In the ongoing war caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine power plants have been attacked by both sides to hurt military and civilian operations. Beyond the obvious horrors of war the loss of power generation makes heating homes more challenging and people are suffering as a result. As Russia continues
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is the difference between a Last Will and a Power of Attorney? Do I need both?
A Last Will only determines what happens to your property after you have passed. A Power of Attorney is used to appoint someone to manage your property and your medical care if you are incapable. It is no longer valid after death. In some ways, having an Attorney who can
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP executes screeching reversal of plan to stop funding low-income transit pass program
Less than 24 hours after the Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government pulled the plug on low-income transit programs in Edmonton and Calgary, Seniors, Community and Social Services Minister Jason Nixon executed a screeching bootlegger turn this morning and completely reversed course. Seniors, Community and Social Services Minister Jason Nixon, who
Continue readingIn This Corner: The baby girl’s name list 2023, from A to Zrylie
Every year, the government of Alberta does something that even Danielle Smith can’t ruin: the baby name list. I love this list, not only because it is vastly amusing and sometimes shocking, but because it makes for a really easy blog topic. It practically writes itself. The top baby names
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how conservative policies and rhetoric both kill people even looking only at homicides and suicides. Cory Doctorow points out how the conservative impetus to exacerbate inequality has resulted in the housing crisis – including through new means for the wealthy
Continue readingThings Are Good: Bike Lanes are Really Good for Businesses (seriously, there are too many studies proving this)
Bike lanes are good for business and everybody knows it, except for business owners and local politicians afraid for of small minded businesses. Over at Business Insider they’re running an article that summarizes the current knowledge about bike lanes and how good they are. Like anything, there are winners and
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 1, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman surprised after 20-year-old government fines suddenly tank credit score #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/ykhz67w3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: follow the Hamas money
The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protestors are getting paid to protest. Not all of them. But enough of them – enough to raise concerns about the “reality” of what we are seeing on our TV and computer screens, says the evidence and experts. This newspaper first revealed in January that Israel-hating protesters
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment you make in you last will is temporary. That person will eventually need to apply to the court to be
Continue readingThe Daveberta Podcast: Why Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse is running for the Alberta NDP leadership
Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse joins the Daveberta Podcast to share why she is running to succeed Rachel Notley as leader of Alberta’s NDP and why she feels so passionately about protecting and conserving Alberta’s headwaters, strengthening childhood education, and defeating Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party in the next election. The
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Yup. Still Here. Still Need to Clean the Air.
Covid has been implicated in creating more cases of PANDAS – pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. A 9-year-old girl dramatically changed personality after a viral infection she didn’t even know she had! It was only after years of treating her symptoms as a mental health condition that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Patterns – Part 2
In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surrounding changes in the capital-gains attribution rate that the media have fuelled. The same narrative structure seems to be permeating coverage of the widespread campus protests
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: The Perfect Image of Pierre Poilievre
A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly generic campaign image of him enjoying the services of a small business in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The caption read: “Nathan served up just the shot we needed to get us going this morning.” The business’s name, however,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Happy birthday, Daisy!
Daisy Group is 18! We’ve had some great clients and colleagues over those many years, and we’re still growing – with two new Daisy folks hired just this week! Happy birthday to us!
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Megaproject madness
Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Oxford Global Projects has written about proponents getting large undertakings approved by using “strategic misrepresentation” when they conjure up budgets. Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact — lying — in response to incentives in the budget.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Edmonton and Calgary mayors appear gobsmacked by unexpected UCP move to slash funds to low-income transit pass program
Having announced Monday it would spend $9 million cooking up a fanciful provincial railway “masterplan” that includes a public transit component, the United Conservative Party Government yesterday informed Edmonton and Calgary it is ending its contribution to their low-income transit pass programs. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek (Photo: Calgary.ca). The mayors
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Green New Deal: “A socialist plot to take away your ice cream.”
By consensus, climate scientists believe that future restorative actions will be futile if policies followed today are insufficient. In our daily lives, we routinely limit or reduce potential harms. However, elected representatives choose not to apply the precautionary principle if they believe economic interests would be negatively affected.
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