a dreamer And I thought you were someone else ‘Course you’re livin’ in a bubble! Oh, Carey, regarding guns Hold on, hold your fire
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Can’t Handle The Truth
One of the best doctors in the country, not only for the health services he provides, but for his outreach regarding the climate crisis, is Dr. Joe Vipond. Here he is explaining the current health crisis and what can be done about it, while many others in his field shirk
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: December 5, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Iran Has Abolished Morality Police, Official Suggests, After Months of Protests #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3FrNWm1 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Will Steffan on What a Four Degrees Temperature Rise Looks Like in the Age of Ecological Disorder
For a trifecta of depressing posts for this Monday morning, I want to save this video here. It’s Will Steffan, an American chemist who became the executive director of the Australian National University Climate Change Institute, explaining back in 2018 that we only have two years to make a solid
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: What Going on With Kids Today? This is What "No Mitigations" Looks Like
Dr. Jeff Gilchrist’s thread on what’s going on with kids today. He does biomedical research. (I didn’t indent it because it’s long, but this is entirely his words:) “This virus season has been like no other with high hospitalization rates from RSV, Influenza and now more children are dying from
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Those Darn Hibernating Viruses!
Many viruses stay in the body, all sneaky-like, for years after a first infection. Chicken pox, which spreads from contact with blisters or mucus, shows up with flu-like symptoms and characteristic spots. Then 30-70 years later, it can develop into shingles in about 10% of people, which is a painful
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of December 5, 2022
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Dead End
Michael Harris believes that Danielle Smith won’t be Alberta’s premier for long: As premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith is a political mayfly; not long for the job. By May 29, the woman who was made premier by one per cent of Albertans will be a gaudy footnote, in the dismal
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 5, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 5, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Man facing 23 charges of uttering threats against Toronto Metropolitan University members Russian diplomat says prisoner swap with US remains possible Oath Keepers leader convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in Jan.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Woke Lesson Plans for Kindergarten from Ontario
Any lesson plan that includes a section called “Critical Consciousness” is an immediate red flag. This is the groundwork being put in place to drive deeper the wedge of identity politics in our society via our children. The goal of all CRT is not education, but rather, the creation of
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill 23, aka the ‘Bulldozer Bill’
Corruption, criminal disregard for the environment, tyrannical blocking of local councils. These are just a few issues with Bill 23 from Ontario’s Bolsonaro. The post Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill 23, aka the ‘Bulldozer Bill’ first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Help Wanted, Ontario.
We need a leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition for Ontario. Applicants must have qualifications and strong desire to replace current incompetent as premier. Political leaning should be to the left. The voters have had enough guff from conservatives. Applicants must be adult individuals, qualified to vote in Ontario with
Continue readingCathie from Canada: 🤣🤣🤣
From TG, this is the funniest summary ever of the #TwitterGate #TwitterFiles Musk-Tabbi story. I’m so glad somebody invented emojis: I am doing this as an image, rather than embedding the tweets, because the Twitter Bird needs to show. To follow the whole thread, click here The Daily Mail
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Danielle Smith’s Bill 1: The Wrecking Ball Effect
Wrecking ball: A heavy steel ball hung from a crane, used to demolish large buildings. Commonly used during the 1950s and 1960s. Considered one of the most common forms of large-scale coarse demolition.—Wikipedia Last week, Premier Danielle Smith unveiled the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act (Bill 1).
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The OECD issues a report on the importance of avoiding climate tipping points – and the reality that we’re on pace to far overshoot them. Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood notes that lobbying on behalf of fossil gas is the latest version of climate denialism
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Opposition NDP won’t allow itself to get sucked into the UCP’s desperate effort to fix the unfixable ASWAUCA
Alberta’s New Democratic Party has refused to allow itself to get sucked into the vortex Government’s effort to fix its unfixable Sovereignty Act. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Nope, “this bill is beyond saving,” NDP Economic Development Critic Deron Bilous told a short and sparsely attended news conference
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Five Questions for the Minister of Health
Dr. Christopher Leighton, MD, FRCPC, wrote the following letter to the Minister of Health, and encourages other to do likewise in order to “document the gross negligence of our government. If they will not act, we should be doing more: Protesting, petitioning our local MPPs. Eventually there will be an
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