Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Blanketed cats.
April 2017
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #23
Girl: Do you have this book, something like, “keeping a secret about you”? Me: Let’s take a look in the catalogue. Hmm, do you mean Keeping You a Secret? Girl:…
The Unfairness of Caregiving
I’ve been trying to remember the first time I felt the outrage of injustice. I recall that in about grade four, I was playing outside my school when the bell…
Hay Day Cheats allows you get more diamonds
Hay Day is among the most prominent complimentary to play video games on the App Shop, however it’ll cost you a package in application purchases if you’re not careful. Right…
Canada On Precipice of ‘Huge Step Forward’ For Environmental Assessments
Hope may finally be in sight for fixing Canada’s environmental assessment process, after a four-member expert panel released a promising report on the heels of consultations in 21 cities across…
Retreat From the Sea. Okay, But to Where?
Over the course of this century, many millions of coastal-dwelling Americans will be uprooted by sea level rise and forced to head inland. There’s a term for that, IDP, or…
The Next Climate Change Epidemic
It’s potentially lethal and it’s spreading to workers throughout Central America. It’s a mysterious kidney disease attacking labourers. Scientists have identified certain key themes. The majority of people with the…
There Once Was a Difference Between Liberal and Liberal
For years I would instinctively point out that there was a huge difference between British Columbia’s Liberal Party, our perpetual provincial government, and the federal Liberal Party. To me there…
Falling On Your Sword Can Remedy Even The Worst PR Disaster
Now in HuffPo, here. Per the old saw, it’s the cover-up, and seldom the break-in: Such mistakes can have profound consequences, if you don’t deal with them quickly. Personally, I…
France’s Left Presidential Candidate Melenchon Rising Rapidly in Polls
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18867:France%27s-Left-Presidential-Candidate-Melenchon-Rising-Rapidly-in-Polls Filed under: Uncategorized
Germany’s Left Must Find a New Strategy to Stop the Rise of the Right
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18879 Filed under: Uncategorized
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law Toronto for Tuesday April 18, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Can an employer lawfully terminate an exceptional employee who…
Trudeau Dissected: A Guest Post By Pamela MacNeil
In response to yesterday’s post on Justin Trudeau, frequent contributor Pamela MacNeil left the following response, which I am taking the liberty of featuring as a guest post today: Bill…
#ONpoli, and the false god of anonymous sources
So, there’s a Toronto Star story this morning about Kathleen Wynne’s political future. By my count, it has five sources in it who are quoted directly, but not named. There…
Get Water from Air by Using a Windtrap
In Frank Herbert’s book Dune the inhabitants of a desert planet collect water using giant “windtraps,” now we can do the same on earth. Researchers at MIT have built a…
Housing Market…Hot, Hot, Hot!
This morning Mayor John Tory was interviewed by CBC regarding the current state of Toronto’s housing market. When asked what he could do as the Mayor in order to assist…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bill McKibben highlights Justin Trudeau’s disingenuousness in pretending to care about climate change while insisting on exploiting enough fossil fuels to irreparably…
Another Huge Disappointment
I cannot imagine that, these days, Pierre would applaud Justin’s performance. Trudeau the Elder famously said that living next to the United States was like sleeping with an elephant. But…
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
William Shakespeare is a writer for most human experience. You could not help but think of that line from A Midsummer Night’s Dream the other day reading a commentary on…
Samuel L. Jackson Unleashes a Little "Pulp Fiction" Before Tuesday’s Georgia Vote
It’s expected to be a close race in Georgia’s 6th District Congressional Special Election. Samuel L. Jackson used a bit of Pulp Fiction magic to stir Democrats to get out…