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
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Today’s warning: “EXPLAINER – Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like”
“EXPLAINER – Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like” As we surge forward, expecting everyone else to pay to stop the effects of climate change. As we hop in our big vehicles to drive to local stores to do more shopping, or jump onto our
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: How far we have fallen
Hamas military wing logo projected on the side of a building at the University of Toronto last night.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: From Israel to here
Back home from Israel. Photo: where Hamas came into Kfar Aza on Oct. 7. I’m on the spot where they killed 20 young people before killing many more. Jews and Israel feel isolated and afraid. They feel alone. Well, I’m with them. And I am going to bear witness to
Continue readingAlberta Politics: A timely message to our many anti-woke friends and acquaintances: Sorry about yer Rex Murphy!
Back in the day when the Calgary Herald was still a real newspaper with a newsroom, dozens of reporters, and a capital T in the first word of its title, there was a bit of gallows humour that by custom had to be performed by the first journalist to learn
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
The Ambientalist – Lost Language
Continue readingIn This Corner: Boy names for 2023, from Aabnay to Zyre
Last week, I took a look at the interesting names given to children-assigned-female-at-birth, formerly known as girls. This week, let us peruse the 6,630 different boy names of 2023. The top 10 names are the same as last year, in a different order: Noah, Liam, Oliver, etc. The real fun
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating on the road: The Barrington Steakhouse in Halifax
My first trip to Halifax was in 2018 for a Liberal Party convention and after a day of conventioneering I enjoyed a great steak dinner at The Barrington Steakhouse and Oyster Bar. So a return trip was definitely in order for my trip to Canada’s second best coast in late
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Taking Sides
H/t Theo Moudakis A new report finds a dramatic rise in antisemitism in Canada since the Hamas attack in Israel provoked a protracted, ongoing invasion of Gaza, thus far killing over 35,000 Palestinians. Based on incidents reported to B’nai Brith, including through collaborations with police, there were 5,791 documented acts
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 24, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 24, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Orders Money Mart to Pay $30,000 for Failure to Investigate Harassment http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/ontario-human-rights-tribunal-orders.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Instead of a path to net zero, we’re on the eve of destruction
The concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere is a critical environmental issue. One important cause involves human activities such as the production and use of fossil fuels. Canada’s government just released the National Inventory Report (NIR) detailing GHG emissions for the years up to 2022. It provides useful
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It’s never too early to panic! UCP introduces bill to extend its term and ‘control everything, everywhere, all at once’
The United Conservative Party announced yesterday it would use the potential for spring forest fires three years from now as an excuse to extend its term in office by four and a half months. Opposition Justice, Public Safety and Emergency Services Critic Irfan Sabir (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). The government’s
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