The first World Happiness Report was presented in 2012. This week the 2022 report was published. Perhaps surprisingly, in most nations, average life evaluations have remained “remarkably resilient during COVID-19.” Although, according to report authors, life satisfaction has fallen for the young and increased for people over 60, and levels
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Maggie Mills discusses how an antisocial public health policy in the midst of an ongoing pandemic is producing a disastrous human cost (particularly for vulnerable people), while Pamela Heaven reports on CIBC research showing that even the economy to which people are being
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: The government has plenty of money to address the healthcare crisis. They just won’t
The Ford government re-released its spring Budget this week with a new first quarter fiscal and economic update, providing a little bit more information, albeit from a government with a track record for wildly inaccurate Budget plans. The increases in spending announced are so tiny they can all be
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: There’s No Vaccine for This
A Leger poll finds Canadians aren’t warming to that cold fish, Pierre Poilievre. Another recent poll finds we’re none to fond of the other guy either. Both results are easy to understand. Canadians, it seems, are tired of Justin’s empty platitudes and uneasy at Pete’s radical right rants. Does this
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Trump and His Muppets Play Possum
There was a time they wouldn’t shut up. Now, except for when they’re safely inside some Republican festung, they’re a lot less talkative. Trump showed up to a scheduled deposition today, after repeatedly trying to get out of it. Then he went mute, claiming the protection of the Fifth
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: August 10, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Nearly $1.5 million settlement approved for correctional officers of color who were barred from guarding Derek Chauvin #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3BWse8G – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingKenn Chaplin Oct 26, 1959 – Aug 8, 2022
Just writing to all of you to inform you of the passing of and to say goodbye to one of my past Progressive Blogger members, and political activist Kenn Chaplin; he passed away a couple of days ago. He wrote a blog called “My Journey With AIDS” a while back,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: I love the smell of the rule of law in the morning
If there’s dust, it ain’t settling. The dust stirred up by the FBI’s visit to Donald Trump’s Florida compound, that is. The Right is apoplectic and the Left is ecstatic. Long term, neither are likely to be happy. Certain political and legal realities are at play. Consider these five points:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Timely Reminder
That division exists in our country is undeniable. That there are those amongst us who seek to exploit those divisions is also a fact. Two Star letter-writers remind us to be very wary of such merchants of discord: Poilievre leads candidates in donations, Aug. 3 Uncivil behaviour, unbridled entitlement, a
Continue readingThings Are Good: Use This App to Avoid Shady Companies
Too many companies say they care about an important issue, sponsor events, and then turn around and fund organizations (or politicians) that actively fight the important issue. This behaviour by corporations is unethical and wrong. One person got so sick of companies claiming to be in favour of issues only
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for 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 readingQueer-liberal: Today’s tonic: Andrew Coyne’s “Donald Trump’s rendezvous with reality may be fast approaching”
Today’s tonic: Andrew Coyne’s “Donald Trump’s rendezvous with reality may be fast approaching” #CDNPoli #uspolitics #TrumpCoupAttempt
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Poilievre’s Poison.
It’s not just an American disease. Canada can easily be caught in the same polarization. We are just as liable to see divisions driven into our politics, our families, our friendships and our country as the American mess on our doorstep. And don’t laugh at Donald Trump. Pierre Poilievre could
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Less than meets the eye?
I think Trump Mar-A-Lago “raid” was either: -a major national security scandal about a trove of top-secret documents that Trump was trying to sell to Putin or the Saudis; OR -a Got Junk? cleanup of old presidential souvenirs that the Trumps had been too lazy to box up themselves and
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Her vision inspires … outrage! Fury greets UCP Government prize for essay that calls women best suited as vessels for babies
What were they thinking? If Alberta’s United Conservative Party were a normal Canadian political party, it wouldn’t necessarily have been a bad idea for someone to have the bright idea of asking young women between the ages of 17 and 25 to enter a contest in which there were asked
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: BC’s private power origins
An extensive private power industry was created by Premier Gordon Campbell and friends early in the 21st century. A government that had little regard for nature opened vast areas of wilderness for construction of generating facilities.,,
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: COMMUNICATING WITH LOVE – How to Relax and Chat With Someone with Memory Loss
If you care for someone with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or dementia, you have probably seen this image on social media: I’ve posted it on my Facebook page, The Caregivers’ Living Room and the most common reply is, “That’s all very well, but those instructions are more easily said than
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Pierre Poilievre Finally Losing His Marbles?
Pierre Poilievre is a really kooky person, a really kooky Con, and he has been making some really kooky videos. Like the one where he appeared to make love to a piece of wood, slobbering all over it like he wanted to mount it. Or the the one where he
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