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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.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 30, 2024
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stan Cox writes about the looming eco-collapse – and its connection to a relentless focus on top-heavy “growth” with no regard for well-being or sustainability. – Dharna Noor reports on the U.S. House oversight committee’s investigation showing how the oil industry has
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Me in Newsweek on Columbia U. haters
Here: Similarly, consultant Warren Kinsella said: “At the firm I founded 18 years ago, and in the war rooms I’ve run for the past 31 years, I’ve employed hundreds of young people. I’ll never again hire one from @Columbia.” According to his website, Kinsella previously founded the Daisy Consulting Group.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 30, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Harmful and discriminatory’: Ontario school board investigating video showing comments staff member made towards student wearing a keffiyeh #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/mssd8tsw – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingThings Are Good: Packing Potential Power: Better Batteries Blasting Baselines
Source: Ziegler and Trancik (2021) before 2018 (end of data), BNEF Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook (2023) since 2018, BNEF Lithium-Ion Battery Price Survey (2023) for 2015-2023, RMI analysis. The baseline power that a battery can deal out is increasing at a faster rate than anticipated. This s-curve of growth reflects
Continue readingScripturient: On the Bay’s Libertarian Piffle
Less (sic) taxes is, for On the Bay‘s publisher David Loopstra, a “solution” for the problems of inflation. It’s certainly not the solution for correct grammar, where he should have written fewer taxes or the phrase “less in taxes.” You can only get away with saying less if the noun
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFactof the Day: Returning to work from maternity or parental leave
Can an employer significantly change your job duties while you are on parental leave? Pursuant to the Employment Standards Act, in most cases, an employee who takes pregnancy/parental leave is entitled to return to the same role or a comparable role the employee had before the leave began, or a
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Elites in the Global North are scared to talk about Palestine
A banner reading “UCLA Says Free Palestine” adorns the encampment walls at Royce Quad at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 25, 2024, Westwood, California. Photo courtesy Santa Monica Mirror. Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Who Would Replace Him?
There’s lots of talk these days about Justin Trudeau resigning. Michael Harris writes: With Trudeau having notched three electoral victories since 2015, nobody is going to push him out — at least not yet. After all, with a handsome face and a famous name, he took the Liberals from political
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Resources In Canada for Fighting Transgender Ideology.
Become aware of the people that are on the front lines trying to bring society back to reasonable place. https://www.cawsbar.ca/ http://www.genderreport.ca http://www.ourduty.group/canada
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Minimum wage increases, job destroyers or job creators?
AAccording to MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu, a bountiful supply of good jobs is the best way to generate shared prosperity and also to cultivate civic and political participation from the broad cross-section of society. But organizations that regularly appear in corporate media are paid to oppose the concept of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The NDP leadership campaign so far: pretty boring, and seriously distracting when the UCP is running wild
The worst thing about the seemingly endless Alberta NDP leadership race isn’t that it’s boring, although it is. NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). It’s that the NDP Caucus in the Legislature appears to be totally distracted by it at a time the United Conservative Party Government
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Occupational hearing loss
We dined recently at an “upscale casual” restaurant in Port Coquitlam. The service and the food were fine, but I was troubled by the noise level. My iPhone decibel meter calculated an average of 86 decibels with a peak level of 95 dB reached often. While the noise level I
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 29, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario to ban use of cellphones in school classrooms starting in September #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yc5tx2d7 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingThings Are Good: Walking Increases Wellbeing and Productivity
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 readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the Infant-fada’s winners and losers
Who benefits from these metastasizing campus encampments? Who loses? The losers are easy to spot. They’re the families who scrimped and saved and borrowed to send junior to an Ivy League school – only to learn that he/she/they have adopted Yasir Arafat’s fashion stylings, and are sleeping through final exams
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 29, 2024
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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