Assorted content to end your week. – Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens and Sean Tucker discuss how the corporate fossil fuel sector is blocking workers from pursuing sustainable jobs as part of a just transition. And Kate Yoder writes that there’s an entirely plausible basis to hold big oil accountable for
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 19, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge orders shared custody of pet dog under new B.C. law #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4xz7j6k5 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: They Sing As One.
Quite predictably, the rich have reacted with great bitterness to the new budget, in particular the part requiring them to pay more tax on capital gains that exceed $250 thousand. To hear their tune, sung in unison, financial Armageddon is upon the country. A chorus of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Let’s Talk About Data Quality For a Moment
The recently released Cass Review Final Report (Cass Review) has criticized the absence of “high quality evidence” supporting the use of puberty blockers to treat transgender youth (as well as in other areas of transgender research). The systemic reviews performed as part of the Cass Review applied a “modified” version
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2024-04-19 09:59:00
Eric Perez and his wheelchair bound blind daughter Rut Perez who has cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy, unable to speak or feed herself murdered in cold blood in her wheelchair. And on Oct 8 pictures of thousands of Palestinians dancing in the streets celebrating the terrorist attacks. I have
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 20, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 20, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Will Microsoft’s Surface be the Tablet for Lawyers https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-microsofts-surface-tablet-shames-pc.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Johannes Brahms – Complete Liebeslieder Walzer Op. 52 and Op. 65
How tough could singing a Waltz be? Brahms: Hold my beer!
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Planned provincial police to be called Alberta Rangers? Brace yourselves for more Conservative cowboy cosplay!
Did a little birdie just chirp in my ear that the United Conservative Government has already picked out a name for the new provincial police force it claims it hasn’t yet decided whether or not to set up? Officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police in 1900 – slated along
Continue readingcentre of the universe: A Terrible Time
This must be a terrible time to be a bookkeeper, accountant, or tax prep person. Especially in the prairies. I’ve heard horror stories from our auditor at work of people showing up on their doorstep with a couple of ExMas orange boxes and a garbage bag full of “receipts”, handing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maanvi Singh reports on the corporate purchase of water rights in Arizona which signals the diversion of the necessities of life to the highest bidder once greed and mismanagement have undermined their availability. – Drew Anderson writes about the similar water crisis
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 18, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: CRA paid out $37M to tax scammers, unsealed affidavit alleges #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/bdhk5fbf – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Perhaps They’ll Ease Their Pain With A Free Cup Of Coffee?
Well, Tim Horton’s has done it again – disappointed their customers. Of course, that’s nothing new, but I’m not referring here to the mediocre coffee that is inexplicably a national icon. Nor am I referencing their disturbing and bizarre forays into food innovations they have no business experimenting with. There
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: How important is it to have a Last Will if you are in your 30s?
Having a Last Will is still important, even if you are young. There is no better way to provide for your family and your future. You can create a Last Will to plan ahead for a time when you have increased assets or a larger family. Now is always a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Nova Scotia Medical Professionals Deny Evidence Based Medicine.
This isn’t going to go well for them. Link to the BMJ article.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: "Protect the rich" is NOT going to catch on
Yeah, lots of financial press whining in the last 2 weeks about how raising taxes on the rich or on corporations would be so unfair & so awful — but “protect the rich!” just isn’t going to cut it as a #BaloneyFactory slogan. — Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Manufactured ignorance
Many readers of IN-SIGHTS examine public issues with great care and email private comments to me along with links to worthwhile material. What follows comes from a paper sent to me by a long-time follower North Van’s Grumps, fellow blogger at Blog Borg Collective. The complete paper shown below is
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Budget ’24
Now about my tax dollars. Finance Minister Freeland tabled her 2024 budget Tuesday and, by and large, I approve. The signs are about right: the NDP non-committal and the Conservatives screaming. Some random thoughts on bits that caught my attention: A hefty slice for housing—$8.5 billion in new spending—is much
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Douglas, Lewis, Broadbent, and Layton spinning in their graves?
This item, contributed by a reader, comments upon BC Hydro now offering a ten to fifteen billion dollar commitment to private power producers. This continues Gordon Campbell’s aim of twenty years ago: PRIVATIZATION BY STEALTH.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: 10 reasons to be optimistic
It’s easy to get depressed these days. Whether you are Jewish or not, we live in a depressing, difficult time. Tuesday night‘s outrage was yet more of the same: foul-mouthed Hamasniks blocking a major road and railway crossing in Toronto’s West end – pushing at police officers and likening them
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jenna Wenkoff discusses how “ethical oil” is purely a (risible) marketing concept rather than any meaningful description of actual fossil fuel operations, while Chris Russell discusses how the tar sands’ environmental disinformation is even worse than people assume. Ian Urquhart writes that the
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