Another attack at Waypoint: Action needed NOW
Leadership Table’s 23 recommendations: A start towards preventing workplace violence in health care On August 8, 2017, a patient at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care came out of the…
2017
On the Climate Change Front – Sea Level Rise and Forest-Killing Drought
It’s been known for some time that sea level rise is worse in some areas than in others. America’s eastern seaboard is one example. Now, a study out of the…
Demolishing the Cult of Selfish Individualism
“The cult of selfish individualism.” Those words sound out of place in an election manifesto produced by Theresa May’s Conservative party. And yet an express repudiation of Thatcherite neoliberalism was…
Brad Wall resigns
Me, Brad Wall and Lisa in his office just a few days ago. A huge loss to Saskatchewan and Canada. The most popular politician in the country leaves as he…
Death by Poverty – British Style
I was going to give this one a pass. After all, the United States is the mother lode for really bad societal outcomes from institutionalized inequality and a shredded social…
We Cannot Afford Him
Andrew Coyne writes that, for those who thought — despite his flaws — Donald Trump would be a better occupant of the White House than Hillary Clinton, the truth has…
Derek Fildebrandt caught renting government-subsidized apartment on Airbnb
United Conservative MLA Derek Fildebrandt has been renting his government-subsidized downtown Edmonton apartment on Airbnb, according to a report by one of Postmedia’s Edmonton newspapers. MLAs who live outside of…
The Late Show, by Michael Connelly, tops Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List this Week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Aug. 6, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Right here: live-reporting the Your Ward News-Canada Post hearing
As you know, a panel is reviewing Minister Judy Foote’s (appropriate, proper) decision to order Canada Post to stop delivering the neo-Nazi rag, Your Ward News. Yesterday was day two…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday August 10, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. Everyone who applies in Ontario for a Certificate of…
The Ugly Hidden Face of the Con Messiah Andrew Scheer
Ever since his grotesque campaign to attack Justin Trudeau by trash talking Canada blew up in his face, Andrew Scheer has been desperately trying to repair his image. Gone with…
eBird App is Helping us Understand Birds
eBird is a mobile app that has been around for a few years and used around the world. As a result the app has been used to collect a rich…
On that Hamilton police investigation into the PCs: there is none
This, from CBC: Hamilton police are looking into a complaint about a Progressive Conservative nomination meeting marred by allegations of ballot box stuffing. But the service has yet to decide…
Alberta Conservative fraud?
Decide for yourself: A United Conservative Party MLA says there’s nothing wrong with him subletting his downtown Edmonton apartment while claiming thousands of dollars in rent from the public purse.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Leonhardt looks at the glaring growth of inequality in the U.S., while Matt Bruening charts how that trend is based entirely…
Jagmeet’s ‘means test.’
It is a trap that more and more New Democratic Party spokespeople are falling into. By denying universality of programs, they think they are attracting voters from the right. They…
Anything happen while I was away?
After writing the last post on August 6, I decided to forgo using the Internet for a few more days. Being exposed to negativity and hatred daily will take a…
The Late Show, police procedural by Michael Connelly, tops Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Aug. 6, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Trump in the Time of Trumpism
“Trailer of Globalization” by Piotr Mamnaimie We live in an “age of anger”, to borrow the title of a recent book by Pankaj Mishra – an India-born public intellectual well…