3 Great Career Choices for Caring People and Caregivers
It is my pleasure to host this guest post today about career training for caring professions. I’ve blogged before about how caregivers can re-purpose their home based experience to enter…
2016
Resist Arrest
No one likes to be arrested. Sometimes people use strong language in response to being arrested. Some people are very rude on being arrested. While imprudent (you should always be…
Letter to the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry Re: Overall Benefit Permits to Destroy Species at Risk Habitat in the Proposed Maley Drive Extension Corridor
The following is a copy of a letter submitted to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry in response to a posting on the Environmental Registry for comments on ER…
3 Great Career Choices for Caring People and Caregivers
It is my pleasure to host this guest post today about career training for caring professions. I’ve blogged before about how caregivers can re-purpose their home based experience to enter…
Resist Arrest
No one likes to be arrested. Sometimes people use strong language in response to being arrested. Some people are very rude on being arrested. While imprudent (you should always be…
Canada Isn’t Immune to Trump-ism
By Sarah Boon from Watershed Moments. In the days following the U.S. election, two former Canadian ambassadors to the U.S. had some advice for Canadians worried about the future of…
Dec. 5: The most contemptible, lying……….
…. piece of journalism I have ever seen. This story is so contemptible, I have put it in its own box. Look below for the THE STINKER in capital letters.…
Elizabeth May Wins, I Guess.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if the amended Green Party position on Israel and the Palestinians meets with Elizabeth May’s scorn or approval. The resolution, passed…
There’s Still Climate Denial?
This is from a local climate change group, Hamilton 350: But even better is the list of sources the post included: I swear, if I didn’t block the trolls I’d…
There’s Still Climate Denial?
This is from a local climate change group, Hamilton 350: But even better is the list of sources the post included: I swear, if I didn’t block the trolls I’d…
Liberal Democracy’s Unstoppable Decline
Throughout the western world, the public embrace of liberal democracy is growing weaker, more distanced. Like many of these fractured paradigms today, there’s a distinct generational aspect at play. Put…
That Totally Weird Anti-Carbon Tax Rally
While I am in the mood to dispense political advice, my next pro tip goes out to Wildrose leader Brian Jean, who was a featured speaker at Ezra Levant’s totally…
We get letters: another Trump troll picks up a crayon and writes in
From “weasel,” using weasel@huha.com at 24.36.21.45. American spelling. Anyone care to find him? You are simply a weasel who barks “fascist” and “racist” at your political enemies because you got…
You know what? I think my brilliant wife should run for city council
What do you think?
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David MacDonald examines how Canada’s tax expenditures systematically favour higher-income individuals over the people who actually have a reasonable claim to public support:…
No shortcuts: Jane McAlevey on organizing that can transform unions and society
Today’s epsiode was recorded live at an event with union organizer and author Jane McAlevey in Toronto last week to launch her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in…
Brexit surprise ahead for Trudeau Liberals if they break electoral reform promise
The Trap of Broken Promises We’ve seen in the UK, USA and now Italy, just how out of touch ruling elites are with the discontent bubbling below the surface of…
Maybe Chris Hedges Has a Better Name for It.
Our prime minister has proclaimed Canada the “first post-national state.” Economist James Galbraith prefers the term “predator state.” To Chris Hedges, it’s the “mafia state.” Systems of governance that are…
Brexit surprise ahead for Trudeau Liberals if they break electoral reform promise
The Trap of Broken Promises We’ve seen in the UK, USA and now Italy, just how out of touch ruling elites are with the discontent bubbling below the surface of…
Top Ten Legal Headlines
Here are our top 10 legal headlines from last week. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Dec 5, 2016 at 7:43am PST – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…