How did we screw up this planet, our one and only, so thoroughly in just one lifetime? No, this isn’t about greenhouse gases or global warming. It’s about a new study looking at chemical contamination, a different sort of tipping point. From The Guardian: The study concludes that chemical pollution
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: The collapse of American power – And the National wimps that are the Liberals and Conservatives of Canada – especially those wimps who are buddies of the U.S.
I’m hoping this works. It’s an opinion piece of a sort. The U.S. has, for twenty years, has held – and constantly torured – prisoners using the base called Guantanamo. The prisoners are from Afghanistan. Think about that. Most are not killed – worse – they have been constantly tortured
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Boss Ford and the Snowmageddon
The big snow storm came rushing up from the south, it hit Toronto hard, and for a while it made getting around much of the city difficult and dangerous. To make it easier for those who couldn't stay at home, the police sent out this message: We don't know if Doug Ford
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: January 18, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: What the latest royal family announcement means for Prince Andrew #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Kuodi et al. find some hopeful evidence that vaccinations may help to prevent long COVID symptoms as well as more acute ones. Nili Kaplan-Myrth rightly questions why safety is being treated as a privilege to be withheld from vulnerable people. And
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Have You Heard of the 15 Minute City?
A 15-minute city built from scratch in North America will ensnare inhabitants to a handful of suppliers. Is that what we want? The post Have You Heard of the 15 Minute City? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Unthinking Hordes
H/t Greg Perry As a student of human behaviour, one of the things this pandemic has made abundantly clear to me is that a significant number of people are ill-equipped to think. Whether through a lack of education or the sometimes cruel play of genetics, there are those amongst us
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Year Ahead
2022 is well underway and it is perhaps time to look ahead to what the year has in store for the Canadian Monarchy. The Platinum Jubilee As detailed in my other post today Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee will be marked this year in some manner. My understanding is that official events will start
Continue readingThings Are Good: How to Free Yourself from Gas at Home
When it comes to emissions we often think of cars and factories, but we can’t ignore the impact we can make at home. In much of the northern hemisphere houses are built with infrastructure supporting the burning of non-renewable fuels which destroy the planet. The decisions made by people who
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Circular Firing Squad
The Democratic Party is forming a circular firing squad. Paul Waldman writes in The Washington Post: Faced with voting rights legislation felled by Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-Ariz.) devotion to the filibuster, Manchin’s destruction of the Build Back Better social infrastructure bill and the likelihood of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Largest Black Hole in the Universe – Size Comparison
Well if you ever needed to know your level of cosmic importance…
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Platinum Jubilee News
We are officially in the 70th year of Her Majesty’s reign.While events won’t likely get started till the summer I wanted to go over what we know so far. Event Funding The Department of Canadian Heritage opened applications for funding in November. I know that the manager of theAlbert County Museum applied for funding.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: On NATO all parties agree—follow orders without question
NATO flag flies in Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, July 2017. Photo courtesy the Presidential Administration of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons. NATO’s proponents often claim it’s a democratic force, but in Canada’s case the alliance highlights the hollowness of our democracy. A healthy polity requires
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Government Giving in to Greed.
It’s the greed that keeps on growing. Premier Doug Ford wants Ontario to step up its gambling. If the pandemic keeps the casinos closed, feel free to try your luck on-line. What is your pleasure? Casino games, blackjack, craps, poker, pai gow, roulette and slot machine simulations or new sports
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Kenney benches Justice Minister Kaycee Madu after revelation he phoned Edmonton police chief about traffic ticket
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney put his justice minister on the bench last night after a CBC story revealed one of the first things Kaycee Madu did after a traffic cop handed him a $300 distracted driving ticket for talking on his cellular phone as he motored through an Edmonton school
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Andrew Nikiforuk Takes Jordan Peterson to the Woodshed for a Damn Good Thrashing
I’m sure that quite a few of us have had our fill of the rightwing dandy and pompous git, Jordan Peterson. Recently JP attempted to revive his flagging celebrity with an op-ed in, where else, the National Post, “Open the damn country up, before Canadians wreck something we can’t
Continue readingwmtc: we movie to canada: wmtc’s annual movie awards is retired, replaced with best-of list
Last year, I realized that the new format of my annual movie awards was problematic. Beginning with 2018-19, rather than grouping movies by rating (all the 5s together, all the 4s together, and so on), I started listing all the titles alphabetically, showing the rating for each. As a personal
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: "Social Murder" – How the Wealthy and Politically Connected are Engineering Ecological Collapse
Why do our governments, elected to office by ordinary citizens, abet those who would harm us? Chris Hedges accuses them of “social murder.” It’s mass murder. The global catastrophe that awaits us, already baked into the ecosystem from the failure to curb the use of fossil fuels and animal
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: January 17, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Novak Djokovic loses chance to defend Australian Open title as court upholds deportation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anthony Fernandez-Castaneda et al. examine the long-term neurological and cognitive damage caused even by “mild” cases of COVID. Sally Cutler discusses the implications of the Omicron COVID variant remaining transmissible longer than previously assumed even as governments and employers are adamant about forcing
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