A peer-reviewed, Stanford-led study involving more than 50 scientists was published this week by Nature. It reveals alarming information about uncontained emissions from oil gas systems. The authors integrated approximately one million aerial site measurements into regional emissions inventories for regions in the USA. They found greenhouse gas releases were
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Contractual Entitlement to Notice and the Question of Mitigation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/ontario-employment-law-contractual.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He was a regular contributor to Canadian Dimension. Sign the petition to free Boris Kagarlitsky and all other Russian anti-war political prisoners. We, the undersigned, were
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Shame-Free Guide to Masks
Chuck created a slideshow guide of coping with mask wearing:
Continue readingCathie from Canada: #Kate-Gate: maybe she just exited, pursued by a bear
Oh, wouldn’t you know that the Kate Middleton story is now so big it just had to become “Kate-Gate”! The Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s France would be looking to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A moral crossroads for the West
Palestinian children survey a series of destroyed apartment buildings in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo by Shareef Sarhan/United Nations/Flickr. Seven weeks have now passed since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled that South Africa’s accusation that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza was “plausible.” A final
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Open letter: Stop manipulating sexual assault
Street art in Tel Aviv criticizing international women’s organizations for ignoring the testimony of Israeli women who were victims of sexual violence on October 7, 2023. Photo by Nizzan Cohen/Wikimedia Commons. All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: B’nai Brith panel: check it out!
Fabric Unravelling? A Dialogue on Society’s Shift: A Fireside Chat with Warren Kinsella and Stephanie Smyth Join B’nai Brith Canada’s Special Advisory Council to the League for Human Rights (SAC-LHR) on Thursday, March 21 at 7pm EST for a riveting virtual event. The evening will include two powerhouses, @kinsellawarren,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kate Irwin reports on new research showing that dozens of the U.S.’ largest corporations are doling out more money to their five top executives than they paid in total federal income tax. And Robert Renger makes the case that windfall gains in
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: “Never again” must mean never again by anyone, against anyone
Maximilian Hess is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in London. He calls himself the child of an American Jewish and Catholic German couple and said antisemitism has indelibly shaped his life. Hess says the world seems turned upside down. Comments that are antisemitic are ignored while legitimate criticisms
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Accessing Reclaim Cloud Containers by SSH and SFTP using Public and Private Keys
Goodness, I hate working with public and private keys. But that’s the only way to access Reclaim containers by SSH (for SSH file transfer and SSH terminal access). I’m using WinSCP for SFTP access and Powershell for SSH. You have to install OpenSSH in Windows to get it to work.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 14, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Former Quebec judge pleads guilty to manslaughter in the death of his wife #law #legal #lawtwitter via at @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/bdhtm7sz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Bond Is Breaking
David Ignatius writes that the relationship between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu is pretty tense: As the war in Gaza grinds on, President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are locked in a public quarrel about military strategy, political leadership and even casualty numbers. Like past disputes in the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a Will makes a gift to "my children", does that include adopted children?
What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift to “my children”, does that include adopted children? Under Ontario law, legally adopted children are generally presumed to have the same rights as biological children for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The 2024 Cojones Awards – Lifetime Award Winner JK Rowling
The only show to watch during ‘awards season’.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Our Curious Relationship with Covid Studies
Some questionable ethics in recent studies are making the rounds. The process and ethics of Didier Raoult’s work, which led to the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a Covid treatment, was scrutinized in the latest Science Magazine. Raoult was saying, ‘I understand everything, I have a solution,’ and people want
Continue readingAlberta Politics: An Alberta police force? Yep, it’s back! You can count on the UCP to never give up on a bad idea
One thing you can count on is that the United Conservative Party never gives up on a bad idea. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Take the notion of dumping the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and setting up an Alberta provincial police force, for example. Very unpopular. So you
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Measles redux
It’s back. Eliminated in 1998, thanks to vaccination, measles is making a comeback.This highly-contagious disease has been spreading around the world and there are now dozens of cases in this country, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. At the same time as measles is thriving, opposition to vaccinations has been increasing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Melissa Lem and Samantha Green write about the push from the health care community to ensure that fossil fuel companies can’t keep deceiving the public about the harm caused by their operations. And John Woodside reports on the majority popular support for a windfall
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