The Fort Mac Beast and Our Fiery Future
I've tried to be as positive and as sensitive as possible about the fire that almost consumed Fort McMurray.I've tried to point out all the ways that catastrophe has brought…
May 2016
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page…
Happy Nursing Week to All The Nurses on Team Nick
Over the years, we have welcomed nurses into our family. Community and long-term care nurses are a special breed. They understand teamwork with family and how to make clinical nursing…
Trumping Trump Mexican Style. (In my dreams.)
I’m Canadian. I was born in Canada and I’ve lived here all my life. As such, I probably shouldn’t comment on either American or Mexican politics. But that hasn’t stopped…
The Republican Nomination Circus goes Python
They're comparing Ted Cruz to Monty Python's "Black Knight." The nomination battle may be lost but Cruz loyalists want to wage a social conservative policy fight on the convention floor.Convention…
You Gotta Love It – Scotland + Heatwave
Here's two fine specimens of Scottish manhood bagging a few rays.Scotland - yeah, that place just above England - is having an early season heatwave with temperatures peaking to 26C.…
Jane Jacobs’ Urban Vision Coming to a City Near You
Had urbanist Jane Jacobs lived to be 100, she would have celebrated her birthday earlier this week. Jacobs, a journalist by training, was a champion of people and cities and…
Jane Jacobs’ Urban Vision Coming to a City Near You
Had urbanist Jane Jacobs lived to be 100, she would have celebrated her birthday earlier this week. Jacobs, a journalist by training, was a champion of people and cities and…
Fort McMurray and the New Era of Infernos
By Ed Struzik for The Tyee. A sudden shift in the wind at a critical time of day was all it took to send a wildfire out of control through…
Watch It Unfold, Right Before Your Eyes
This animation produced by Climate Central lets you see how temperatures have warmed since the pre-industrial period. The hardest part is to watch the rate of increase (yellow) during the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Frank examines how market outcomes are shaped disproportionately by luck rather than significant differences in merit:(W)ith each extension of the highway, rail,…
Rachel Notley admits to personally starting Fort McMurray wildfire
EDMONTON – After days of dodging important questions from Rebel Media and uncles’ facebook pages alike, Alberta premier Rachel Notley came clean today and admitted that she intentionally created…
Shaving time
I probably would have stayed with the same brand. But it’s too difficult to match things up. I have two big brand name handles bought in the last year, because…
Hermicity: A Drone-Based City Where Inhabitants Eat Soylent
Hermicity is a proposed community for hermits. The inhabitants would live on their own to cater to their need for isolation, they won’t even need to go to the grocery…
Cuts drive crisis for unpaid women caregivers
Cascading health care cuts are resulting in significant problems for home care patients and their families, seriously undermining the main defense the government makes for its policy of hospital and…
Cuts drive crisis for unpaid women caregivers
Cascading health care cuts are resulting in significant problems for home care patients and their families, seriously undermining the main defense the government makes for its policy of hospital and…
Enemies Of The People
I hardly think that is too harsh a description of both those who park their money offshore to avoid taxes and those who facilitate such evasions. Indeed, an open letter…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact form Wise Law for Tuesday May 10, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on May 10, 2016 at 6:12am…
The Monstrous Ambrose Cons Go After Justin Trudeau’s Mother
I don't know how much lower Rona Ambrose and her monstrous Cons can sink, when they are already wallowing in their own excrement at the bottom of the pit of…
Canadians love for census Star Op-Ed
I’ve a small piece in the Toronto Star today about the census, Canadians reaction to it, and what it says about Canada. You can find it here: Canadians love for…