On 16 December 2021, mandate letters for Canada’s federal ministers were made public. The letter for Canada’s Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion contains an important set of marching orders. I break it down in this ‘top 10’ blog post: https://nickfalvo.ca/the-minister-of-housings-mandate-letter/
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Things Are Good: One Way Maritimers can Drastically Reduce their Energy Consumption
Canada’s Maritime provinces are blustery, cold, and powered by coal. The weather is fine for most people (and lovely in the summer), but they know they need to transition to renewable energy quickly or risk losing more land to the seas and worsening storms due to climate change. The work
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology Doesn’t Make Sense – Robert Jensen
When one takes time to examine the arguments put forward by the gender religious it quickly becomes obvious that past verbal intimidation and name calling, not many debatable points exist. “That’s the way feminists have used the terms since the 1970s, as they challenged patriarchal claims that men’s domination and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Train-Wreck That is Gender Legislation in Canada – Meghan Murphy
Do you think referring to a man as a she/her is stupid? Yeah, well you may have to watch your step and bite your tongue in Canada or face the consequences. Write your MP and get them started on amending these laws to include a lick of common sense.
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Canada will be back … eventually
Way back in 2015, flush with election victory, newly minted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced “Many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world over the past 10 years. Well, I have a simple message for you: on behalf of 35 million
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian Bill C-36 will Silence Women – Much to the Delight of Men
Mia Ashton writes on Canadian Bill C-36 and its implications for women and feminists who have taken up the mantle of defending female rights and boundaries in Canadian society. “There is the same complete lack of understanding surrounding this proposed hate speech legislation. Most people in Canada are not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Enshrining The Muddle – Conversion Therapy Ban Bulllshite in Canada
From the Canadian Government’s news realease – “The legislation proposes four new Criminal Code offences that would prohibit: causing another person to undergo conversion therapy removing a minor from Canada to subject them to conversion therapy abroad profiting from providing conversion therapy advertising or promoting conversion therapy The proposed legislation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Transracephobia Deployed Against Carrie Bourassa – Appalling!
The New York Post reports: “A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.”
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: COVID-19 PSA
A virus cannot mutate if it cannot incubate. We know how to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but we conflate and complicate perceived rights and freedoms w/ public health mandates and related precautions. No one has the right to infect others. No one has the freedom to be infected by
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Canada’s ongoing betrayal of Haiti
In this webinar, viewers discuss the film Haiti Betrayed with director, Elaine Brière, and the current Haitian situation with activist Jennie-Laure Sully. The webinar was hosted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg on Nov. 13, 2021. Background In 2004, Canada collaborated with the U.S. and France to overthrow Haiti’s elected president, Jean
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The COP26 Climate Summit and Greta Thunberg
The COP26 Summit, like other climate initiatives will be remembered as yet another paving stone laid on the path of collective good intentions by the nations of the world (excluding Russia and China…). “GLASGOW, Scotland — Climate activist Greta Thunbergsaid Friday that the COP26 climate summit is a failure, lambasting
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: More supportive housing for semi-independent seniors
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives asked me for a ‘big idea.’ I wrote about the need for more supportive housing for semi-independent seniors. Here’s my submission: https://nickfalvo.ca/more-supportive-housing-for-semi-independent-seniors/
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Today in Female Erasure – Doctors Worried About Pregnant People…
This from CBC Kamloops. A nice bit of female erasure to start your day. It would seem our national news broadcaster has mysteriously misplaced the common knowledge that only women have the capacity to be pregnant. This is blatant female erasure from the public sphere, and it must be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Excerpt From Trans Ideology and the New Ptolemaism – Kathleen Lowrey
Kathleen Lowrey is one the few and the brave women inside the University of Alberta that manage to retain an authentically feminist outlook. Furthermore, her criticisms of the new gender ideology are spot on and her insights are useful in understanding the ontology of transactivism in academic and real-world settings.
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Compared to Americans, Canadians are happy campers
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed striking differences in Americans’ and Canadians’ attitudes toward their political, economic and health systems. The Pew survey of 17 advanced countries showed the U.S. consistently among the most dissatisfied and Canada among the least. For instance, a full 85 percent of
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: A 13-city scan of homelessness planning
I’ve just written a 13-city scan of homelessness planning across Canada. A summary of the report is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/innovation-in-homelessness-system-planning-a-scan-of-13-canadian-cities/
Continue readingThings Are Good: Pandora Papers Resonate in Canada
The Pandora Papers were released just last week and they are already having in impact in Canada. The non-profit Canadians for Tax Fairness is pushing the recently elected politicians to get on closing loopholes and exploits that only the rich get to use. All parties support tax reform to address
Continue readingThings Are Good: Refugees Who Helped Snowden Landed in Canada
Edward Snowden did a very brave thing of exposing how the American government spies on its citizens, foreigners, and allied nations. Thanks to his efforts the web is now a safer place from spying by large corporations and governments. When Snowden needed help fleeing from the long spying arm of
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The death graph
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. It’s true for me anyway. Maybe it’s my engineering background, but charts, graphs, etc. often make a point much more effectively for me than words. Such is the case with the death rates from COVID-19 in Canada. The number of deaths
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Post Election Calls For Electoral Reform
In the wake of voting for our 44th Parliament, there are numerous calls out there to move Canada to some form of Proportional Representation (PR). I am sympathetic to these calls for reform – our current system of elections really does not give us a government that reflects the diversity
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