Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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March 2018
Ontario NDP has no answers for Toronto’s homeless death crisis
Photo by Svetlana Grechkina Toronto’s homeless death crisis is the sort of social catastrophe the Ontario NDP was created to fight. Yet, the current party is offering little in the…
In defense of free speech
Photo by LeWeb14 The “No-platforming” of speakers with whom we fundamentally disagree can suggest that force ought to prevail over speech that is itself regarded as “violent.” This suggestion is…
March 13: a very depressing news day
The fearless newshounds at the irving press today carried a front page story. The New Brunswick government has released a list corporations that looked for favours from it this year.…
You May Have Thought As Much. The Arctic’s Freakishly Warm Winters are Causing Our Freakishly Cold Winters.
Don’t sell that old snowblower just yet. The last three or four years have seen freakishly warm spells in the dark of the Arctic winter. Temperatures 35 degrees Celsius have…
The Tyee Outs Trudeau on the Green Pipeline Scam
Justin Trudeau sticks tenaciously to his story that the Kinder Morgan dilbit pipeline is the price we must pay for a low-carbon Canada. What Trudeau is referring to is his…
Small Claims Court
Under section 23 of the Courts of Justice Act the Small Claims Court has a limited jurisdiction. The CJA provides Small Claims Court has jurisdiction in any action for the…
Small Claims Court
Under section 23 of the Courts of Justice Act the Small Claims Court has a limited jurisdiction. The CJA provides Small Claims Court has jurisdiction in any action for the…
David Frum Thinks He Knows Why Tillerson Got the Abrupt Heave-Ho this Morning
Did Putin order Trump to axe secretary of state Rex Tillerson or does Trump just know his master’s will. Why did Tillerson get the heave ho this morning via Trump’s…
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Tillerson Out. Fired With All the Class Donald Trump Could Muster
In the United States, the Secretary of State is sort of a big deal. He/she is in the president’s inner circle, the “long pants” team. They also become a household…
I ASKED, “WHAT DO OTHERS LIKE ABOUT YOU?”
I’m working on a writing project and looking through old notes. Today, I found this fascinating gem from 2011:Yesterday, I had the most interesting conversation with our son Nicholas. On…
The magic of reading
Can you make sense of those lines in the image to the right? Of course not. They’re deconstructed from the letters of a simple, one-syllable word and randomly re-arranged. It’s…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday March 13, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Mar…
Sears On Ford
In some ways, Doug Ford is like Donald Trump. But, Robin Sears writes, Ontario’s Liberals and Dippers would be wise not to treat Ford the way the Democrats treated Trump:…
Jaywalking Shouldn’t be Illegal
So far in 2018 a car driver has killed a person every week; if this continues Toronto will see yet another year in which more people die from vehicles than…
Seeking Sanctuary
Sometimes, living in Canada’s most populous province is embarrassing. Anyone know a remote mountain top I can retreat to? These letter-writers define my problem: In light of the recent PC…
Doug Ford and the Theocon Conspiracy
We already knew that Doug Ford arranged to get anointed in a church to solidify the support of social conservatives.We knew that he has promised to make it harder for…
See what preferential voting gets you?
Will they ever learn? The Ontario conservatives used preferential voting in their recent leadership race. Yes, they were rushed and used the same foolish system that gave them Patrick Brown…
what i’m reading: brendan’s way by matthew bin
Brendan’s Way by Matthew Bin is a genre-blending journey story combining adventure, mystery, and conspiracy in a futuristic setting. It’s technically science fiction, as it takes place in the future…