This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emilia Belliveau makes the case for the fossil fuel sector to start paying for the harm it causes through carbon pollution, rather than being subsidized to lock us into dirty energy for decades to come. And Glenn Scherer reports on Johan Rockström’s work
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: PLANNING FOR THE LONG TERM
I am delighted to host this guest post by Ottawa caregiver and author, Lise Cloutier-Steele. Lise is the author of There’s No Place Like Home: A guide to help caregivers manage the long-term care experience and her website can be found at www.ottawacaregiver.com. I am 71 years old, and like
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFactof the Day: The Duty to Accommodate Disability in the Workplace
Every Ontario employer has a duty to accommodate an employee’s disability up to the point of undue hardship. An employee is however responsible for requesting the accommodation and providing the employer with adequate information about the nature of his or her request. This includes producing supporting medical documentation, if requested.
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Economic inequality by design
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told that putting more wealth in the hands of the already wealthy will benefit everyone through greater economic growth, more jobs, and higher wages. Academic studies find the opposite is true. However, with most major media outlets controlled by the super-rich,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Counter arguments – Debunking White Privilege
Grabbing the article in full. Charitably exploring the topic of privilege and specifically ‘white privilege’ is a contentious topic. Here is one case against the idea that White Privilege is reasonable concept in our society. From the Michael Dahlen Objective Standard – “On his SiriusXM Radio show in 2019,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope call out five of the most insidious fossil fuel propaganda messages. Fiona Harvey reports on Todd Stern’s rightful observation that the continued pushing of fossil fuels in the name of “grownup” decision-making in fact represents a catastrophic failure
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the “grassroots” blockades
Traffic into Chicago’s O’Hare airport, one the world’s busiest: blocked. Traffic along the busy I-880 mega-highway in Oakland, California: blocked. Traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: blocked. Traffic on the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River: blocked. And, here in Canada – traffic in Vancouver, leading to a critical
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 15, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ottawa says avoid all travel to Israel as the country braces for potential Iranian attack #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/56dhy5jp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More About Doug The Slug
In my previous post, I wrote rather scathingly of Doug Ford and his refusal to put back into the building code a requirement for new home builds to have a plug built in to facilitate EV chargers. To clarify any confusion left by that post, the extra $500 charge to
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 15, 2024
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Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Today’s The Day
Today’s the day Donald Trump goes to criminal court. Jennifer Rubin writes: The day has finally arrived for the historic trial in Manhattan of Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business documents. The case concerns Trump’s scheme to conceal embarrassing information from voters in the 2016 election. Derided as a
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Tell the dam truth
Tell The Dam Truth (TTDT) is a California based non-profit with initial funding from outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia. TTDT’s aim is to protect and restore free-flowing rivers by educating people about the impacts of river-destroying projects. The group promotes decommissioning of existing dams.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Psychosomatic Illness
I don’t know anything about Fibromyalgia, yet I wince when someone says it’s psychosomatic. I wonder about almost any conditioned considered psychosomatic now. I realize I’m using the term in the vernacular to mean “it’s all in your head”. That’s how it is largely understood even though, technically, psychosomatic illness can refer to anything
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 15, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 15, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Supreme Court of Canada Releases 2023 Year in Review RBC fires CFO Nadine Ahn after investigation into personal relationship with employee Senior Swiss women prevail in landmark climate case at Europe’s human rights
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith sets out to ensure the ideological purity of federally funded university research in Alberta
It must seem unfair to the United Conservative Party base that flat-earth researchers consistently get the short end of the stick when it comes to federal research funds while the spherical-earth crowd so obviously favoured by Ottawa gets all the dough! CBC Power & Politics host David Cochrane (Photo: BroadcastDialogue.com).
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The ‘stay-out-of-my-backyard’ (‘no-funds-for-you!’) bill
Ric McIver, the Minister for Municipal Affairs, is the point man on Bill 18, the Provincial Priorities Act or as Danielle Smith like to call it, the ‘stay-out-of-my-backyard’ bill (images of cranky old men shaking their fists at kids cutting across their lawns spring to mind). Bill 18 will force
Continue readingIn This Corner: Saving the world one bag at a time
Before the federal government and The People’s Republic of Edmonton declared war on paper or plastic bags, stores would provide customers with bags, gratis, to tote away their purchases. Hey, it was the least they could do after we spent $200 on groceries. But now that bags are evil, we
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Trans Athletes …
So, wayyyy back in 2021, I wrote a piece pointing out that a lot of the arguments about whether transgender athletes (and particularly trans women as athletes) have “intrinsic advantages” in sport are very questionable, and there simply isn’t a lot of good science that backs up the claim. A
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