An Ever-Widening Disparity
The Mound had a post today on the ever-widening disparity between the earth’s wealthiest and the rest of the world. The statistics are shocking: 82% of the global wealth generated…
January 2018
Let Me Tell You Just What You Really Are
The truth (science) can often be far stranger than fiction (religion). Here’s a fine example. Religion likes to tell you that we were just plopped here by some divine being,…
DO FAMILIES BELONG IN HEALTH CARE?
If you have ever been in the same room with your loved one and a health care professional, you’ll know that it’s disorienting. I say that because it’s like going…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2018-01-22 17:24:00
The Council launches online petition to say Donald Trump isn’t welcome to visit Canada Sign Here
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2018-01-22 16:41:00
Longing for the waves of summer…
We Exposed Sockeye Salmon to Diluted Bitumen. Here’s What We Found.
Amid continued controversy, Kinder Morgan is poised to break ground on its $7.4 billion Trans Mountain Expansion Project. When the pipeline is complete, it will triple the volume of diluted…
How Oil Lobbyists Pressured Canada to Allow Drilling in a Marine Park
Sharks, sea turtles, corals, wolffish — the 1,200 kilometre Laurentian Channel off the southwest coast of Newfoundland is home to tremendous biodiversity. And that’s the reason it’s set to become…
Bullshit and hypocrisy again
You have to hand it to our Deputy Mayor: for all his many, many faults, he does do two things remarkably well: hypocrisy and bullshit. Neither does he do in…
Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous And Possibly Fatal Condition
As you know Donald Trump somehow managed to pass his first medical check-up as president.And although some suspect the fix was in, even aced a cognitive test designed to reveal…
This Is a Disease, One That Kills
This is the world that the leaders of the West have created: 42 people hold as much wealth as the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorer half of…
Column: when the Internet becomes a mob
In the social media era – in our mad rush to judgment – people get ground up and spat out. Happens all the time. Happens too often. Ask Aziz Ansari,…
Democracy Depends On It
Michael Harris has watched Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Post, the story of The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers. He writes: When the Washington Post printed the…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of January 22, 2018
140Law: Here are out Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of January 22, 2018. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 22, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 22, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Less than half of recent law grads had good jobs waiting for…
Working Less for a Better World
Do you feel like you’re working too much? You are. Decades ago economists and influential thinkers projected that leisure would be the biggest problem during the 21st century for the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elizabeth Kolbert comments on the psychology of inequality, and particularly how the current trend in which a disproportionate share of gains goes to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Hightower writes about the importance of a popular movement to build the policy foundation for middle- and working-class prosperity. And Doug…
Ontario votes in June.
While political pundits have obviously thought long and hard on Ontario Premier Wynne’s possible political problems this spring, I doubt her main concern is misogyny. Nobody is mad at her…
Go figure! St. Albert report claims city will need 10 more cops because marijuana will soon be legal!
PHOTOS: St. Albert’s iconic City Hall. Below: St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron, City Councillor Ken MacKay, anti-smoking lobbyist Les Hagen, and former mayor Nolan Crouse. ST. ALBERTA, Alberta An arresting…