When Adolph Hitler sent his Brown Shirts to the Bundestag in the Weimar Republic elections in the 1920s and 30s, their purpose was not to govern but to obstruct. It is with some concern that we hear that conservative leader Pierre Poilievre thinks he can threaten the Canadian parliament with
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: passion over reason
Reason over passion. Pierre Trudeau become famous for that one. Some academics claim that Trudeau actually said “reason before passion,” but it doesn’t really matter. The sentiment is clear. Namely, that we should always be rational. Not emotional. It was a nice sentiment, and one that people liked at the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Caitlin Johnstone offers a grim but fair evaluation of the barely-existent left in the U.S. and elsewhere – while recognizing that the obvious implication is the need to build capacity to demand systemic change. And David Suzuki discusses how an obsession with perpetually
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: June 7, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: At least 100,000 Nova Scotians affected by cyber theft of government employee files #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/mpc5mzz9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Latest. Up the road.
Hillier PEC barn. Tweaked. For sale. pic.twitter.com/s83fKqeqyD — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 7, 2023
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment you make in you last will is temporary. That person will eventually need to apply to the court to be
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Zombie Economics
There is an idea that should have died decades ago. Unfortunately, like a zombie from the film The Night of the Living Dead, it refuses to die. The idea is trickle-down economics. It’s an idea that the Conservative Party of Canada keeps selling. Les Wittington writes: As the next federal
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: Health care capacity crisis? Wait ’til you see what Ford has planned.
Despite the current health care capacity crisis, the Ford government plans to cut health care service levels. Hospitals: The news is bad for hospital services. The new Financial Accountability Office (FAO) report on the government’s health care funding plan reports the government plans 3,000 new beds over the next decade — that’s about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Passage of the Day – Jo Bartosch – There is no ‘moderate’ amount of reality.
Jo Bartosch writes in The Critic about some of the more recent nuances of the gender debate in the UK. Women espousing a defence of their rights and reality are starting to be heard and acknowledged, and it is about damn time. “Acknowledgment of both reality and personal liberty must
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Conformity Experiments
This image comes from a century ago, of course. It’s still very hard to be different, but sometimes it’s vital. When I taught a course called the Challenge of Change, I offered up a number of challenges along the way. Students who were uncomfortable participating in any of them
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: PSA: Ontario Pollution Concentrations
You can find how much particulate matter is in the air in your community at this link, and air quality index forecasts here. Click on the little graph beside the number to see, in real time, how things are right now and whether or not it’s okay to open a
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Chowing Down.
There is no sadder thought to consider than Toronto with a mayor named Olivia Chow. And the fault would be blamed by some on the first-past-the-post voting. I deny that. It just serves to prove that you should not have first-past-the-post voting without run-off elections. How can you accept anyone
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Fighting Back
I am seeing some positive signs that people are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore. Specifically, I mean that people are realizing that we cannot continue to politely tolerate anti-gay anti-trans bashing while we wait for conservatives to come to their senses. Nope, its time to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I live rent-free in Mark Bourrie’s head
Mark Bourrie is acting up again. So, here's some facts about him that were filed in Court as evidence in Bernier v. Kinsella (which Bourrie lost). Bourrie tried to get them removed. The judge declined. #cdnpoli @ShillersLLP pic.twitter.com/t2fmeq2Mbl — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 6, 2023
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Bring Out Yer Band! *clang* Bring Out Yer Band! *clang*
When you learn music, your hemispheres fire off together, and since you’re not just sitting there listening to a lecture, you’re also doing some fine motor function (and/or gross motor function if you’re on percussion or canon), a bunch of those lobes are on fire too.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thom Hartmann offers a reminder of the broad-based growth and social progress which is possible when capitalists are required to pay reasonable tax rates. And conversely, Cory Doctorow examines the utterly destructive practices of private equity – which is being catered to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Lesson For All Of Us
Some ‘religious’ people will undoubtedly find this teaching from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hard to accept. Republicans have good reason to fear this woman, because her ability to cut through their BS is a master class in the art of political engagement. She absolutely understands how to sell a values driven argument
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Today’s tonic: “York’s Catholic school trustees are abusing their power by refusing to raise the Pride flag. Their day of reckoning is coming”
Today’s tonic: “York’s Catholic school trustees are abusing their power by refusing to raise the Pride flag. Their day of reckoning is coming,” by Martin Regg Cohn I couldn’t agree more with the columnist on this. It’s long past time for an Ontario leader to be brave enough to take
Continue readingThings Are Good: Oil is a Source of Wildfires
The wildfires burning from coast to coast in Canada have Canadians worried about their livelihood, neighbours, and the planet itself. Finding good news in fires is tough, but in the context of the climate crisis knowledge about to fight fire is good news. The best way to stop wildfires is
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