A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly generic campaign image of him enjoying the services of a small business in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The caption read: “Nathan served up just the shot we needed to get us going this morning.” The business’s name, however,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: First we take Manhattan
Student encampment at Columbia University. Photo courtesy Columbia Students for Justice for Palestine/X. There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA. There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD. At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Happy birthday, Daisy!
Daisy Group is 18! We’ve had some great clients and colleagues over those many years, and we’re still growing – with two new Daisy folks hired just this week! Happy birthday to us!
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Megaproject madness
Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Oxford Global Projects has written about proponents getting large undertakings approved by using “strategic misrepresentation” when they conjure up budgets. Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact — lying — in response to incentives in the budget.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Edmonton and Calgary mayors appear gobsmacked by unexpected UCP move to slash funds to low-income transit pass program
Having announced Monday it would spend $9 million cooking up a fanciful provincial railway “masterplan” that includes a public transit component, the United Conservative Party Government yesterday informed Edmonton and Calgary it is ending its contribution to their low-income transit pass programs. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek (Photo: Calgary.ca). The mayors
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 readingCanadian Dimension: Kagarlitsky the irrepressible
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left, by Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky. Published by Pluto 2024. Copyright © Pluto Press 2024. For more information, visit www.plutobooks.com. All hyperlinks that appear in the text were
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 readingCanadian Dimension: Budget 2024 is a small step toward a grown-up economy
Photo by Ken Teegardin/Flickr The latest federal budget has provoked outrage among some of the wealthiest people in the country. They regard a change to the way we tax capital gains as an attack on their excessive, unearned wealth and the power it confers. To defend their concentrated control over
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
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