And Now, a Word From Betty Bowers
Mrs. Betty takes a look at America’s prosperous gun industry
October 2017
INNOVATION: USING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT WORKING CAREGIVERS
A couple of weeks ago, an article about a new caregiving technology for families caught my eye. BookJane is a Toronto based app available across Canada. It’s a platform that…
Climate Change Planning At Its Very Worst
Who knew? Miami has a nuclear power plant. Miami has a nuclear power plant that’s right on the waterfront, a few feet at best above normal sea level. Miami’s Turkey…
BREAKING: Site C Dam $600 Million Over Budget, Will Miss River Diversion Timeline, Says BC Hydro CEO
BC Hydro’s new CEO Chris O’Riley has written a letter to the B.C. Utilities Commission stating that the crown corporation will not meet the timeline for river diversion for the…
Thank you to every Canadian MP
Here. The pro-Russia group denies any connection to the Kremlin, but lawmakers say the push fits a pattern of Moscow-backed interference in the West. And they say that the lobbying…
So Many Mass Shootings, So Little Time
Chances are you’re really not up to date on America’s amazing national legacy – mass shootings. Well, good news. Help is on the way. The good folks at the Washington…
Five Ways We’re Killing Our Oceans.
It’s easily done. Most of it is out of sight, out of mind. Some of it happens hundreds, thousands of miles offshore. Some of it simply cannot be seen. When…
Abortion and politics, apparently
Apparently PC MPP Lisa MacLeod invoked my name in a scrum over at Queen’s Park this morning. Apparently it came up because she was denouncing the abortion-related trap the Ontario…
The Most Dangerous Mental Illness
What if Donald Trump genuinely believes his own lies? What if he sincerely believes he’s doing a great job as president, better than any president in the history of the…
Europe First But We’ll All Get There Eventually
When it comes to climate change, Canada’s political caste of all stripes and persuasions, is solidly united. Liberal, Conservative and NDP, they all believe in talking about it as little…
Collingwood’s first postliterate council
At the Corporate & Community Services standing committee meeting this week, the committee discussed the Art on the Street festival, its operation and management to be taken over by the…
TransCanada Cancels Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
Canadian pipeline company TransCanada announced today it will no longer be proceeding with its proposed Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects. “After careful review of changed circumstances, we will…
More on the Ford Park thing
I’ve stated my view: I thought it was a kind gesture on John Tory’s part. That said, Doug Ford – Who I don’t dislike! We’ve had a few laughs together!…
Energy East Pipeline ist Kaput
Trans Mountain has thrown in the towel. There’ll be no Energy East bitumen pipeline. The company claims it will take a billion dollar hit. Tough sh#t. New Brunswick premier, Brian…
Cats and beasts #9
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The Tryanny Of The Minority
Once again, voices have been raised, clamouring for gun control in the United States. And once again, E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann write that those voices will…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday October 5, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For an Ontario will to be valid, it must…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Trish Garner offers some suggestions for evidence-based poverty reduction – with a strong emphasis on the need for employers to pay a…
Andrew Scheer and the Con War On Women
From the moment he was named Con leader, Andrew Scheer has been building an inner circle of religious fanatics like this country has never seen before.Almost half the members of…
New column day
Here, on the Saskatchewan Party’s choice to poison our province rather than coming clean about the dangers of sour gas. For further reading…– I’ll link again to the reports from…