Kong and his films
Kong: Skull Island is the 19th movie in my collection about apes.* Or at least ape-ish creatures (not including those about cave people or yetis). We watched the recently-released Kong: Skull…
October 2017
When a Story Simply Feels Too Good.
It was like throwing raw meat to a school of piranha. A couple of weeks ago a study published in Nature Geoscience had the climate change denialist media (yes, there…
The Ghost of El Caudillo Returns to Catalan
A fellow left a comment here yesterday: “…not unlike Albertans, the Catalonians have bemoaned the fact that as a rich province, they remit more taxes to central government than they…
October 2: 58 people killed at Las Vegas…
Oh, that means Muslim terrorists will never catch up to the rate at which Americans kill each other. 9/11 was the ultimate Muslim terrorist attack, killing some 3,000 Americans. But…
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of October 2, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of October 2, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Breaking the silence
Needless to say, there will be plenty more to discuss about the Wall government has exposed residents of Saskatchewan’s oil patch to avoidable (and sometimes fatal) hazards in order to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joseph Parilla examines how entrenched inequality serves as a barrier to economic development for everybody. – Heather Long highlights how the U.S.’ last…
Cats and beasts #6
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140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 2, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 2, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ontario Superior Court warns federal government it ‘desperately’ needs more judges |…
Positively Trolling Racists on the Web
Racists aren’t smart, and recently their stupidity has been taken advantage of to make the internet a little better. The popular online community Reddit has some parts of the site…
Writers and reading
This post is about, and for writers, for reporters and editors, for book authors and editors, magazine editors, feature writers, layout artists, copy editors and anyone who either fancies themselves…
Will It Be Different?
Jagmeet Singh now leads the New Democratic Party. All three of Canada’s political parties are now firmly in the hands of millennials. Andrew Scheer and Singh are even younger than…
HELP! I NEED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN MEMORY CARE AND LONG-TERM CARE!
Choosing between supportive living options for our elder loved ones can be confusing and overwhelming. Here, guest writer Becky Susko of SeniorAdvisor.com explains all. Thanks, Becky! When exploring long-term care…
The gun lobby are terrorists
Good morning, Your Honour. We appear before you this morning to argue for the proposition that the defendant, the National Rifle Association of America, hereafter referred to as the NRA,…
Spain’s Fascist Assault On The People of Catalonia
Just over a week ago I wrote a post on the Catalonian people's long struggle for independence.And I made it clear I supported their right to determine their own fate…
The problem for political pundits.
While waiting to hear the New Democratic Party leadership tallies yesterday, I was reading what Mainstreet Technology’s Quito Magi had to say about the race. Having worked with Quito in…
Is This Spain’s Brexit?
The Guardian thinks it could be. Officials in Catalonia, the northeast state of Spain, claim a 90% “yes” vote for independence. It might as well have been 60%. A Madrid…
Don’t expect an NDP cold war between Jagmeet Singh’s federal New Democrats and Rachel Notley’s Alberta caucus
PHOTOS: Jagmeet Singh, whose campaign to lead the national New Democratic Party came to a successful conclusion yesterday. (Photo: NDP.ca.) Below: Alberta NDP Leader and Premier Rachel Notley, former Alberta…
We will not be divided.
“We will not be divided” was the message delivered by political leaders in Edmonton and Alberta after an apparent terrorist attack that began with the attempted murder of an Edmonton…