If I told my spouse that I had decided to buy a car for $30,000, then I returned home with one priced at $150,000, she would bar me from the house. The same should happen to every person from bureaucrat to politician who said taxpayers ought to build an oil
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Irfan discusses the possibility that carbon pollution may have reached its peak in 2023 – while recognizing that even if that proves true, there’s still a long way to go in reducing the additional climate carnage being inflicted by continued emissions.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 25, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case #law #legal #LawTwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/4b4atrtr – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Imagine If Goliath Won
A group of scientists backed by years of solid science couldn’t sway the mighty World Health Organization from their path of destruction, and we’ve all paid the price. I’m just highlighting Julia Doubleday’s latest article on the airborne fiasco here. Her piece in The Gauntlet: “The WHO’s claim that COVID
Continue readingThings Are Good: This 28-ton Kite Provides 1.2MW of Power
One of bizarre criticisms of solar power is that it only works when the sun hits them which means some areas are hesitant to install large solar arrays (honestly, this criticism is so strange since energy use is highest during daytime). Lunar energy, on the other hand, works all day
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Don’t Come A-Knockin’ When The Guard Dog’s A-Rockin’
One has to hand it to the Americans. They seem endlessly inventive when it comes to devising new ways to inflict mayhem. However, while the following is legal in 48 states, I am sorry to inform those who love to embrace new technology that this stand-in for Fido would likely run
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale of the assets of the estate to address the debt, but that’s it. There are some exceptions- like if a
Continue readingExcited Delirium: PoiLIEvre Shows Just How F*ed We’ll All Be Next Year
PoiLIEvre is overstepping his confidence … hopefully it will backfire on him. The post PoiLIEvre Shows Just How F*ed We’ll All Be Next Year first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingtcnorris: New location for this blog
I have moved my blogging to a new Substack here: tcnorris Substack.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Plan to have patients at Calgary clinic pony up ‘membership fees’ might have had a chance if the UCP’s War on Ottawa had heated up sooner
Timing is everything, so Dr. Sally Talbot-Jones must have been kicking herself yesterday for launching her effort to charge patients as much as $4,800 a year up front to see a doctor in a timely fashion when she did. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). It must have been
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: News unfit to print (or broadcast)
Many citizens shape their opinions by paying attention to corporate media. What if those news providers are unreliable?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sean Boynton reports on new research showing that the deadline 2021 heat dome was significantly exacerbated by the climate crisis. And William Boos discusses modeling showing a strong likelihood that we’ll see another record-breaking summer for heat and humidity in the tropics. – Meanwhile,
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 24, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto Catholic District School Board will not fly ‘pro-life’ flag #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3s6eruur – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the enemy is inside the house
There’s a scene in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies that applies, and doesn’t, to the madness that now grips the civilized world. In Golding’s famous book, a plane full of boys crashes on a deserted island during a nuclear war. The pilot dies; the boys survive. The boys soon
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On Ulmar Zameer
H/t Graeme MacKay Yesterday’s post highlighted the rush to judgement many people embraced when Ulmar Zameer was charged with murdering a police officer. People like Doug Ford, John Tory and Patrick Brown condemned the fact that he was granted bail. A publication ban prevented the reasons for the bail from
Continue readingThings Are Good: Improve Your Mental Health by Ignoring Celebrities
Are you interested in the comings and goings of the celebrity set? If so, you may want to put down your mobile and go touch grass. Researchers have found a direct connection between mental health and the worshipping of celebrities, as in people not doing so well will tend to
Continue readingScripturient: Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Maybe I’m just old and jaded, but after watching the 2023 movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, I couldn’t figure out why the film wasn’t in WalMart’s $5 bin rather than on the racks at $15. This is from a fan not only of fantasy novels and movies, but
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: An Intergenerational Battle
A battle is brewing between Canada’s generations. Max Fawcett writes: Young Canadians can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the latest federal budget. For the first time in their lives, they’re looking at a budget that explicitly tries to cater to their needs and interests — and
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?
An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and properties that you own and distributing it to your heirs. If you’re thinking about who should be your Executor, you want to name a
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: Entering the Ottawa bubble
Even before I left Guelph, I began helping Jean-Marc Lacoste, the nominated Liberal candidate for my home riding of Laurentides–Labelle, having met him on my last visit before moving in the spring of 2010. [ Continued from Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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