Today is a day I thought I’d have to wait at least a few years for. Sure I had hoped that this day would come sooner than later but given the person involved with it, it wasn’t likely to come. Yet here we are, on the first day in the
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Does Canada Need a Head of State
From Twitter Adrian Harewood @CBCAdrianH 23 Jan Why in 2021 is a Canadian Prime Minister, the leader of a #G7 nation, still reporting to a #Queen who doesn’t live in his country and has never lived in his country? #JuliePayette #JustinTrudeau
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: A COVID Wake Up Call in the Form of a Chart
Do you believe it’s already the last week of January? This year seems to be moving fast so far and it hasn’t been that great. As was pointed out to me this morning in a radio appearance I made, this is the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Talking COVID and the Return of Parliament on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the return of Parliament in Ottawa for the first time in 2021, the continuing crisis of COVID-19, the pressures on the government regarding vaccine shortages, how all
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Brumby writes about the multiple growing disruptions to economic health and security which could be addressed by a wealth tax. – Kim Siever highlights how the oil industry continues to scam Alberta while pretending that its interest is that of the province
Continue readingScripturient: Why Saunderson Should Resign Now
Imagine an issue so important, so utterly non-partisan that both the National Post and the Toronto Star — two newspapers of widely divergent politics, perspectives, and ideology — agreed. That issue is that municipal politicians running for higher office should resign from their municipal roles on council. But our own
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Erin O’Toole’s Still Massive Far Right Problem
If Erin O'Toole thought he could solve the Cons far right problem by expelling the ugly bigot Derek Sloan, he must be sorely disappointed, or seriously deluded. For although it must have been painful to expel Sloan after having cuddled and protected him for so long. If he thinks he
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Making Government Work
Joe Biden has talked a lot about unity. But, E.J. Dionne writes, unity is being overtaken by urgency: Senate Democrats won their 49th and 50th seats in Georgia’s two runoff elections earlier this month, which gave them the majority thanks to Vice President Harris’s tie-breaking vote. This meant that the
Continue readingThings Are Good: Burning Iron: An Eco-Friendly Brewing Process
Swinkels Family Brewers in the Netherlands recently adopted a new way to heat their brewing process: melted iron. And it’s arguably sustainable. It’s not as weird as it sounds. Essentially iron dust is set alight, which burns in a contained system and produces heat (which is used to hear water
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, January 25, 2021
‘Stay in place’ measures are necessary to prevent Covid spread, but what are we doing to REALLY get at the largest volume of Covid deaths – ie. with the nation’s elderly? So far, tossing cash at greedy operators doesn’t seem to be doing the trick.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of January 25, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of January 25, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 25, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 25, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Enough is enough’: Toronto issues 75 weekend charges for lockdown violations Toronto anti-lockdown Adamson Barbecue owner asks court to lift bail condition on social media Trump pardons former top strategist Steve Bannon, says
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trudeau’s chance to kill TransMountain!
It’s no secret. If U.S. president Joe Biden can cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, why cannot Justin Trudeau cancel twinning of the TransMountain pipeline? The single line can still be used to ship fully refined petroleum products to the U.S. west coast states and to Vancouver. We should face the
Continue readingThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 67: Senator Paula Simons and Alberta Unbound
Independent Alberta Senator Paula Simons joins the Daveberta Podcast to discuss what it is like to represent Albertans in the Canadian Senate during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss the second season of Senator Simons’ podcast series, Alberta Unbound, and she shares her thoughts on the role of the Senate
Continue readingAlberta Politics: How much of the pipe that was supposedly ready to build Keystone XL is fit only for scrap?
Alberta is unlikely to recoup much of its $1.5-billion loss on the Keystone XL Pipeline by selling off unused pipe now that the Biden Administration has pulled the plug on the megaproject. At any rate, it’s hard to believe much of the pipe will be good for anything but scrap
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Albertans support net-zero by 2050, but …
A recent survey by Janet Brown Opinion Research, commissioned by the Pembina Institute, showed some encouraging attitudes of Albertans toward climate change. For example, two-thirds of those surveyed support the goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Albertans are not impressed by their government’s fight-back strategy in defending Alberta’s
Continue readingScripturient: Saunderson’s Role in Blocking the Hospital Redevelopment
During the previous council’s four years (2014-18), I documented the aggressive efforts to stall the local hospital’s desperately-needed redevelopment by a group of those on council (aka The Block*). Every other municipality in the region enthusiastically supported the hospital’s plan; only this group on Collingwood council put up roadblocks. And
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: THE MUSIC BETWEEN US: Memoir of a Bedside Musician
I am always fascinated by stories of personal transformation. How does anyone achieve redemption, wisdom, grace and meaning after experiencing or witnessing prolonged suffering? I’m especially interested when those stories come from caregivers. Steve Litwer is a volunteer guitarist for patients in hospice care. His book, The Music Between
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On root causes
Shorter Scott Moe on threats against Dr. Saqib Shahab: I have no idea how these idiots got the idea that policy disagreement entitles you to engage in violent rhetoric and personal harassment. Shorter Scott Moe’s CO2Anon donor base: Environmentalists are child molesters! But the good news is that I think
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