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
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the response to the consensus among climate scientists that we’re headed for climate catastrophe, including the UN’s recognition that there’s no higher-stakes issue for humanity. Matt McGrath, Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt discuss how the oceans are headed for yet another
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 9, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/34d844w8 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Funding Applicable Covid Research
Almost a year ago, the WHO put out a report clarifying the unpredictability of the viral evolution of SARS-CoV-2. But there’s so much that remained unsaid. The report doesn’t mention the economic burden of Long Covid, despite that it’s linked to a worsening labour shortage or costing the US economy
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a Will makes a gift to "my children", does that include adopted children?
Under Ontario law, legally adopted children are generally presumed to have the same rights as biological children for estate purposes. A testator still has the freedom to make gifts and leave inheritances and specify that they are only for certain, specified children, if she chooses, so the question may depend
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If this doesn’t break your heart
…you don’t have one.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Naheed Nenshi’s 2019 letter asking UCP to suspend unionized Calgary employees’ contract rights sparks sharp rebukes
Has Naheed Nenshi just had his reverse chicken salad moment? NDP leadership candidate Gil McGowan, who is president of the Alberta Federation of Labour (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). It was future U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson, then the Senate Majority leader, who astutely observed of Richard Nixon in 1958 that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the consensus among climate scientists that the fallout from the climate crisis looks to include at least 2.5 degrees of global warming. And Jason Hickel comments on the gap in impacts between the wealthy few who are responsible for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Hard Hitting Interview
Say what you will about Piers Morgan, but the following interview is hard-hitting and apt. I can’t imagine North American journalists going after someone in this manner. @QasimRashid Well done by @piersmorgan Piers: How many Hamas have you killed? Israeli spokesman: 14,000 Piers: And how many civilians? IS: IDK Piers:
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 8, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge Merchan ruled that Trump again violated the gag order for the tenth time and threatened to jail Trump if he continued to violate it. #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://tinyurl.com/mup8udv6 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the hidden hand
JERUSALEM – Israel’s government is paying close attention to pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests and rallies happening in Canada and the West – and is very concerned, says a senior Israeli government spokesman. Israel believes what is happening abroad isn’t organic or spontaneous, said Alex Gandler, deputy spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: How Do Child Support Payments Work in Ontario?
The amount of support payable by separated parents in Ontario is strictly governed by the Child Support Guidelines. The Guidelines tables establish basic child support obligations and are based solely on the payor’s income, number of children, and Province of residence. Additional amounts may also be payable to cover special
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: Survivor’s Guilt
After the 2011 election, McGuinty’s job was to go through the painful process of laying off nearly all the staff from the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, which we no longer held, the Whip’s Office, and the House Leader’s Office. Some 200 Liberal staffers in various capacities and
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: More Evidence the WHO is Complicit in Spreading Covid
More damning evidence that the WHO knew that Covid is airborne right from the get-go: Maarten De Cock wrote, “At the time when WHO was assuring the world: “Covid-19 is NOT airborne” a ‘return to office–document for WHO staff in Geneva stated: Ventilation system has been modified – increased volume
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Skin In The Game – A Path to more Ethical Behaviour?
The concept seems straightforward enough.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Environmental action then and now in Alberta – don’t hold your breath waiting for promises to be kept
RED DEER – Alberta has struck a new committee “to help reclaim tailings ponds” in the province’s oilsands, says the headline on a news release published yesterday. Former Alberta environment minister Lorne Taylor (Photo: Screenshot of video found at alchetron.com). There’s something about the wording of that headline that reminds
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Danielle Smith’s power grab(s)
Shortly after becoming premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith expressed her intention to pardon violators of health restrictions. (She referred to the Covid unvaccinated as the most discriminated group she had ever seen in her life.) Then someone whispered in her shell-like ear that premiers don’t have that power, and she
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Life in plastic
One of the more significant subjects I’ve included in my link posts over the past few years is that of plastic contamination. We’re learning more and more about the accumulation of plastic in our bodies and the environment, as well as about a growing list of harms caused as a
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