Are you looking to improve your productivity AND your well being? Then just go walk it off. Walking is a good way to stay fit and have fun, but it’s also a good way to relax your mind. By going for a walk you give yourself space to let the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Patterns
As a regular consumer of media, I find myself more and more looking for patterns. While there is likely no such thing as totally consistent media narratives, I do think a preponderance of print, television and social media frame stories in ways that doubtlessly influence our perception of events.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 29, 2024
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 29, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 29, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Former tabloid executive David Pecker on stand as first witness Toronto police chief asks for OPP review after judge in Umar Zameer trial raised concerns about officer testimony National Enquirer publisher testifies he
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: University Protests and Free Speech – Greg Lukianoff
A common thread that runs through many of the issue around free speech and the freedom of expression in our Canadian society is the application of the rules and making sure they apply to everyone in the same manner. If our institutions could stand up and once again treat equality
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Cell Phones and Cigarettes
I have some concerns with the new rules for schools as reported by the CBC. The biggest concern is that the funding cuts came Friday, but yet another cell phone ban is big news. As a teacher, I hate both cell phones and cigarettes being allowed at schools for so
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Animal crackers
Just a few tweets about animals to enjoy! I’m sure by now the whole world has recoiled in horror after hearing that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem boasted about killing her dog. She really deserves the title “Christ, what an asshole!” Mitt Romney: “I strapped a dog to the roof
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Municipal Government Act already gives the government power to fire councillors – so why fix what ain’t broke?
When then municipal affairs minister Danielle Larivee fired three Thorhild County councillors in 2016, the county’s reeve accused the Alberta NDP of “Soviet-style government.” Former NDP MLA Deron Bilous, who served as municipal affairs minister immediately before Ms. Larivee (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Under the circumstances, this hardly seems fair.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: What is University For – Part 1
In case you’ve missed it, many students on university campuses have been protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The police have been heavy-handed — or outright violent — with some of the students. Yet one prof wrote about his primary concerns in the NY Times: that the constant noise disrupts his class
Continue reading52 Ideas: If we were going to have a serious conversation about the Canadian Economy…
Anyone who knows me, knows that I love to go down rabbit holes. It is a part of my nature to want to know more. Anyone who has spent even a little bit of time with me would not be surprised that an ad spot on a podcast could cause
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: Masters in Hate
What is Columbia University? It’s a university in New York City, of course. It’s also a place that we’ve been hearing a lot about in recent days. It’s symbol of sorts, now. It’s also 36 square acres of hate. Listen to Khymani James, one of the leaders of the group
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Ready to Set up Housekeeping
For several years there have been Mallard duck couple nesting in the Mount Royal cemetery. This morning I was glad to see them there again. They probably aren’t the same couple–ducks don’t have very long lives, and the American Bird Conservancy says they only stay together a season–but it is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Police Accountability
“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial One of the most intriguing books I have ever read in my long reading life is The Trial. The above quotation represents the heart of the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: They know what they’re wearing. They know.
Haven’t written about the keffiyeh because it’s not as important as Jews being terrorized and attacked for being Jews. But I run campaigns, and I know when something has been turned into a symbol that expresses indifference to Jews being terrorized and attacked for being Jews.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Who He Is
You know a man by the company he keeps. Consider this from Althia Raj: Perhaps Poilievre thought he had little to risk when he decided to stop and say hello to an encampment at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, where a group of citizens, surrounded by weathered Canadian and “F—
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Women’s homelessness
I’ve just published Chapter 8 of my open access textbook. This new chapter focuses on women’s homelessness. An English summary of the new chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/womens-homelessness/ A French summary of the new chapter is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/litinerance-chez-les-femmes/ All material related to the textbook can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
Continue readingScripturient: Why Are Canada’s Conservatives Opposed to Everything Good?
Canada used to be known worldwide as a nation of nice people. Canadians were thought of as polite, cheerful, compassionate, caring, respectful, honest, and helpful. We said please and thank you. We opened doors for people. We opened our homes and took in people in trouble. We gave aid to
Continue readingCathie from Canada: "Never Again for anyone" – Discussions about ending the Israel-Hamas War: Shulman, Fox, Alkhatib, Friedman, Ganz, Elbein
Here are some interesting and useful commentaries about the Israel-Hamas War, including some discussion about how it can be brought to an end First, this article is recommended by Eric Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money — at the New York Review of Books, professor David Shulman writes Israel: The
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