Miscellaneous material to start your week. – William Becker rightly argues that the U.S.’ practice of prioritizing fossil fuel donor profits over the health of the public and the planet represents the biggest energy scam in its history. Norm Farrell discusses how Canada is similarly one of the world’s biggest
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: What is University For, Part 2
Does making it all easier make us lazier educators, or is neoliberal politics to blame?? The Quality of Teaching has been Strained: This is a back-in-MY-day story, but I think it’s necessary to look at how far we’ve strayed. When I was in teacher’s college, we had to make it
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 13, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘We have no judge for you’: Man’s assault charges dropped weeks before trial due to lack of judges in Toronto #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/5n7yh4fp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta NDP now has more than 85,000 members, party says; Gil McGowan drops out of leadership race
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
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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
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