The Alberta NDP now has 85,144 members eligible to vote in the party’s leadership race, chief returning officer Amanda Freistadt said in a news release yesterday. Meanwhile, this morning, candidate Gil McGowan announced in an email to supporters that he is dropping out of the race. “I’m writing today to
Continue readingThings Are Good: mRNA Vaccine Used to Fight Brain Tumour
Brain tumours are scary and very difficult to deal with, current treatments include invasive surgery and/or radiation. The advent of mRNA based vaccines is making a difference in how we can treat various brain cancers and the early results are looking promising. A team just found a way to get
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of May 13, 2024
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Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada woefully unprepared for second Trump presidency
US President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House, June, 2019. Photo courtesy the White House/Wikimedia Commons. Don’t cosy up to a dictatorial neighbour. Japan and Europe have learned this lesson, but not Canada. This country is woefully unprepared for a Trump election victory in
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 13, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 13, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Have you been removed from your family doctor’s patient list for visiting an Ontario walk-in clinic? Number of antisemitic incidents reached record high in 2023, says B’nai Brith Canada audit Judge Finds Trump
Continue readingCathie from Canada: More writings about the Israel-Hamas War: Biden’s dream, IDF goals, casualty statistics, Israel divestment
I have seen several recent useful posts and comments about the Israel-Hamas War so I wanted to share them. First, an interesting analysis from Dan Rather about Biden’s Big Dream For The Middle East: …why did Hamas attack [on Oct 7] seemingly out of the blue after years of, if
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Scourge of the Internet
No I am not writing about the fear and hate mongering taking over the Internet although they are the greatest evils of the Internet. And I am not taking about corporate social media with all it’s evils of turning the customer into the product, at least it can facilitate communication
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Bleeding Heart for Bleeding Hearts
The other name for this in English is Dutchman’s britches, or so my grandmother told me. In French it’s sometimes also called the equivalent, coeur saignant, but using its botanical name, dicentra, is pretty nice too. I love the way it emergences from the ground as soon as the weather
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Were the presidents of Alberta’s two largest universities pushed to call the cops to remove Gaza protesters, or did they jump?
Were the presidents of Alberta’s two largest universities pushed to use cops dressed up as stormtroopers to violently clear campus encampments used by students for a few hours to peacefully protest the continuing deadly assault on Gaza? University of Alberta President Bill Flanagan (Photo: Queens University). Or did they jump
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Who He And They Are
Yesterday, Donald Trump crossed the river over to New Jersey and held a rally. Marianne Levine reports: Donald Trump on Saturday insulted the prosecutor who has charged him in his ongoing New York criminal trial, speaking at a large rally on the Jersey Shore filled with personal attacks, coarse language
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: All for Health, Health for All
The World Health Assembly is meeting in two weeks for the 77th time. Their theme is in my clunky title up there as they claim collective solidarity around pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR), WHO financing, and emerging threats including climate change. They hope to adopt a new global pandemic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Religious Disservice – Evolution is Good for Faith as well.
Seems to a be a bit heavy on the killing bit. I’m the sure love is in there somewhere though…
Continue reading52 Ideas: On Barbados, Jamaica and Peter Mansbridge
I love watching “Good Talk” on Fridays. It is a segment of Peter Mansbridge’s Friday SiriusXM show called “The Bridge”. There is something about listening to the wisdom that comes from Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert and Bruce Anderson which uplifts my week. For me, it has become sort of a
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Happy Mother’s Day and other comedy bits
I liked this New Yorker cartoon — says it all. I also saw this thread on X and yes, I could appreciate this sentiment: Anyone who has ever worked in food service knows Mother’s Day brunch is the worst shift of the year. People are such assholes about everything which
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: What’s a CEO worth?
Some French lawmakers are pursing a goal that needs to be more widespread. They are seeking to cap pay for corporate executives at 20 times the earnings of a company’s lowest-paid employee. They were inspired in part by the outrage generated by the announcement that French car maker Stellants would
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Canada is not a world leader on climate
I won’t be much affected by climate change, but my grandchildren will pay a very high price. For older folks like me, watching this country do the wrong things for the wrong reasons is difficult. Many of us care much about the world we leave to future generations. Political leaders
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the loneliest country in the world
JERUSALEM – One of the first things you notice about this country, when you come here, is the people. Not the beautiful sights, so much, these days. The people. At your hotel, there aren’t any spare rooms. They’re all full. In the mornings at the included breakfast, you see exhausted
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Self Organizing Criticality: Slowly, then All at Once
Alex Walker, Climate Finance Program Manager at Environmental Defence, wrote about spotlighting and mythbusting this week’s government studies on climate change and finance: “The Senate Banking commmittee had a study on Thursday of Senator Rosa Galvaz’s amazing Climate-Aligned Finance Act. I wouldn’t call all the witnesses experts on climate finance. Let’s
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