Every year, the government of Alberta does something that even Danielle Smith can’t ruin: the baby name list. I love this list, not only because it is vastly amusing and sometimes shocking, but because it makes for a really easy blog topic. It practically writes itself. The top baby names
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how conservative policies and rhetoric both kill people even looking only at homicides and suicides. Cory Doctorow points out how the conservative impetus to exacerbate inequality has resulted in the housing crisis – including through new means for the wealthy
Continue readingThings Are Good: Bike Lanes are Really Good for Businesses (seriously, there are too many studies proving this)
Bike lanes are good for business and everybody knows it, except for business owners and local politicians afraid for of small minded businesses. Over at Business Insider they’re running an article that summarizes the current knowledge about bike lanes and how good they are. Like anything, there are winners and
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 1, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman surprised after 20-year-old government fines suddenly tank credit score #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/ykhz67w3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: follow the Hamas money
The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protestors are getting paid to protest. Not all of them. But enough of them – enough to raise concerns about the “reality” of what we are seeing on our TV and computer screens, says the evidence and experts. This newspaper first revealed in January that Israel-hating protesters
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: 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 readingThe Daveberta Podcast: Why Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse is running for the Alberta NDP leadership
Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse joins the Daveberta Podcast to share why she is running to succeed Rachel Notley as leader of Alberta’s NDP and why she feels so passionately about protecting and conserving Alberta’s headwaters, strengthening childhood education, and defeating Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party in the next election. The
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Yup. Still Here. Still Need to Clean the Air.
Covid has been implicated in creating more cases of PANDAS – pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. A 9-year-old girl dramatically changed personality after a viral infection she didn’t even know she had! It was only after years of treating her symptoms as a mental health condition that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Patterns – Part 2
In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surrounding changes in the capital-gains attribution rate that the media have fuelled. The same narrative structure seems to be permeating coverage of the widespread campus protests
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: The Perfect Image of Pierre Poilievre
A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly generic campaign image of him enjoying the services of a small business in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The caption read: “Nathan served up just the shot we needed to get us going this morning.” The business’s name, however,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Happy birthday, Daisy!
Daisy Group is 18! We’ve had some great clients and colleagues over those many years, and we’re still growing – with two new Daisy folks hired just this week! Happy birthday to us!
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Megaproject madness
Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Oxford Global Projects has written about proponents getting large undertakings approved by using “strategic misrepresentation” when they conjure up budgets. Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact — lying — in response to incentives in the budget.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Edmonton and Calgary mayors appear gobsmacked by unexpected UCP move to slash funds to low-income transit pass program
Having announced Monday it would spend $9 million cooking up a fanciful provincial railway “masterplan” that includes a public transit component, the United Conservative Party Government yesterday informed Edmonton and Calgary it is ending its contribution to their low-income transit pass programs. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek (Photo: Calgary.ca). The mayors
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Green New Deal: “A socialist plot to take away your ice cream.”
By consensus, climate scientists believe that future restorative actions will be futile if policies followed today are insufficient. In our daily lives, we routinely limit or reduce potential harms. However, elected representatives choose not to apply the precautionary principle if they believe economic interests would be negatively affected.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 30, 2024
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stan Cox writes about the looming eco-collapse – and its connection to a relentless focus on top-heavy “growth” with no regard for well-being or sustainability. – Dharna Noor reports on the U.S. House oversight committee’s investigation showing how the oil industry has
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Me in Newsweek on Columbia U. haters
Here: Similarly, consultant Warren Kinsella said: “At the firm I founded 18 years ago, and in the war rooms I’ve run for the past 31 years, I’ve employed hundreds of young people. I’ll never again hire one from @Columbia.” According to his website, Kinsella previously founded the Daisy Consulting Group.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 30, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Harmful and discriminatory’: Ontario school board investigating video showing comments staff member made towards student wearing a keffiyeh #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mssd8tsw – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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