In Plato’s dialogue Gorgias, Socrates debates with three sophists — Gorgias the rhetorician and his pupils Polus, and Callicles — about justice, power, morality, and virtue. Socrates also questions the value of oratory and rhetoric — the crafts of the sophists — in contemporary politics and whether they do good
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My 2022 so far
1. Winter bike can’t bike in winter2. Heat pump can’t generate heat in cold3. Snowblower can’t blow snow in snowstorm The universe is sending a message to Warren. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 17, 2022 The post My 2022 so far first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Northern Trump
Susan Riley writes that Trumpism has infected Canadian politics: Something strange has been happening in Canadian politics since the Trump contagion to the south. Voters elect a mostly reasonable, often affable, Member of Parliament only to discover, as they watch their MP climb the leadership ladder, that they are
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the Week of January 17, 2022
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Continue readingThings Are Good: People Live Longer in Non-Profits
The COVID pandemic has revealed problems in our society which we will need to fix. Thankfully researchers are identifying what problems are fixable by looking for the cause. Long term care homes (LTCs) are one such area of our society that we can improve, and do so very easily too.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 17, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 17, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Lawyer accused of sending harassing emails to BigLaw opponents had previously filed abortion lawsuit CDC adds Canada to highest-risk travel list B.C. Supreme Court rules Amanda Todd’s name can be reported during upcoming
Continue readingwmtc: most useless and annoying advice ever: it’s cheaper if you make it yourself
I did not make this myself. Ever since moving to Canada, people have been telling me how I could make something myself for less money than I paid for it. Curtains, chair coverings, scarves. Kitchen gadgets. Dog needs. Skin care products. And food of all types. You can make that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky
It’s time to organize against the gender religion. I’ve got the book… somewhere. One of the worst feelings in the world is to know you have the book in question, but cannot find it. So here is a quick summary I found on the web. “According to Alinsky,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: ‘Twin Peaks’ and the end of history
Kyle MacLachlan plays FBI Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks: The Return. Photo courtesy Showtime. Oh now it’s gone, gone And I am who I am Who I was, I’ll never have the chance Running out of sand —Eddie Vedder, “Out of Sand” The original Twin Peaks, a mystery-horror television
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : It’s a ‘Tear Down”?
Oh, how easy it is to cast aside our history. Don’t get me wrong but Ottawa is a nice city. That is all that it is. It is just a nice city. It has interesting neighbourhoods, burgeoning suburbs and some bad architecture. It just fails to impress anybody as the
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: A Kenney Style Fireside Chat
On radio, [Franklin D Roosevelt} was able to quell rumors, counter conservative-dominated newspapers and explain his policies directly to the American people. His tone and demeanor communicated self-assurance during times of despair and uncertainty.—Wikipedia Roosevelt used radio, a “nascent media platform” to explain complex issues such as the Great Depression,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why The Anti-Vaxxers Will Now Have To Behave Themselves
When I saw the anti-vaxxers marching down the waterfront last summer, with their kooky Con signs and their crosses, at first I didn't take them seriously. All I wanted to do was laugh at them, and maybe even douse them with a bucket of cold water. But when I saw
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Don’t just blame the anti-vaxxers, blame our political elites too
Justin Trudeau has chosen to place all of the blame on the unvaccinated for the current spike in cases and hospitalizations. The problem is, this is only a half-truth. It is political scapegoating. The other half of the problem is Trudeau himself – and the rest of Canada’s political elites
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread (facilitated by people relaxing their prevention efforts) batters already-struggling health care systems. And Ingrid Torjeson discusses a new study from
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: KINSELLACAST 193: Mraz, Agar! Health and happiness! Dirty Nil! Ultra Q! Divorce Party!
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Continue readingwmtc: welcome to the world, asher
This beautiful little human is Asher, the newest member of our family. Asher joins Sophia in the next generation, the child of one of my nephews and niece(-in-law)s. My brother and sister(-in-law) now have two grandchildren, and my mom has two great-grands! Asher was born on January 13 in
Continue readingIn This Corner: Do not put your trust in Rotten Tomatoes
So here we are in the deepest, darkest pit of winter. It’s the time of year when we ask ourselves the existential question – why in God’s name do I live in this country? So what to do to lift our spirits? How about a movie! That will lift our
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : The Dilettante Departs.
Rod Phillips always struck me as a dilettante in business and in politics. I guess I thought of him as former Metro Toronto Chair and newspaper mogul, Paul Godfrey’s protégé. He was also always on the good side of the Lastman family. He piloted the late Mel Lastman through a
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The China challenge
A view of Chongqing Central Business District from across Jialing River. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned their sights on China. University of Victoria professor emeritus and historian John Price examines the rise of the
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